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... flies , And catch the Manners living as they rife . The THIRD EDITION . LONDON : Printed for T. CARNAN , in St. Paul's Church - yard : Price Six - Pence . M DCC LXXVIII ne HARVARD COLLEGE MAR 1 1938 LISHARY Dyplicate money PREFACE.
... flies , And catch the Manners living as they rife . The THIRD EDITION . LONDON : Printed for T. CARNAN , in St. Paul's Church - yard : Price Six - Pence . M DCC LXXVIII ne HARVARD COLLEGE MAR 1 1938 LISHARY Dyplicate money PREFACE.
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... Manner of delivering them . I can speak from Experience , how dif- terent is the View of past Life , in the Wo- man , who is grown old in Knowledge and Wisdom , from that of her , who is grown old in Ignorance and Folly ! The latter is ...
... Manner of delivering them . I can speak from Experience , how dif- terent is the View of past Life , in the Wo- man , who is grown old in Knowledge and Wisdom , from that of her , who is grown old in Ignorance and Folly ! The latter is ...
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... Manner , in which she got a Sight of the Alcoran : She took the Advantage of her Pappa's . Absence , which implies she was fenfible she was doing what he ought not . Though the Confequences have turned out to her Advantage , yet even ...
... Manner , in which she got a Sight of the Alcoran : She took the Advantage of her Pappa's . Absence , which implies she was fenfible she was doing what he ought not . Though the Confequences have turned out to her Advantage , yet even ...
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... Manner , that it shall make a Report like a Pocket Pif- tol . I have likewife taken Care ( in order to hinder young Women from letting off their Fans in wrong Places , or on unfuitable Oc- cafions ) to fhew in what Cases the Crack of a ...
... Manner , that it shall make a Report like a Pocket Pif- tol . I have likewife taken Care ( in order to hinder young Women from letting off their Fans in wrong Places , or on unfuitable Oc- cafions ) to fhew in what Cases the Crack of a ...
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... Manner , that they might hereafter all of them meet together in this happy Place . The Tradition tells us further , that he had afterwards a Sight of those difmal Habita- tions , tions , which are the Portion of bad Men after 54 The ...
... Manner , that they might hereafter all of them meet together in this happy Place . The Tradition tells us further , that he had afterwards a Sight of those difmal Habita- tions , tions , which are the Portion of bad Men after 54 The ...
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Page 31 - Upon looking up, What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Page 31 - ... on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. 'The Genius seeing me indulge myself on this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. Take thine eyes off the bridge...
Page 32 - I here fetched a deep sigh; Alas, said I, man was made in vain! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The Genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect; Look no more...
Page 30 - ... 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, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire.
Page 33 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Page 27 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and' qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 32 - 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 31 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Page 27 - I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a genius and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it but never heard that the musician had before made himself visible...
Page 1 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man.