Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Hunt and Clarke, 1830 |
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... head is of no value , I can assure them , that I am of a very different opinion , at least of the original ; and I have the pleasure to add , that a very great number of my customers have been highly pleased to have so striking a ...
... head is of no value , I can assure them , that I am of a very different opinion , at least of the original ; and I have the pleasure to add , that a very great number of my customers have been highly pleased to have so striking a ...
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... head ; Mr Nicolson , ( commonly called Maps ) , bookseller at Cambridge , two years since , had his head finely engraven ; it is a good likeness , and is sold at ten shillings and sixpence . Francis Kirkman , partner with Richard Hend ...
... head ; Mr Nicolson , ( commonly called Maps ) , bookseller at Cambridge , two years since , had his head finely engraven ; it is a good likeness , and is sold at ten shillings and sixpence . Francis Kirkman , partner with Richard Hend ...
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... head , And leaves the dreary mansions of the dead ; In shapes more various mocks at human care , Than e'er the fabled Proteus us'd to wear ; Now , in the lonely way each trav'ller's dread , He stalks a giant shape without a head ; Now ...
... head , And leaves the dreary mansions of the dead ; In shapes more various mocks at human care , Than e'er the fabled Proteus us'd to wear ; Now , in the lonely way each trav'ller's dread , He stalks a giant shape without a head ; Now ...
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... head , and my teeth to chatter in my mouth . In fact , I was greatly agitated at what I saw ; the object much resembled the human figure as to shape , but the size was prodigious . However , I had promised to see what it was , and for ...
... head , and my teeth to chatter in my mouth . In fact , I was greatly agitated at what I saw ; the object much resembled the human figure as to shape , but the size was prodigious . However , I had promised to see what it was , and for ...
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... heads striding over the end of a large beam that ran across both houses . It was then apparent that the violent agitation of the adjoining house was occasioned by nothing more than his leaping up and down on the unsupported end of this ...
... heads striding over the end of a large beam that ran across both houses . It was then apparent that the violent agitation of the adjoining house was occasioned by nothing more than his leaping up and down on the unsupported end of this ...
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Página 342 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 116 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Página 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 314 - Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these, reciprocally, those again. The mind and conduct mutually imprint And stamp their image in each other's mint ; Each sire and dam, of an infernal race, Begetting and conceiving all that's base.
Página 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 342 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk); but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Página 249 - But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Página 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Página 289 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.