The Novelist's Magazine, Volumen23Harrison and Company, 1788 A collection of separately paged novels. |
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Página 33
... less happy than mar- riage . Both conditions may be bad , but they cannot both be worst . Thus it happens , when wrong opinions are entertained , that they mutually de- troy each other , and leave the mind ' open to truth . ' I did not ...
... less happy than mar- riage . Both conditions may be bad , but they cannot both be worst . Thus it happens , when wrong opinions are entertained , that they mutually de- troy each other , and leave the mind ' open to truth . ' I did not ...
Página 55
... less ⚫ certain , when you think on a pyramid , that your mind poffeffes the idea of a pyramid , than that the pyramid itself is ftanding . What space does the idea of a pyramid occupy more than the idea of a grain of corn ? or how can ...
... less ⚫ certain , when you think on a pyramid , that your mind poffeffes the idea of a pyramid , than that the pyramid itself is ftanding . What space does the idea of a pyramid occupy more than the idea of a grain of corn ? or how can ...
Página 44
... less than making me her fole heir ; the folly of marrying for love , exem- plified in my father's marriage ; her fears that I was going to throw myself away on fome young fop , who would make me miferable ; Sir Ifaac Darby's generous ...
... less than making me her fole heir ; the folly of marrying for love , exem- plified in my father's marriage ; her fears that I was going to throw myself away on fome young fop , who would make me miferable ; Sir Ifaac Darby's generous ...
Página 48
... less than a ⚫ miracle of fo favourable a concurrence of circumstances . However , I fup- preffed this rifing fally of spiritual va- nity , and employed my thoughts in contriving how to get to town with convenience and fafety , without ...
... less than a ⚫ miracle of fo favourable a concurrence of circumstances . However , I fup- preffed this rifing fally of spiritual va- nity , and employed my thoughts in contriving how to get to town with convenience and fafety , without ...
Página 80
... less than the defire of fecuring your falvation . ⚫ · · 6 I hoped and believed your converfion was near compleated , and doubtless it would have been , had not your paffions intervened . If you will retire to a convent , and put ...
... less than the defire of fecuring your falvation . ⚫ · · 6 I hoped and believed your converfion was near compleated , and doubtless it would have been , had not your paffions intervened . If you will retire to a convent , and put ...
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Página 1 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky ? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind, and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital...
Página 18 - Nothing is more idle, than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity. He that lives according to nature will...
Página 25 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another.
Página 22 - Poverty has in large cities very different appearances: it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest: they support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for the morrow.
Página 1 - I will work only on this condition, that the art shall not be divulged, and that you shall not require me to make wings for any but ourselves.