... with the hope of pity the wretch who despairs of comfort. Of this number is he who now addresses you : yet the solace of complaint and the hope of pity are not the only motives that have induced me to communicate the series of events by which I have... Select British Classics - Seite 801803Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1752 - 674 Seiten
...1 wifh that others may efcape perdition ; and am therefore lolicitous to warn them of the path tlut leads to the precipice from which I have fallen. I am the only child of a wealthy farmer : wlio as he was himfirlf illiterate, w»» U i'-t 6 1 0 The hiß er у the more zealous to make his... | |
| 1788 - 326 Seiten
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| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 430 Seiten
...calamity: I wish that others may escape perdition ; and am, therefore, solicitous to warn them of the patli that leads to the precipice from which I have fallen....success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to de'ny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...rather to increase than mitigate anguish, as it recollects every circumstance of distress and imbitters the memory of past sufferings by the anticipation...himself illiterate, was the more zealous to make his 8on a scholar ; imagining that there was in the knowledge of Greek and Latin, some secret charm of... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...that others may escape perdition ; and am, therefore, solicitous to warn them of the path that lead* to the precipice from which I have fallen. I am the...zealous to make his son a scholar ; imagining that there wai in the knowledge of Greek and Latin, some secret charm of perpetual influence, which as I passed... | |
| 1823 - 304 Seiten
...rather to increase than mitigate anguish, as it recollects every circumstance of distress, and imbitters the memory of past sufferings by the anticipation...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending... | |
| 1823 - 324 Seiten
...rather to increase than mitigate anguish, as it recollects every circumstance of distress, and imbitters the memory of past sufferings by the anticipation...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 686 Seiten
...of future : yet, like weeping, it is an indulgence of that which it is pain to suppress, and soothes with the hope of pity the wretch who despairs of comfort....success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 Seiten
...solace of complaint and the hope of pity, are not the only motives that have induced me to communieate the series of events by which I have been led on in...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 338 Seiten
...future ; yet, like weeping, it is an indulgence of that which it is pain to suppress, and soothes, with the hope of pity, the wretch who despairs of...success, and supply new resources to disappointment. But not being able to deny himself the pleasure he found in having me about him, instead of sending... | |
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