Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Hunt and Clarke, 1830 |
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... trade to- wards the public , and probably inspire some one , of perhaps superior abilities , with a laudable ambition to emerge from obscurity by a proper application of those talents with which providence has favoured him , to his own ...
... trade to- wards the public , and probably inspire some one , of perhaps superior abilities , with a laudable ambition to emerge from obscurity by a proper application of those talents with which providence has favoured him , to his own ...
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... trade , he was , partly by a very large fa- mily , but more by his habitual drunkenness , reduced to his old state of a journeyman shoemaker . Yet so infatuated was he with the love of liquor , that the endearing ties of husband and ...
... trade , he was , partly by a very large fa- mily , but more by his habitual drunkenness , reduced to his old state of a journeyman shoemaker . Yet so infatuated was he with the love of liquor , that the endearing ties of husband and ...
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... trade ; and I continued with him several years , working when he worked , and while he was keeping Saint Monday , I was with boys of my own age , fighting , cudgel play- ing , wrestling , & c . & c . The following story has been ...
... trade ; and I continued with him several years , working when he worked , and while he was keeping Saint Monday , I was with boys of my own age , fighting , cudgel play- ing , wrestling , & c . & c . The following story has been ...
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... trade . Religious , punctual , frugal , and so forth ; Their word would pass for more than they were worth . " POPE . They carefully attended to their shop six days in the week , and on the seventh went with their family twice to an ...
... trade . Religious , punctual , frugal , and so forth ; Their word would pass for more than they were worth . " POPE . They carefully attended to their shop six days in the week , and on the seventh went with their family twice to an ...
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... trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus , that bewitches And leads men into pools and ditches , This light inspires and plays upon The nose of Saint , like bagpipe drone , And speaks through hollow empty soul , As through a trunk , or ...
... trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus , that bewitches And leads men into pools and ditches , This light inspires and plays upon The nose of Saint , like bagpipe drone , And speaks through hollow empty soul , As through a trunk , or ...
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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.