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 15
... taken notice of by the Grand Vizir , and was employed for a con- fiderable time in a place of truft , the duties of which he discharged entirely to his fatisfaction . He was foon admitted to the prefence of the Sultan himself , who ...
... taken notice of by the Grand Vizir , and was employed for a con- fiderable time in a place of truft , the duties of which he discharged entirely to his fatisfaction . He was foon admitted to the prefence of the Sultan himself , who ...
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... taken into cuftody ; though he , at the fame time , felt an unusual fomething which pleaded in his behalf : in pity , therefore , to his youth and amiable appearance , he alfo ordered , that while he was ftrictly guarded , he should be ...
... taken into cuftody ; though he , at the fame time , felt an unusual fomething which pleaded in his behalf : in pity , therefore , to his youth and amiable appearance , he alfo ordered , that while he was ftrictly guarded , he should be ...
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... taken from them their property without their confent given by themselves or their Reprefentatives ; and now it is a part of the Empire which refifts the Legiflature for the very fame reason . ANECDOTE of a PERSIAN's COURTSHIP in ENGLAND ...
... taken from them their property without their confent given by themselves or their Reprefentatives ; and now it is a part of the Empire which refifts the Legiflature for the very fame reason . ANECDOTE of a PERSIAN's COURTSHIP in ENGLAND ...
Página 39
... taken notice of myself , that most Hiftorians , as well Christian as Pagan , have fallen into this idle fuperftition , and spoken of ill fuc- cefs , unforeseen difafters , and terrible events , as if they had been let into the secrets ...
... taken notice of myself , that most Hiftorians , as well Christian as Pagan , have fallen into this idle fuperftition , and spoken of ill fuc- cefs , unforeseen difafters , and terrible events , as if they had been let into the secrets ...
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... taken fo impious a man on board . Diagoras begged them to look upon the reft of the ships that were in the fame diftrefs , and asked them whether Diagoras was on board every veffel in the feet . Another confideration , which may check ...
... taken fo impious a man on board . Diagoras begged them to look upon the reft of the ships that were in the fame diftrefs , and asked them whether Diagoras was on board every veffel in the feet . Another confideration , which may check ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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.