Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... father my book : but those authors , either from principle , or from knowing that my ma- nuscript was kept in my shop for the inspection of the public , or from some other motive , refused to adopt the poor bantling : and not only so ...
... father my book : but those authors , either from principle , or from knowing that my ma- nuscript was kept in my shop for the inspection of the public , or from some other motive , refused to adopt the poor bantling : and not only so ...
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... fathers were The riff - raff of their age ; for time and fortune Wears out a noble train to beggary ; And from the dunghill millions do advance To state ; and mark , in this admiring world This is the course , which in the name of fate ...
... fathers were The riff - raff of their age ; for time and fortune Wears out a noble train to beggary ; And from the dunghill millions do advance To state ; and mark , in this admiring world This is the course , which in the name of fate ...
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... father and mother . My grandfather , George Lackington , had been a gentleman - farmer at Langford , a village two miles from Wellington , and acquired a pretty considerable property . But my father's mother dying when my father was but ...
... father and mother . My grandfather , George Lackington , had been a gentleman - farmer at Langford , a village two miles from Wellington , and acquired a pretty considerable property . But my father's mother dying when my father was but ...
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... father , who was ( nominally ) a Quaker , that being the religion of his ancestors . About the year 1750 , my father having three or four children , and my mother proving an excellent wife , my grandfather's resentment had nearly sub ...
... father , who was ( nominally ) a Quaker , that being the religion of his ancestors . About the year 1750 , my father having three or four children , and my mother proving an excellent wife , my grandfather's resentment had nearly sub ...
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... father that could thus involve them in such a deplorable scene of misery and distress . It is dreadful to add , that his habitual drunkenness short- ened his days nearly one half , and that about twenty years since he died , unregretted ...
... father that could thus involve them in such a deplorable scene of misery and distress . It is dreadful to add , that his habitual drunkenness short- ened his days nearly one half , and that about twenty years since he died , unregretted ...
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Página 344 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Página 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 291 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
Página 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Página 291 - Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Página 344 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk); but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Página 166 - And you who never err'd through pride ; You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent your freaks no more ; I to such blockheads set my wit, I damn such fools— go, go, you're bit...
Página 111 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Página 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.