The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a Collection of Select Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse; Curious Anecdotes, Instructive Tales, and Ingenious Essays on Different Subjects, Volumen7R. Goadby, 1776 |
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Página 17
... shall be my protection . ' " " A Defcription of the extraordinary SALMON LEAP at Ballyshannon . From Twifs's Travels , lately published . THE Salmon , in coming from the fea , are neceffarily obliged , at Ballyshannon , to leap up this ...
... shall be my protection . ' " " A Defcription of the extraordinary SALMON LEAP at Ballyshannon . From Twifs's Travels , lately published . THE Salmon , in coming from the fea , are neceffarily obliged , at Ballyshannon , to leap up this ...
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... shall contain 1357.1712 poles ; and would have the ratio of the latus rectum to the fum of its diameters be as 9 to 28. Quere , what must the dimenfions of the ellip- fis be ? A QUESTION , by R. White . THERE is a cone whofe diameter at ...
... shall contain 1357.1712 poles ; and would have the ratio of the latus rectum to the fum of its diameters be as 9 to 28. Quere , what must the dimenfions of the ellip- fis be ? A QUESTION , by R. White . THERE is a cone whofe diameter at ...
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... shall be the last aspiration of your Pierre . " Here , unable to contain himself any longer , he broke from her , and , haftening to carry his firft defign into execution , furrendered himself to the Chief Magistrate ; who , after ...
... shall be the last aspiration of your Pierre . " Here , unable to contain himself any longer , he broke from her , and , haftening to carry his firft defign into execution , furrendered himself to the Chief Magistrate ; who , after ...
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... Shall I aggra- vate his troubles , " faid he to himself , " by robbing him of the only thing that can alleviate them ? No , I will not confent to it . The Countefs's virtue ought , on this occafion , to help me to call forth my own ...
... Shall I aggra- vate his troubles , " faid he to himself , " by robbing him of the only thing that can alleviate them ? No , I will not confent to it . The Countefs's virtue ought , on this occafion , to help me to call forth my own ...
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... shall command me , whatever rifque I may run in doing it . " " My Lord , " faid the King , " now does your promise bring me to full life ; I never made the leaft doubt of your zeal : but I prefumed not entirely to depend on an ...
... shall command me , whatever rifque I may run in doing it . " " My Lord , " faid the King , " now does your promise bring me to full life ; I never made the leaft doubt of your zeal : but I prefumed not entirely to depend on an ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 295 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Página 222 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 295 - I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Página 222 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 222 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Página 222 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Página 130 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...
Página 295 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Página 130 - ... insulted by his adversary, or despised by the world. It may be laid down as an unfailing and universal axiom, that " all pride is abject and mean.