Brittische bibliothek, Volume 1

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Carl Wilhelm Mueller (of Leipzig)
Bay J. Wendler, 1757 - Books

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Page 36 - no man's slave ... ^ I ask for nothing , tho' I nothing have. By Fortune humbled, yet not sunk so low To shame a friend, or fear to meet a foe. ''-''' Meannefs , in ribbons or in rags , I hate, ' And have 'not learnt to flatter,
Page 36 - How much of paper's spoil'd! what floods of ink! And yet how few , how very few can think ! The knack of writing is an easy trade; But] to think well requires — at
Page 240 - Excudent alii fpirantia mollius aera : Credo equidem , vivos ducent de marmore vultus : «-Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento, (Hae tibí erunt, artes.)
Page 91 - Poverty looks chearful in thy Sight, Thou mak'st the gloomy face of Nature gay, Qivst Beauty to the Sun, and
Page 36 - Meannefs , in ribbons or in rags , I hate, ' And have 'not learnt to flatter, even the Great. Few friends I ask , and
Page 34 - Of honeft parents, not of great I came Not known to fortune , quite unknown to fame,
Page 233 - them mutually from one another in Ten Books : By the Revd. Mr. Spence.
Page 249 - Surgery, with Remarks: to which is . added, An Account of the Preparation and

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