The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... called upon the major by name to in- terpose and save him from being murdered . This was no sooner done than the cudgeller , who was a sturdy clown , gave us to understand , that he had been doing no more than every Englishmen has a ...
... called upon the major by name to in- terpose and save him from being murdered . This was no sooner done than the cudgeller , who was a sturdy clown , gave us to understand , that he had been doing no more than every Englishmen has a ...
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... called a life of pleasure , the whole system must undergo a revolution , and be administered upon other principles and to other pur- poses : I know the world too well to commit my- self to it , when I have more than my own conscience to ...
... called a life of pleasure , the whole system must undergo a revolution , and be administered upon other principles and to other pur- poses : I know the world too well to commit my- self to it , when I have more than my own conscience to ...
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... called ) of the world , is in many people's notions a proscribed animal ; a'silly idea prevails that she is to lead a husband into certain ruin and disgrace : parents in general seem agreed in exerting all their influence and authority ...
... called ) of the world , is in many people's notions a proscribed animal ; a'silly idea prevails that she is to lead a husband into certain ruin and disgrace : parents in general seem agreed in exerting all their influence and authority ...
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... called a history of the human understanding within a period peculiarly favourable to the production of genius ; and , though I cannot expect that my labour will in the end fur- nish any thing more than what every literary man has stored ...
... called a history of the human understanding within a period peculiarly favourable to the production of genius ; and , though I cannot expect that my labour will in the end fur- nish any thing more than what every literary man has stored ...
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... called At- tica ; but that happily for king Ogyges , being a person of gigantic stature , he survived the general calamity . A period of one hundred and eighty- nine years succeeded to this food , in which this province remained so ...
... called At- tica ; but that happily for king Ogyges , being a person of gigantic stature , he survived the general calamity . A period of one hundred and eighty- nine years succeeded to this food , in which this province remained so ...
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Seite 48 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Seite 116 - Hill, Smit with the love of sacred Song; but chief Thee Sion and the flowrie Brooks beneath That wash thy hallowd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Seite 205 - Echo my lord, and lick away a moth: But your fine elegant rascal, that can rise, And stoop, almost together, like an arrow; Shoot through the air as nimbly as a star; Turn short as doth a swallow; and be here.
Seite 246 - Oh woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee To temper man : we had been brutes without you ! Angels are painted fair to look like you : There's in you all, that we believe of" heaven ; Amazing brightness, purity and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Seite 205 - mongst clods and clodpoles, here on earth. I muse, the mystery was not made a science, It is so liberally profest ! almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or sub-parasites.
Seite 205 - But your fine elegant rascal, that can rise, And stoop, almost together, like an arrow; Shoot through the air as nimbly as a star; Turn short as doth a swallow; and be here, And there, and here, and yonder, all at once; Present to any humour, all occasion; And change a visor, swifter than a thought!
Seite 278 - Nay, my good friend, but hear me, I confess Man is the child of sorrow, and this world, In which we breathe, hath cares enough to plague us, But it hath means withal to soothe these cares, And he, who meditates on other's woes, Shall in that meditation lose his own : Call, then, the tragic poet to your aid.
Seite 203 - I am pleased t'unmask a public vice. I fear no strumpet's drugs, nor ruffian's stab, Should I detect their hateful luxuries: No broker's, usurer's, or lawyer's gripe, Were I disposed to say, they are all corrupt. I fear no courtier's frown, should I applaud The easy flexure of his supple hams.
Seite 303 - Only preserve me from the law, kind Gods, And I will thank you for my poverty. Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, And he's of men most wise, who bears them best.
Seite 235 - And convoy'd by huge bowls of frumenty, That with their generous odours scent the air. — You stagger me to tell of these good days, And yet to live with us on our hard fare, When death's a deed as easy as to drink. If your mouth waters now, what had it done, Could you have seen our delicate fine thrushes Hot from the spit, with myrtle-berries cramrn'd, And larded well with celandine and parsley, Bob at your hungry lips, crying — Come, eat me!