Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 páginas |
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... person who felt a motion , made an extempory prayer ; when he had done , another began , and so on , for about two hours . There every foul a face of forrow wears , And not one fign of happiness appears ; But looks of terror and ...
... person who felt a motion , made an extempory prayer ; when he had done , another began , and so on , for about two hours . There every foul a face of forrow wears , And not one fign of happiness appears ; But looks of terror and ...
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... person of the other fex ; and that this bleffing when attained we call love ; we find in Plato this opinion ; as according to this philofopher's fable , man and woman were not always two diftin & t beings as they are at prefent . · But ...
... person of the other fex ; and that this bleffing when attained we call love ; we find in Plato this opinion ; as according to this philofopher's fable , man and woman were not always two diftin & t beings as they are at prefent . · But ...
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... person who exhibited this remarkable fhew- board , at the inn just by , I was informed that the pious tripe - feller generally got drunk on Sundays , after he returned from the barn - preaching ; which accounts for his not felling tripe ...
... person who exhibited this remarkable fhew- board , at the inn just by , I was informed that the pious tripe - feller generally got drunk on Sundays , after he returned from the barn - preaching ; which accounts for his not felling tripe ...
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... in his own gruff manner . During his continuance in her house he always talked to him without ceremony , and it was remarked that he had more influence with him than any other person in Scotland 286 LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON .
... in his own gruff manner . During his continuance in her house he always talked to him without ceremony , and it was remarked that he had more influence with him than any other person in Scotland 286 LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON .
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James Lackington. more influence with him than any other person in Scotland . I was much pleafed with the politeness of the gen- tleman who related me this ftory of the Doctor , as he appeared anxious to excufe him for his want of due ...
James Lackington. more influence with him than any other person in Scotland . I was much pleafed with the politeness of the gen- tleman who related me this ftory of the Doctor , as he appeared anxious to excufe him for his want of due ...
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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.