Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Band 2author., 1794 - 240 Seiten |
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... business or common amusements , and we find at laft that we have fuffered our purposes to fleep till the time of action is past , we are reproached only by our own reflections ; neither our friends nor our enemies wonder that we live ...
... business or common amusements , and we find at laft that we have fuffered our purposes to fleep till the time of action is past , we are reproached only by our own reflections ; neither our friends nor our enemies wonder that we live ...
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... business , though I received a very good education . Having loft my father and mother as foon as my education was finished , I could not help thinking that what had served us all three , would , undoubt- edly , edly , be fufficient for ...
... business , though I received a very good education . Having loft my father and mother as foon as my education was finished , I could not help thinking that what had served us all three , would , undoubt- edly , edly , be fufficient for ...
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... business or traffic , the most agreeable to me , till my daughter was fix and twenty ; with the other five fhe was to be invefted on her being of age . I was , however , only to enjoy the use of my five thousand during the ftipulated ...
... business or traffic , the most agreeable to me , till my daughter was fix and twenty ; with the other five fhe was to be invefted on her being of age . I was , however , only to enjoy the use of my five thousand during the ftipulated ...
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... business ; and he cheerfully complied with my propofals , as the ftock advanced by me would be of confiderable advantage to him . In this manner I obeyed my dear deceased friend's injunctions , and made an honeft old fer- vant of his ...
... business ; and he cheerfully complied with my propofals , as the ftock advanced by me would be of confiderable advantage to him . In this manner I obeyed my dear deceased friend's injunctions , and made an honeft old fer- vant of his ...
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... business.- Very well , faid the mafter ; but pray what do you call your bufinefs ? To take care of the horses , and clean and drive the coach , replied Jehu.- You say right , answered the master , and I do not expect you to do more than ...
... business.- Very well , faid the mafter ; but pray what do you call your bufinefs ? To take care of the horses , and clean and drive the coach , replied Jehu.- You say right , answered the master , and I do not expect you to do more than ...
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Beliebte Passagen
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 45 - Look'd through ? or can a part contain the whole ? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee ? II.
Seite 190 - Or aught Thy goodness lent. 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.
Seite 190 - Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe. If I am right, Thy grace impart...
Seite 150 - She was dressed in black, her skin was contracted into a thousand wrinkles, her eyes deep sunk in her head, and her complexion pale and livid as the countenance of death. Her looks were filled with terror and unrelenting severity, and her hands armed with whips and scorpions.
Seite 167 - In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand, Law in his voice, and fortune in his hand : To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign. Through him the rays of regal bounty shine, Turn'd by his nod the stream of honour flows, His smile alone security bestows...
Seite 232 - ... to the loiterer, who makes appointments which he never keeps; to the consulter, who asks advice which he never takes; to the boaster, who blusters only to be praised; to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the...
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.
Seite 232 - ... who whines only to be pitied; to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances; to the usurer, who compares the different funds; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking.