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... live for ever , ( if they escape being stifled in modern affected ornament ) , is merely this , that they are really compositions of melody and harmony united , or rather that their melody is harmony . I mean the simple tunes sung by a ...
... live for ever , ( if they escape being stifled in modern affected ornament ) , is merely this , that they are really compositions of melody and harmony united , or rather that their melody is harmony . I mean the simple tunes sung by a ...
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... live without the ounce of silver , and so perhaps will have some advantage in settling the price . But these discussions . I leave to you , as being more able to manage them . Only , I CHAP . III . * There is not in the Jewish law any ...
... live without the ounce of silver , and so perhaps will have some advantage in settling the price . But these discussions . I leave to you , as being more able to manage them . Only , I CHAP . III . * There is not in the Jewish law any ...
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... lives . This is a fresh instance ; for , by letters just received , I find that I was about the same time chosen President of our American Philosophical Society , established at Philadel- phia † . " I * Of the Edinburgh Philosophical ...
... lives . This is a fresh instance ; for , by letters just received , I find that I was about the same time chosen President of our American Philosophical Society , established at Philadel- phia † . " I * Of the Edinburgh Philosophical ...
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... live on the mountains , nor houses , to dwell in huts . great elegance of form is consistent with being exposed to the sun and wind of summer , and with being smoked like bacon , in the winter , I do not understand ; nor how great ...
... live on the mountains , nor houses , to dwell in huts . great elegance of form is consistent with being exposed to the sun and wind of summer , and with being smoked like bacon , in the winter , I do not understand ; nor how great ...
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... lives * . The Letters on the * Savage * Dr DAVID DOIG was the son of a small farmer in the county of Angus . His father died when he was an infant ; and it was his good fortune that his mother entered into a second marriage with a ...
... lives * . The Letters on the * Savage * Dr DAVID DOIG was the son of a small farmer in the county of Angus . His father died when he was an infant ; and it was his good fortune that his mother entered into a second marriage with a ...
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Page 225 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
Page 225 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, creator of heaven and earth?
Page 210 - He therefore that is about children should well study their natures and aptitudes, and see by often trials what turn they easily take, and what becomes them...
Page 115 - I'll make my men break ope his fences, Ride o'er his standing corn, and in the night Set fire on his barns, or break his cattle's legs : These trespasses draw on suits, and suits expenses, Which I can spare, but will soon beggar him.
Page 82 - And yet there remains among that people so much respect, veneration, and affection for Britain, that, if cultivated prudently, with a kind usage and tenderness for their privileges, they might be easily governed still for ages, without force or any considerable expense. But I do not see here a sufficient quantity of the wisdom, that is necessary to produce such a conduct, and I lament the want of it...
Page 119 - But that trade which, without force or constraint, is naturally and regularly carried on between any two places is always advantageous, though not always equally so, to both.
Page 116 - I am now on my main work, with the Lord Lovell ; The gallant-minded, popular Lord Lovell, The minion of the people's love. I hear He's come into the country ; and my aims are To insinuate myself into his knowledge, And then invite him to my house. Mar.
Page 123 - I was a scholar : seven useful springs Did I deflower in quotations Of cross'd opinions 'bout the soul of man ; The more I learnt, the more I learnt to doubt. Delight...
Page 85 - Food is always necessary to all, and much the greatest part of the labor of mankind is employed in raising provisions for the mouth. Is not this kind of labor, then, the fittest to be the standard by which to measure the values of all other labor, and consequently of all other things whose value depends on the labor of making or procuring them?
Page 210 - For in many cases, all that we can do, or should aim at, is, to make the best of what nature has given, to prevent the vices and faults to which such a constitution is most inclined, and give it all the advantages it is capable of. Every one's natural genius should be carried as far as it could ; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain ; and what is so plastered on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and...