The MiniaturePrinted and sold for the author by C. Knight, 1805 - 368 páginas |
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... respects bene- ficial , is the fummit of my ambition , and the only compenfation to which I look forward , for the anxiety and apprehenfion I feel , in thus intrud- ing myself upon public notice , and in awaiting the reception which ...
... respects bene- ficial , is the fummit of my ambition , and the only compenfation to which I look forward , for the anxiety and apprehenfion I feel , in thus intrud- ing myself upon public notice , and in awaiting the reception which ...
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... other concurrent causes , are necessary to overcome this difficulty , and to subvert and transform every thing which they respect and venerate ; so great indeed is the strength which habits accumulate ; so deeply 24 THE MINIATURE .
... other concurrent causes , are necessary to overcome this difficulty , and to subvert and transform every thing which they respect and venerate ; so great indeed is the strength which habits accumulate ; so deeply 24 THE MINIATURE .
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... respects degraded and degenerate , they learn to appre- ciate the advantages which they universally con- fer , and by a natural transition , are desirous of possessing what they admire . The Romans had long constituted themselves an ...
... respects degraded and degenerate , they learn to appre- ciate the advantages which they universally con- fer , and by a natural transition , are desirous of possessing what they admire . The Romans had long constituted themselves an ...
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... respect to take upon him the dignity of a Brobdingnagian ? But to prevent such objections for the future , and moreover for the purpose of asserting my absolute and indisputable authority , I SOLOMON GRILDRIG do give MYSELF leave to ...
... respect to take upon him the dignity of a Brobdingnagian ? But to prevent such objections for the future , and moreover for the purpose of asserting my absolute and indisputable authority , I SOLOMON GRILDRIG do give MYSELF leave to ...
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... respects , any slight punish- ment will suffice . But if these smaller misde- meanors are often repeated , transportation , banishment , and all the horrors of dissolution and oblivion must necessarily ensue . To enforce these laws a ...
... respects , any slight punish- ment will suffice . But if these smaller misde- meanors are often repeated , transportation , banishment , and all the horrors of dissolution and oblivion must necessarily ensue . To enforce these laws a ...
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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;