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Before many more weeks are elapsed , I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you
, when , exclusive of the enjoyment I receive from your company in preference to
any other , I promise myself no small delight from the poem you mention , and ...
Before many more weeks are elapsed , I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you
, when , exclusive of the enjoyment I receive from your company in preference to
any other , I promise myself no small delight from the poem you mention , and ...
Page 47
The condition of the peasantry in this country might , and I hope will , soon be
made more comfortable . I have had opportunities of seeing the wretched poverty
of the lower sort of people about this place , and I believe the same is the case in
...
The condition of the peasantry in this country might , and I hope will , soon be
made more comfortable . I have had opportunities of seeing the wretched poverty
of the lower sort of people about this place , and I believe the same is the case in
...
Page 152
I hope to hear soon from you that he is much better , and that they both enjoy
England much more than Gibraltar . Your letter to Caroline arrived after her return
to Lichfield , and was sent to her there . I hardly know where they are likely to ...
I hope to hear soon from you that he is much better , and that they both enjoy
England much more than Gibraltar . Your letter to Caroline arrived after her return
to Lichfield , and was sent to her there . I hardly know where they are likely to ...
Page 153
I hope to have the rest of the painting completed by the beginning of the next
week , and the papering done , so that I may hope to welcome you with all your
family into it the week following . I am as pleased with everything as any child
with a ...
I hope to have the rest of the painting completed by the beginning of the next
week , and the papering done , so that I may hope to welcome you with all your
family into it the week following . I am as pleased with everything as any child
with a ...
Page 224
In my next letter I hope to be able to tell you when we shall leave Cambridge .
There is much yet to be seen , and something I trust out of the University library ,
from which Mr Boon has very kindly promised to get me books . I write in great
haste ...
In my next letter I hope to be able to tell you when we shall leave Cambridge .
There is much yet to be seen , and something I trust out of the University library ,
from which Mr Boon has very kindly promised to get me books . I write in great
haste ...
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Page 79 - Si le rétablissement des sciences et des arts a contribué à épurer les mœurs 1 Avertissement
Page 215 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 260 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 211 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God : for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Page 289 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams : and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.
Page 291 - There is more weighty bullion sense in this book than I ever found in the same number of pages in any uninspired writer.
Page 288 - Necesse est ut eam, tion ut vivam : but it may be truly affirmed that there was never any philosophy, religion, or other discipline, which did so plainly and highly exalt the good which is communicative...
Page 233 - By that its.ill-deservings are to be measured, — not by the narrowness of the limits, either of time or place, within which the good providence of God hath confined its power of doing mischief. If, on any ground, it were safe to indulge a hope that the suffering of the wicked may have an end, it would be upon the principle adopted by the great Origen, and by other eminent examples of learning and piety which our own times have seen,— that the actual endurance of punishment in the next life will...
Page 12 - I much wonder that you should listen to the idea, that a fondness for Italian poetry is the corruption of our taste, when you cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province of poetry, imagination, has been more or less cultivated among us, according to the degree of estimation in which they have been held...
Page 210 - IN the midway1 of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct : and e'en to tell, It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. Yet, to discourse of what there good befel, All else will I relate discover'd there.