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... sure to leave very little true taste . - Burke . XX . A man's self gives haps or mishaps even as he order- eth his heart . - Sir P. Sidney . XXI . Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility , because the ...
... sure to leave very little true taste . - Burke . XX . A man's self gives haps or mishaps even as he order- eth his heart . - Sir P. Sidney . XXI . Repentance is a magistrate that exacts the strictest duty and humility , because the ...
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... sure none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it ; his own reason is the certain measure of truth ; his own knowledge , of what is possible in nature ; though his mind and his thoughts change every seven years , as well as his ...
... sure none ever did nor ever can shoot better or beyond it ; his own reason is the certain measure of truth ; his own knowledge , of what is possible in nature ; though his mind and his thoughts change every seven years , as well as his ...
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... sure we have no right to deprive him of that security . But if the few pounds of flesh were not necessary to his se- curity , we had not a right to detain the unfortunate debtor , without any benefit to the person that confined him ...
... sure we have no right to deprive him of that security . But if the few pounds of flesh were not necessary to his se- curity , we had not a right to detain the unfortunate debtor , without any benefit to the person that confined him ...
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... sure to part with them in the danger , but not in the honour ; and to venture a sure estate in present , in hope of a better in future , is mere madness ; and great men forget such as have done them service , when they have obtained ...
... sure to part with them in the danger , but not in the honour ; and to venture a sure estate in present , in hope of a better in future , is mere madness ; and great men forget such as have done them service , when they have obtained ...
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... Sure , he , that made us with such large discourse , Looking before , and after , gave us not That capability and godlike reason , To fust in us unused . CCLXVIII . Shakspeare . It is not the quantity of the meat , but the cheerful ...
... Sure , he , that made us with such large discourse , Looking before , and after , gave us not That capability and godlike reason , To fust in us unused . CCLXVIII . Shakspeare . It is not the quantity of the meat , but the cheerful ...
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Page 311 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 294 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide : To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 109 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 239 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 47 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 248 - My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. Two hundred to adore each breast: But thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state; Nor would I love at lower rate.
Page 114 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
Page 15 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 300 - Now the bright morning star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.
Page 258 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.