Sancho: Or, The ProverbialistT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1816 - 178 páginas |
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... clergyman of the village , as honest a creature as ever lived , being in the vexatious habit of weekly dealing out such plain , pointed , pithy sermons , that my aunt Winifred , every Sunday evening , warmly protested " every one of ...
... clergyman of the village , as honest a creature as ever lived , being in the vexatious habit of weekly dealing out such plain , pointed , pithy sermons , that my aunt Winifred , every Sunday evening , warmly protested " every one of ...
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... clergyman- shame to the country there should be any such ! -and the wish of her heart had been to hear her son proclaim to the world the principles by which her husband had lived well , and died triumphantly . Such was her wish - such ...
... clergyman- shame to the country there should be any such ! -and the wish of her heart had been to hear her son proclaim to the world the principles by which her husband had lived well , and died triumphantly . Such was her wish - such ...
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... clergyman , " supposing the Peruvian orator thus to reason , I should be glad to know by what answer that young gentleman would repel his arguments . " He then , to my infinite horror , sat down , and left me with the eyes of the ...
... clergyman , " supposing the Peruvian orator thus to reason , I should be glad to know by what answer that young gentleman would repel his arguments . " He then , to my infinite horror , sat down , and left me with the eyes of the ...
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... clergyman of a very prudent cast , stating , among other claims , his sacred profes- sion . The clergyman rudely questioned the fact , and told him , peevishly , that he doubted whether he even knew the number of the Com- mandments ...
... clergyman of a very prudent cast , stating , among other claims , his sacred profes- sion . The clergyman rudely questioned the fact , and told him , peevishly , that he doubted whether he even knew the number of the Com- mandments ...
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... clergyman's words , " according to this good man , descends from Heaven . " Here was thesis enough for a very extensive J argument ; and I did not quit the subject till I had come to a fixed resolution to devote myself to the study of ...
... clergyman's words , " according to this good man , descends from Heaven . " Here was thesis enough for a very extensive J argument ; and I did not quit the subject till I had come to a fixed resolution to devote myself to the study of ...
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Página 159 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 103 - ... exclaim, • Give them bark ! give them bark ! and let not an European perish, whom it is possible for a Peruvian to save.' Thus far all would be well. But conceive, instead of the assembly being permitted to act upon this benevolent decision, some Peruvian, of an age in which the prevalence of policy or mere prudence over justice and benevolence is more intelligible and pardonable, to arise, and thus to address his countrymen: • " ' Peruvians, you are far too precipitate. Consider, I beseech...
Página 99 - A fool and his money are soon parted ;" " A penny saved is a penny got;" " Money makes the man;" and who could resist such accumulated authorities?
Página 107 - Obey the eleventh," said the archbishop, "and you certainly will. — A new " commandment I give unto you, — that ye love
Página 105 - I'eruvums, are my reasons for opposing the wish of the speaker; and whoever promotes it, or opposes me, is a madman, and an enemy both to the Incas and the Great Spirit.'
Página 102 - I then thought looked old enough to know better) arose, and thus addressed the assembly : " Instead, sir, of replying directly to the reasonings of the speaker who has preceded me, I will simply put another case, and request his decision upon it. Suppose, instead of the present assembly, a thousand Peruvians convened on the banks of the Amazon, to take into consideration a supplication from the nations of Europe to supply them with that bark of Peru, which...
Página 100 - Heathen, convened a meeting near my aunt's mansion-house, to consider the means of extending to about sixty millions of poor idolatrous Hindoos the knowledge of Christianity. Now, whatever Religion and sound Wisdom might urge upon so plain a point, mere Prudence could not but be alarmed at an attempt, however quiet, to disturb the creed of sixty millions of people. Accordingly, having entered the assembly, I rose, and to the admiration of my aunt, made the following oration. '" I rise, Sir, to oppose...