Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 páginas |
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... fell the whole ; and of course had not any intention of printing other cditions . But the rapid fale of the work , and the many letters which I am continually receiving from gentlemen , in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland ...
... fell the whole ; and of course had not any intention of printing other cditions . But the rapid fale of the work , and the many letters which I am continually receiving from gentlemen , in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland ...
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... fell one behind another , and advanced in fingle files . As I proceeded I too was feized with a timid apprehenfion , but durft not own it ; ftill keeping on before , although I perceived my hair to heave my hat from my head , and my ...
... fell one behind another , and advanced in fingle files . As I proceeded I too was feized with a timid apprehenfion , but durft not own it ; ftill keeping on before , although I perceived my hair to heave my hat from my head , and my ...
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... fell Amanacks a few market days before and after Christmas . In this employ I took great delight , the country people being highly pleafed with me , and purchafing a great number of my Al- manacks , which excited envy in the itinerant ...
... fell Amanacks a few market days before and after Christmas . In this employ I took great delight , the country people being highly pleafed with me , and purchafing a great number of my Al- manacks , which excited envy in the itinerant ...
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... fell into the arms of Nature's foft nurfe ! fweet fleep . And thus whatever be our ftation , Our hearts in fpite of us declare We feel peculiar confolation , And taste of happiness a share . HORACE Imitated . I cannot here omit ...
... fell into the arms of Nature's foft nurfe ! fweet fleep . And thus whatever be our ftation , Our hearts in fpite of us declare We feel peculiar confolation , And taste of happiness a share . HORACE Imitated . I cannot here omit ...
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... day or two before I fell out with , my lait mistress ( which was the trifling caufe of my leaving Taunton ) Betty Tucker , a common lafs , had fworn a child to E me ; that the parish officers had been to my LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON . 47.
... day or two before I fell out with , my lait mistress ( which was the trifling caufe of my leaving Taunton ) Betty Tucker , a common lafs , had fworn a child to E me ; that the parish officers had been to my LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON . 47.
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Términos y frases comunes
acquainted afferted affured againſt alfo alſo befides beſt bookfeller bufinefs cafe called caufe confcience confequence courfe DEAR FRIEND defire devil difcovered divine Epicurus expences fafe faid fale fame fays feems feen fell fenfe fent fermon fervants feven feveral fhall fhillings fhop fhort fhould fifter fince fociety fome fometimes fons foon foul fpiritual ftate ftill fubject fuch fufficient fuperior fuppofe fure gentlemen heaven himſelf holy honeft houfe houſe HUDIBRAS increaſe informed inftances Lackington lady laft laſt lefs LETTER live mafter methodists mind moft moſt muft muſt myfelf never night o'er obferved occafion paffed paffion perfon philofopher Pindar pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed poor preachers preaching prefent purchaſe purpoſe reafon refpect SOAME JENYNS ſtate ſtill Taunton thefe themfelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand uſed vifited virtue Wefley Wefley's Wellington whofe wife worfe
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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.