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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... true , for she had kiffed her in her coffin . ANECDOTE of BISHOP BURNET . BISHOP Burnet was famous for that abfence of thought which conftitutes the character which the French call l'etourdie . All the world knows , that in Paris ...
... true , for she had kiffed her in her coffin . ANECDOTE of BISHOP BURNET . BISHOP Burnet was famous for that abfence of thought which conftitutes the character which the French call l'etourdie . All the world knows , that in Paris ...
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... true hap- piness . In this dilemma , the mind is perpetually toffed , like a veffel without a rudder on the boif- terous ocean . It is ftill hurried on , by the gales of paffion , in pursuit of fomething untried , which is is fuppofed ...
... true hap- piness . In this dilemma , the mind is perpetually toffed , like a veffel without a rudder on the boif- terous ocean . It is ftill hurried on , by the gales of paffion , in pursuit of fomething untried , which is is fuppofed ...
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... true contentment and lafting peace . We are fatisfied with those bleffings which the munificent Author of our being has fhowered upon us , and are moft folicitous to make fuitable returns for his unmerited bounty . In this fituation of ...
... true contentment and lafting peace . We are fatisfied with those bleffings which the munificent Author of our being has fhowered upon us , and are moft folicitous to make fuitable returns for his unmerited bounty . In this fituation of ...
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... true , but did their beft . - Mrs . Pritchard , instead of taking up with fuch fare as the country afforded , laughed fo loudly and inceffantly at the bufinefs of the fcene , that the country audience were offended . Somebody present ...
... true , but did their beft . - Mrs . Pritchard , instead of taking up with fuch fare as the country afforded , laughed fo loudly and inceffantly at the bufinefs of the fcene , that the country audience were offended . Somebody present ...
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... True gentleness , like an impenetrable armour , repels the most pointed fhafts of malice : they can- not pierce through this invulnerable fhield , but fall hurtlefs to the ground , or return to wound the hand that shot them . A meek ...
... True gentleness , like an impenetrable armour , repels the most pointed fhafts of malice : they can- not pierce through this invulnerable fhield , but fall hurtlefs to the ground , or return to wound the hand that shot them . A meek ...
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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.