Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... kind of prologue , as it may be called , stating his reasons with due precision for intruding himself on his readers ( whether true or otherwise is not always material to enquire , ) bespeak- ing their candour towards his weaknesses and ...
... kind of prologue , as it may be called , stating his reasons with due precision for intruding himself on his readers ( whether true or otherwise is not always material to enquire , ) bespeak- ing their candour towards his weaknesses and ...
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... kind readers should find the book so horrid dull and stupid that they cannot get through it , or if they do , and wish not to travel the same road again , I here declare my perfect readi- ness to supply them with abundance of books ...
... kind readers should find the book so horrid dull and stupid that they cannot get through it , or if they do , and wish not to travel the same road again , I here declare my perfect readi- ness to supply them with abundance of books ...
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... kind and honest - hearted friends of mine . " " Tis hard to say , what mysteries of fate , What turns of fortune , on poor writers wait ; The party slave will wound him as he can , And damn the merit , if he hates the man . ' " 9 W ...
... kind and honest - hearted friends of mine . " " Tis hard to say , what mysteries of fate , What turns of fortune , on poor writers wait ; The party slave will wound him as he can , And damn the merit , if he hates the man . ' " 9 W ...
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... kind wishes . By the bye , does the publication of a catalogue of books entitle the_com- piler to the name of author ? If it does , many book- sellers have long had a claim to that distinction , by the annual publication of their ...
... kind wishes . By the bye , does the publication of a catalogue of books entitle the_com- piler to the name of author ? If it does , many book- sellers have long had a claim to that distinction , by the annual publication of their ...
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... lately ) intimated to me their inten- tions of engaging in the task , if I any longer de- elined it . Of my first - mentioned kind biographers I shall take • 2 JAMES LACKINGTON . 29 down such particulars of my passage through life, as...
... lately ) intimated to me their inten- tions of engaging in the task , if I any longer de- elined it . Of my first - mentioned kind biographers I shall take • 2 JAMES LACKINGTON . 29 down such particulars of my passage through life, as...
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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.