Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 páginas |
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... work , and the many letters which I am continually receiving from gentlemen , in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland , who are pleased : to honour me with their approbation and thanks , en- AND SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS . xvi.
... work , and the many letters which I am continually receiving from gentlemen , in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland , who are pleased : to honour me with their approbation and thanks , en- AND SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS . xvi.
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... pleased us fo well , that two or three weeks after , we attempted to renew it . But one of the butchers , who was half drunk , perceiving our intention , snatch ed up his cleaver and threw it at me , which knocked eff my hat without ...
... pleased us fo well , that two or three weeks after , we attempted to renew it . But one of the butchers , who was half drunk , perceiving our intention , snatch ed up his cleaver and threw it at me , which knocked eff my hat without ...
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... pleased to inform my father that he had taken a liking to me , and propofed taking me- apprentice ; I feconded Mr. Bowden's motion ( having a better profpect in continuing with Mr. Bowden than in returning to Wellington with my father ) ...
... pleased to inform my father that he had taken a liking to me , and propofed taking me- apprentice ; I feconded Mr. Bowden's motion ( having a better profpect in continuing with Mr. Bowden than in returning to Wellington with my father ) ...
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... Pleased to the laft , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood .. Oh , blindness to the future kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n . Dr. Moore in his travels through France ...
... Pleased to the laft , he crops the flow'ry food , And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood .. Oh , blindness to the future kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n . Dr. Moore in his travels through France ...
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... pleased with trifles . I am , Dear Friend , OVID . Yours . LETTER XV . Laugh where you must ; be candid where you can . POPE Know then , that always when you come , You'll find me fitting on my bum ; With tables , pens , and books ...
... pleased with trifles . I am , Dear Friend , OVID . Yours . LETTER XV . Laugh where you must ; be candid where you can . POPE Know then , that always when you come , You'll find me fitting on my bum ; With tables , pens , and books ...
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Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington James Lackington Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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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.