Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Band 5

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Pub. for J. Hinton, 1749
 

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Seite 251 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here; And hold their manhoods cheap, while any speaks, That fought with us upon saint Crispin's day.
Seite 224 - Said a formal non-con, (whose rich stock of grace Lies forward expos'd in shop-window of face) Ah! pity your soul: come, be of our sect: For then you are safe, and may plead you're elect.
Seite 9 - Apply your study to such hours as your discreet master doth assign you, earnestly ; and the time I know he will so limit as shall be both sufficient for your learning and safe for your health. And mark the sense and the matter of that you read, as well as the words.
Seite 228 - I seldom see a noble building, or any great piece of magnificence and pomp ; but I think how little is all this to satisfy the ambition, or to fill the idea, of an immortal soul...
Seite 186 - A wig, with hanging quite grown grey ; A curtain, worn to half a stripe ; A pair of bellows, without pipe ; A dis"h, which might good meat afford once ; An Ovid, and an old Concordance ; A bottle-bottom, wooden platter, — One is for meal, and one for water.
Seite 155 - In fo doing, you may fecure to yourfelf many bleffings in this world, as well as a fure expectation in the next. There is one thing which, I perceive, you have not yet thoroughly purged yourfelf from, which is flattery : you have...
Seite 228 - Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
Seite 129 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Seite 251 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Seite 218 - You go further : you teach our self-love to anticipate the applause which we suppose will be paid by posterity to our names : and with idle notions of immortality you turn other heads besides your own ; I am afraid this may have done some harm in the world.

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