Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments; Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 1author, 1794 - 1078 Seiten |
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... ( answered the son ) to seek out a friend , and I can occafionally produce fifty , all patterns of true friendship . " " Son , ( anfwered the merchant ) make not too free with fo facred a name ; have you forgot the trite adage ? You must ...
... ( answered the son ) to seek out a friend , and I can occafionally produce fifty , all patterns of true friendship . " " Son , ( anfwered the merchant ) make not too free with fo facred a name ; have you forgot the trite adage ? You must ...
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... answer proved a farther incitement to the impatient inclinations of the notary . " Afk him , " fays he , " to give in a specific account of his debts , and inform him that a person who interefts himself in his welfare will undertake the ...
... answer proved a farther incitement to the impatient inclinations of the notary . " Afk him , " fays he , " to give in a specific account of his debts , and inform him that a person who interefts himself in his welfare will undertake the ...
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... answered the prince , " of eight forts : Of a prudent vifier ; of a general ; of a good fecretary , who understands and can write perfectly well the languages of the eaft ; of a phyfician confummate in the art of heal- ing , and in the ...
... answered the prince , " of eight forts : Of a prudent vifier ; of a general ; of a good fecretary , who understands and can write perfectly well the languages of the eaft ; of a phyfician confummate in the art of heal- ing , and in the ...
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... answer further increased his Lordship's curiofity , and he defired to know in what fenfe he was mafter of the parish ? " I am , " answered he , " the master of the children of the parish ; the children are mafters of the mothers ; the ...
... answer further increased his Lordship's curiofity , and he defired to know in what fenfe he was mafter of the parish ? " I am , " answered he , " the master of the children of the parish ; the children are mafters of the mothers ; the ...
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... answer for their mifconduct . One of the heroes fteps forward , and fays , Sir , the lady , wearing artificial colour on her cheeks , we looked upon as fair game . " Sir Wil- liam's reply , and his fubfequent conduct , did honour to his ...
... answer for their mifconduct . One of the heroes fteps forward , and fays , Sir , the lady , wearing artificial colour on her cheeks , we looked upon as fair game . " Sir Wil- liam's reply , and his fubfequent conduct , did honour to his ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 48 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Seite 8 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Seite 190 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 190 - Let not this weak unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 189 - What conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue.
Seite 59 - I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures.
Seite 8 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Seite 25 - ... than the care of the pilot, whom it was always in our power to choose among great numbers that offered their direction and assistance.
Seite 8 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Seite 45 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.