Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826 |
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... sometimes be wrongly , and however true , may sometimes be falsely applied ; and none are so likely to be so , as those that from having been found capable of effecting so much , are expected to perform all . An Indian has very few ...
... sometimes be wrongly , and however true , may sometimes be falsely applied ; and none are so likely to be so , as those that from having been found capable of effecting so much , are expected to perform all . An Indian has very few ...
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... sometimes of the greatest beauty , and sometimes of the greatest sublimity . Milton , in his moral description of hell , says that it was a place which God " created evil , for evil only good ; where all life dies , death lives . " That ...
... sometimes of the greatest beauty , and sometimes of the greatest sublimity . Milton , in his moral description of hell , says that it was a place which God " created evil , for evil only good ; where all life dies , death lives . " That ...
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... sometimes looked to the weight and value of an argument , rather than to its justice , or its truth . Sir Robert took him aside , and rather unceremoniously put a bank note of a thou- sand pounds into his hand , saying I must have your ...
... sometimes looked to the weight and value of an argument , rather than to its justice , or its truth . Sir Robert took him aside , and rather unceremoniously put a bank note of a thou- sand pounds into his hand , saying I must have your ...
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... sometimes inclines them to receive . XXXI . PHILOSOPHY is to Poetry , what old age is to youth ; and the stern truths of Philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one , as the chilling testimonies of expe- rience are to the hopes ...
... sometimes inclines them to receive . XXXI . PHILOSOPHY is to Poetry , what old age is to youth ; and the stern truths of Philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one , as the chilling testimonies of expe- rience are to the hopes ...
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... sometimes sown without producing re- venge , their proper harvest , so we also are not to wonder , if at other times the harvest should spring up , even where no seed has been sown . XLVI . GROSS and vulgar minds will always pay a ...
... sometimes sown without producing re- venge , their proper harvest , so we also are not to wonder , if at other times the harvest should spring up , even where no seed has been sown . XLVI . GROSS and vulgar minds will always pay a ...
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Página 3 - Wife' set out in quest of lovers; Morality's prim personification, In which not Envy's self a flaw discovers; To others' share let 'female errors fall', For she had not even one - the worst of all.
Página 12 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 'Tis woman's whole existence...
Página 119 - Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty ; It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Página 35 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Página 94 - How can I love to see thee shine So bright, whom I have bought so dear ? The tent-ropes flapping lone I hear...
Página 32 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 95 - Far from my sacred natal clime, I haste to an untimely grave ; The daring thoughts that soared sublime Are sunk in ocean's southern wave. Slave of the mine ! thy yellow light Gleams baleful as the tomb-fire drear.
Página 6 - Lucretius' irreligion is too strong For early stomachs to prove wholesome food; I can't help thinking Juvenal was wrong, Although no doubt his real intent was good, For speaking out so plainly in his song, So much, indeed, as to be downright rude; And then what proper person can be partial To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?
Página 44 - For first, is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influence over a material one, that the most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter?