Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen18Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... pounds per year , but after the old woman's panic and fear of damnation were over , she had recourse to chancery , and his lordship annulled the deed of gift . His lordship's remarks on such kinds of impositions are very curious , and ...
... pounds per year , but after the old woman's panic and fear of damnation were over , she had recourse to chancery , and his lordship annulled the deed of gift . His lordship's remarks on such kinds of impositions are very curious , and ...
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... pounds ( every shilling I was possessed of ) and part of my clothes , by some country sharpers . Having one coat and two waist- coats left , I lent my best waistcoat to an acquaintance , who left the town and forgot to return it ...
... pounds ( every shilling I was possessed of ) and part of my clothes , by some country sharpers . Having one coat and two waist- coats left , I lent my best waistcoat to an acquaintance , who left the town and forgot to return it ...
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... pounds a - piece to each of his other grand - children . So totally unacquainted was I with the modes of transacting business , that I could not point out any method of having my ten pounds sent up to London , at least , no mode that ...
... pounds a - piece to each of his other grand - children . So totally unacquainted was I with the modes of transacting business , that I could not point out any method of having my ten pounds sent up to London , at least , no mode that ...
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... pounds would have gone the same way , had I not ( for fear of highwaymen ) sewed it up in my clothes . I recollected that Seneca had said , " A wise and good man is proof against all accidents of fate ; and that a brave man is a match ...
... pounds would have gone the same way , had I not ( for fear of highwaymen ) sewed it up in my clothes . I recollected that Seneca had said , " A wise and good man is proof against all accidents of fate ; and that a brave man is a match ...
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... pounds , I opened shop on Midsummer day 1774 , in Featherstone street , in the parish of St Luke ; and I was as well pleased in surveying my little shop with my name over it , as was Nebuchadnezzar , when he said , " Is not this great ...
... pounds , I opened shop on Midsummer day 1774 , in Featherstone street , in the parish of St Luke ; and I was as well pleased in surveying my little shop with my name over it , as was Nebuchadnezzar , when he said , " Is not this great ...
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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.