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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... turn of his favour . The idea of fuch an humiliating fituation was inexpreffibly galling ; but the good Monk at laft , by the com- bined force of his reafoning and his rhetoric , prevailed on him to act agreeably to the fuggeftions of ...
... turn of his favour . The idea of fuch an humiliating fituation was inexpreffibly galling ; but the good Monk at laft , by the com- bined force of his reafoning and his rhetoric , prevailed on him to act agreeably to the fuggeftions of ...
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... turn- ings and windings , he entered a vault , in the lower end of which a lamp obfcurely glimmered . He approached , though with fome terror , and underneath the lamp perceived a tomb of marble , with the following infcription upon it ...
... turn- ings and windings , he entered a vault , in the lower end of which a lamp obfcurely glimmered . He approached , though with fome terror , and underneath the lamp perceived a tomb of marble , with the following infcription upon it ...
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... turning to Lucilia , thanked her for fo kindly interesting herself upon his account . The Magiftrate , who had at first been struck with his perfon and behaviour , expreffed his furprize at and admiration of fuch an un- common proof of ...
... turning to Lucilia , thanked her for fo kindly interesting herself upon his account . The Magiftrate , who had at first been struck with his perfon and behaviour , expreffed his furprize at and admiration of fuch an un- common proof of ...
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... turning every misfortune into a judgement , proceeds from wrong notions of religion , which in its own nature , produces good - will towards every one , and puts the mildest con- Atruction upon every accident that befalls them . In this ...
... turning every misfortune into a judgement , proceeds from wrong notions of religion , which in its own nature , produces good - will towards every one , and puts the mildest con- Atruction upon every accident that befalls them . In this ...
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... turn upon people who had great estates , but never enjoyed them , by reafon of fome flaw in their own , or their father's behaviour . She can give you the reason why such a one died childlefs ; why fuch a one was cut off in the flower ...
... turn upon people who had great estates , but never enjoyed them , by reafon of fome flaw in their own , or their father's behaviour . She can give you the reason why such a one died childlefs ; why fuch a one was cut off in the flower ...
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.