Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - Počet stran: 472 |
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... published gratuitously , so far as they went , wholly at my expense , and would have been so continued , had I been furnished with materials , which I sought in vain from persons who could and ought to have supplied them copiously . And ...
... published gratuitously , so far as they went , wholly at my expense , and would have been so continued , had I been furnished with materials , which I sought in vain from persons who could and ought to have supplied them copiously . And ...
Strana ix
... published , and the particular desire of some of my friends , have induced me to undertake a more satisfactory history of it , in order to collect together , while facts are recent , as many of the most interesting occurrences of this ...
... published , and the particular desire of some of my friends , have induced me to undertake a more satisfactory history of it , in order to collect together , while facts are recent , as many of the most interesting occurrences of this ...
Strana x
... published the first edition of this pamphlet , it was my intention to have greatly enlarged it for a second one , and to have new - modelled it , so as to preserve a connexion between its several parts , in which it is extremely ...
... published the first edition of this pamphlet , it was my intention to have greatly enlarged it for a second one , and to have new - modelled it , so as to preserve a connexion between its several parts , in which it is extremely ...
Strana xi
... publish separately what may be worthy of the public eye . PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION . Jan. 16 , 1794 . THE uncommon degree of favour which this pamphlet has experienced , has impressed me with lively sentiments of grati- tude . As ...
... publish separately what may be worthy of the public eye . PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION . Jan. 16 , 1794 . THE uncommon degree of favour which this pamphlet has experienced , has impressed me with lively sentiments of grati- tude . As ...
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... published an address to the citizens , signed by the president and secretary , recommending " to avoid all unnecessary inter- course with the infected ; to place marks on the doors or win- dows where they were ; to pay great attention ...
... published an address to the citizens , signed by the president and secretary , recommending " to avoid all unnecessary inter- course with the infected ; to place marks on the doors or win- dows where they were ; to pay great attention ...
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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.