Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - Počet stran: 472 |
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Strana ix
... observation . Those of a different description , I have been assiduous to collect from every person of credibility , possessed of information . Desirous of having this account correct and complete , I have printed off but a small number ...
... observation . Those of a different description , I have been assiduous to collect from every person of credibility , possessed of information . Desirous of having this account correct and complete , I have printed off but a small number ...
Strana 13
... observations on some of the consequences of that calamity . BEFORE I enter on the consideration of this disorder , it may not be improper to offer a few introductory remarks on the si- tuation of Philadelphia previous to its ...
... observations on some of the consequences of that calamity . BEFORE I enter on the consideration of this disorder , it may not be improper to offer a few introductory remarks on the si- tuation of Philadelphia previous to its ...
Strana 26
... observe , that most of them happened in the first stage of the public panic . Afterwards , when the citizens recovered a little from their fright , they became rare . These horrid circumstances having a tendency to throw a shade over ...
... observe , that most of them happened in the first stage of the public panic . Afterwards , when the citizens recovered a little from their fright , they became rare . These horrid circumstances having a tendency to throw a shade over ...
Strana 32
... observed , that a great number of dwelling houses and stores in this city are , for the present , shut up ; and having good reason to appre- hend that some evil disposed persons may avail themselves of the opportunity to commit ...
... observed , that a great number of dwelling houses and stores in this city are , for the present , shut up ; and having good reason to appre- hend that some evil disposed persons may avail themselves of the opportunity to commit ...
Strana 40
... observed , that the fear of the contagion was so prevalent , that as soon as any one was taken ill , of any disorder whatever , an alarm was spread among the neighbours , and every effort was used to have the sick person hurried off to ...
... observed , that the fear of the contagion was so prevalent , that as soon as any one was taken ill , of any disorder whatever , an alarm was spread among the neighbours , and every effort was used to have the sick person hurried off to ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.