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... excellent truths in this book ; it will do much fervice to mankind ; but I forefee that our " ladies will do much harm to their children by starving " them in two ways ; by a diet compofed too much of vege- " table food , and by ...
... excellent truths in this book ; it will do much fervice to mankind ; but I forefee that our " ladies will do much harm to their children by starving " them in two ways ; by a diet compofed too much of vege- " table food , and by ...
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... excellent . Vol- taire fays , " that a comment would be made " with great ease on his Works , for that there " would be nothing more to do than to write " under every paffage beautiful , fublime , ex- 66 quifite . " Boileau ufed to fay ...
... excellent . Vol- taire fays , " that a comment would be made " with great ease on his Works , for that there " would be nothing more to do than to write " under every paffage beautiful , fublime , ex- 66 quifite . " Boileau ufed to fay ...
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... . " We muft 66 never be feparated , " faid he ; " and I am " anxious to let him know that I conti- " nued his friend to the laft moment of my life . " Racine Racine was an excellent fcholar . His So- phocles and 306 BIOGRAPHIANA .
... . " We muft 66 never be feparated , " faid he ; " and I am " anxious to let him know that I conti- " nued his friend to the laft moment of my life . " Racine Racine was an excellent fcholar . His So- phocles and 306 BIOGRAPHIANA .
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William Seward. Racine was an excellent fcholar . His So- phocles and Euripides were full of marginal notes on the dubious paffages of thofe tragic poets , and were preferved in the king's library at Paris . The Memoirs of the Life of ...
William Seward. Racine was an excellent fcholar . His So- phocles and Euripides were full of marginal notes on the dubious paffages of thofe tragic poets , and were preferved in the king's library at Paris . The Memoirs of the Life of ...
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... excellent magiftrate , in his charge to the overfeers and churchwardens of the hundred of Stoke , Bucks , fays wifely and humanely with refpect to the removal of labourers belonging to other parishes , " Confider thoroughly what you may ...
... excellent magiftrate , in his charge to the overfeers and churchwardens of the hundred of Stoke , Bucks , fays wifely and humanely with refpect to the removal of labourers belonging to other parishes , " Confider thoroughly what you may ...
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Page 600 - A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of...
Page 390 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 607 - Parading round, and round, and round : To me it talks of ravag'd plains, And burning towns, and ruin'd swains, And mangled limbs, and dying groans, And widows' tears, and orphans' moans ; And all that Misery's hand bestows, To fill the catalogue of human woes.
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Page 415 - ... comes there letters from his wife of the death of that boy in the plague. He appeared to him (he said) of a manly shape, and of that growth that he thinks he shall be at the resurrection.
Page 415 - When the King came in England, at that time the pest was in London, he being in the country at Sir Robert Cotton's house with old Camden, he saw in a vision his eldest son (then a child and at London) appear unto him with the mark of a bloody cross on his forehead, as if it had been cut with a sword, at which amazed he prayed unto God, and in the morning he came to Mr.
Page 415 - In the meantime comes there letters from his wife of the death of that Boy in the plague.
Page 631 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.