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... opinion , sufficiently excuse me from making any apology for the impertinence of this letter . The great desire I have to embellish my mind with some of those graces which you say are so becoming , and which you assert reading helps us ...
... opinion , sufficiently excuse me from making any apology for the impertinence of this letter . The great desire I have to embellish my mind with some of those graces which you say are so becoming , and which you assert reading helps us ...
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... opinion of it . A great au- thor of our time has set this in an excellent light , when , with a philosophic pity of human life , he spoke of it in his Theory of the Earth in the following manner : For what is this life but a circulation ...
... opinion of it . A great au- thor of our time has set this in an excellent light , when , with a philosophic pity of human life , he spoke of it in his Theory of the Earth in the following manner : For what is this life but a circulation ...
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... opinion upon any occasion whatsoever . A painful silence has hitherto gained him no farther advantage , than that as he might , if he had behaved himself with freedom , been excepted against but as to this and that particular , he now ...
... opinion upon any occasion whatsoever . A painful silence has hitherto gained him no farther advantage , than that as he might , if he had behaved himself with freedom , been excepted against but as to this and that particular , he now ...
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... opinion . It is absolutely in your power to dispose of 6 MADAM , " Your most obedient servant , 6 SYLVIA . ' ' You do me great honour in your applica- tion to me on this important occasion ; I shall there- fore talk to you with the ...
... opinion . It is absolutely in your power to dispose of 6 MADAM , " Your most obedient servant , 6 SYLVIA . ' ' You do me great honour in your applica- tion to me on this important occasion ; I shall there- fore talk to you with the ...
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... opinion of the friendship of companions . Thus is affection and every other motive of life in the gene- rality rooted out by the present busy scene about them they lament no man whose capacity can be supplied by another ; and where men ...
... opinion of the friendship of companions . Thus is affection and every other motive of life in the gene- rality rooted out by the present busy scene about them they lament no man whose capacity can be supplied by another ; and where men ...
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Page 145 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 221 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 130 - ... that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Page 221 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 128 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud hut many of...
Page 222 - ... if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering : if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep : if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate; then let mine arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Page 129 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 130 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. "At length," said I, "show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.
Page 134 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
Page 158 - ... as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit any French phrases from becoming current in this kingdom when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable.