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For when the mind is in contemplation of revenge , all its thoughts must surely be
tortured with the alternate pangs of rancour , envy , hatred , and indignation ; and
they who profess a sweet in the enjoyment of it , certainly never felt the ...
For when the mind is in contemplation of revenge , all its thoughts must surely be
tortured with the alternate pangs of rancour , envy , hatred , and indignation ; and
they who profess a sweet in the enjoyment of it , certainly never felt the ...
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The poets make use of this metaphor when they would describe nature in her
richest dress , for beauty is never so lovely as when adorned with the smile , and
conversation never sits easier upon us , than when we now and then discharge ...
The poets make use of this metaphor when they would describe nature in her
richest dress , for beauty is never so lovely as when adorned with the smile , and
conversation never sits easier upon us , than when we now and then discharge ...
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I am fearless in my behaviour , and never fail of putting your bookish sort of
fellows , your men of merit , forsooth , out of countenance . I triumph when I see a
modest young woman blush at an assembly , or a virgin betrayed into tears at a
well ...
I am fearless in my behaviour , and never fail of putting your bookish sort of
fellows , your men of merit , forsooth , out of countenance . I triumph when I see a
modest young woman blush at an assembly , or a virgin betrayed into tears at a
well ...
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The king in a little time purchased for madam Scaron those lands that carry the
name of Main ; tenon , a title which she from thąt time has taken , Never was there
an instance of any favourite having so great a power over a prince , as what she ...
The king in a little time purchased for madam Scaron those lands that carry the
name of Main ; tenon , a title which she from thąt time has taken , Never was there
an instance of any favourite having so great a power over a prince , as what she ...
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Nevertheless , the minister never makes a proposition to the king , but his majesty
turns towards her , and says , “ What think you , madam of this ? ' She expresses
her opinion after a modest manner ; and whatsoever she says is done . Madam ...
Nevertheless , the minister never makes a proposition to the king , but his majesty
turns towards her , and says , “ What think you , madam of this ? ' She expresses
her opinion after a modest manner ; and whatsoever she says is done . Madam ...
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Seite 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Seite 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Seite 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Seite 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Seite 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
Seite 91 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Seite 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
Seite 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
Seite 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Band 16 The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Alexander Chalmers |
| Autor/in | British essayists |
| Herausgeber | Alexander Chalmers |
| Veröffentlicht | 1802 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Juni 2007 |
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