Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 páginas |
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... inhabitants thereof have fallen victims to the same : and whereas the following citizens of Philadelphia , as guardians of the poor , to wit , James Wil- son , Jacob Jenkins , and William Sansom ; and the following persons , as a ...
... inhabitants thereof have fallen victims to the same : and whereas the following citizens of Philadelphia , as guardians of the poor , to wit , James Wil- son , Jacob Jenkins , and William Sansom ; and the following persons , as a ...
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... inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the circus took the alarm , and threatened to burn or destroy it , unless the sick were removed ; and it is believed they would have actually car- ried their threats into execution , had compliance ...
... inhabitants of the neighbourhood of the circus took the alarm , and threatened to burn or destroy it , unless the sick were removed ; and it is believed they would have actually car- ried their threats into execution , had compliance ...
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... inhabitants , ) for the poor who were or might be afflicted with contagious dis- orders , and be destitute of the means of providing necessary assistance otherwise ; to engage physicians , nurses , attendants , and all necessaries for ...
... inhabitants , ) for the poor who were or might be afflicted with contagious dis- orders , and be destitute of the means of providing necessary assistance otherwise ; to engage physicians , nurses , attendants , and all necessaries for ...
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... inhabitants of Philadelphia . It is honourable to this committee , that they have conducted their business with more harmony than is generally to be met with in public bodies of equal number . Probably there never was one , of which the ...
... inhabitants of Philadelphia . It is honourable to this committee , that they have conducted their business with more harmony than is generally to be met with in public bodies of equal number . Probably there never was one , of which the ...
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... inhabitants to comply with a requisition of such importance . * The utmost exertions of the magistrates , and of the citizens generally , are necessary to guard against the deplorable consequences that may arise in the spring from the ...
... inhabitants to comply with a requisition of such importance . * The utmost exertions of the magistrates , and of the citizens generally , are necessary to guard against the deplorable consequences that may arise in the spring from the ...
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Página 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Página 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Página 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Página 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Página 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.