Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 páginas |
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... eyes of the public , and will of course be avoided by them . Here perhaps it will be remarked : that I have even prefumed to differ in opinion from the great Lord Bacon ; that philofophical luminary thought that the eye of an envious ...
... eyes of the public , and will of course be avoided by them . Here perhaps it will be remarked : that I have even prefumed to differ in opinion from the great Lord Bacon ; that philofophical luminary thought that the eye of an envious ...
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... eyes on Glory look , When they have got their picture tow'rd a book , Or pompous title , like a gaudy Sign Meant to ... eye ; who , as you were pleafed to fay , could not but be fomewhat curious to learn fome well - authenticated ...
... eyes on Glory look , When they have got their picture tow'rd a book , Or pompous title , like a gaudy Sign Meant to ... eye ; who , as you were pleafed to fay , could not but be fomewhat curious to learn fome well - authenticated ...
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... eye , I fhall chearfully fubmit to your decifion , con . vinced that you will not , " With mean complacence e'er betray your trust , " Nor be fo civil as to prove unjust . ” " " John Dunton , a brother Bibliopole , long fince ex ...
... eye , I fhall chearfully fubmit to your decifion , con . vinced that you will not , " With mean complacence e'er betray your trust , " Nor be fo civil as to prove unjust . ” " " John Dunton , a brother Bibliopole , long fince ex ...
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... eyes open . About two years after this , the boy was again taken ill , and in a day or two after , wasto all appearance dead ; b his father refolved not to have him interred , until he became offenfive ; he laid in this ftate fix days ...
... eyes open . About two years after this , the boy was again taken ill , and in a day or two after , wasto all appearance dead ; b his father refolved not to have him interred , until he became offenfive ; he laid in this ftate fix days ...
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... eyes with aftonishment , while I repeated by memory feveral chapters out of the New Teftament , concluding me from this fpecimen to be a prodigy of Science . But my career of learn ing was foon at an end , when my mother became fo poor ...
... eyes with aftonishment , while I repeated by memory feveral chapters out of the New Teftament , concluding me from this fpecimen to be a prodigy of Science . But my career of learn ing was foon at an end , when my mother became fo poor ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 159 - 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 110 - 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 85 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 247 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— 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 151 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Página 169 - To Banbury came I; O prophane one ! Where I saw a puritane one, Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Página 163 - This I take to be properly enthusiasm, which, though founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain, works yet, where it once gets footing, more powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either of those two, or both together...
Página 81 - ... state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Página 163 - God, I own, cannot be denied to be able to enlighten the understanding, by a ray darted into the mind immediately from the fountain of light...
Página 238 - The best time for bookselling, is when there is no kind of news stirring ; then many of those who for months would have done nothing but talk of war or peace, revolutions, and counter-revolutions, &c.