The MiniaturePrinted and sold for the author by C. Knight, 1805 - 368 páginas |
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... Effects of Quizzing . XII . Various sorts of Prejudice , national and local . XIII . Effects of a mistaken Ambition.- 110 121 134 Characters of Atticus , Trebius , Rusti- cus and Rufillus . - Pugilism- censured . 143 XIV . Death . The ...
... Effects of Quizzing . XII . Various sorts of Prejudice , national and local . XIII . Effects of a mistaken Ambition.- 110 121 134 Characters of Atticus , Trebius , Rusti- cus and Rufillus . - Pugilism- censured . 143 XIV . Death . The ...
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... effects . - Letter con- taining instructions for behaving fashionably disagreable XXIII . The system of Lying compared to that of the Planets , & c . - Universal prevalency of the habit . - Reflections on the death of JACOB BRYANT ...
... effects . - Letter con- taining instructions for behaving fashionably disagreable XXIII . The system of Lying compared to that of the Planets , & c . - Universal prevalency of the habit . - Reflections on the death of JACOB BRYANT ...
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... or morality fhall ever gain admiffion into thefe papers ; -to produce the contrary effect , to point out the more ferious confequences of fome errors in the conduct of my fellow citizens , which habit , and a conftant C 2 THE MINIATURE .
... or morality fhall ever gain admiffion into thefe papers ; -to produce the contrary effect , to point out the more ferious confequences of fome errors in the conduct of my fellow citizens , which habit , and a conftant C 2 THE MINIATURE .
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... effects , without grief and astonishment ; without wondering that Europe throughout the course of so many centuries , made no effort to burst her disgraceful shackles , and to assert the dignity of human nature . When , however ...
... effects , without grief and astonishment ; without wondering that Europe throughout the course of so many centuries , made no effort to burst her disgraceful shackles , and to assert the dignity of human nature . When , however ...
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Solomon Grildrig. ates or heigthens the blow , and diminishes or encreases its baneful effects ? Through the whole series of history his omnipotent providence may clearly be traced , and whether under the name of destiny or chance , his ...
Solomon Grildrig. ates or heigthens the blow , and diminishes or encreases its baneful effects ? Through the whole series of history his omnipotent providence may clearly be traced , and whether under the name of destiny or chance , his ...
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Página 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Página 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Página 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Página 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Página 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Página 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Página 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Página 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;