Shells from the Sands of TimeBickers and Son, 1876 - 243 Seiten |
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Seite 191 - The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclosed : or, An Universal History of Apparitions, Sacred and Profane, under all Denominations ; whether Angelical, Diabolical, or Human Souls Departed.
Seite 128 - Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who...
Seite 175 - Now melt with pity, now with anguifh thrill, Thy moral page while virtuous precepts fill, Warm from the heart, to mend the Age...
Seite 98 - The terrors, pains, and early miseries, Regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused Within my mind, should e'er have borne a part, And that a needful part, in making up The calm existence that is mine when I Am worthy of myself!
Seite 45 - Legation) to give three different excitements to the practice of virtue ; that men, as he finely adds, of all ranks, constitutions, and educations, might find their account in one or other of them ; something that would hit their palate, satisfy their reason, or subdue their will.
Seite 176 - But that a man before whom the two paths of literature and politics lie open, and who might hope for eminence in either, should choose politics, and quit literature, seems to me madness.
Seite 149 - The art of medicine is thus divided amongst them : each physician applies himself to one disease only, and not more. All places abound in physicians ; some physicians are for the eyes, others for the head, others for the teeth, others for the parts about the belly, and others for internal disorders.
Seite 185 - ... of a bad king, and an active solicitor in a most corrupt court. His character was injured by his associations. Ten years before, or ten years later, he would have made a much better figure.* But was I to begin my book ten years earlier or ten years later for William Penn's sake? The Quakers were extremely civil. So was I. They complimented me on my courtesy and candor.
Seite 192 - An Essay on the history and reality of Apparitions ; being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not ; as also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits, and how we ought to behave to them.
Seite 188 - At this feaft the Earl of Warwick was fteward ; the Earl of Bedford, treafurer ; the Lord H aft ings, comptroller, with many noble officers fervitors.