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Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Company and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1814

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Página 437 - Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being
Página 53 - and narrowly escaped assassination. The title of the work alluded to is, " The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the late King James's Government, in which their Carriage towards him is justified, and the absolute Necessity of their endeavouring to be freed from his Government, and of submitting to their present Majesties, is demonstrated.
Página 436 - mourning coaches. The reason why so few marriages are happy, is, because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence
Página 284 - it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after; or supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable until the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years: which of these two cases would you make your choice
Página 70 - Thus, I have fairly given you, sir, my own opinion, as well as that of a great majority in both houses here, relating to this weighty affair; upon which I am confident you may securely reckon. I will leave you to make what use of it you please. I am, with great respect, sir,
Página 151 - THE MONTH, AND THE DAY OP THE MONTH, ARE SET DOWN, THE PERSONS NAMED, AND THE GREAT ACTIONS AND EVENTS OF NEXT YEAR PARTICULARLY RELATED, AS THEY WILL COME TO PASS. WRITTEN TO PREVENT THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND FROM BEING FARTHER IMPOSED ON BY VULGAR ALMANACK-MAKERS. By ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, ESQ.
Página 492 - This is the night of the funeral, which my sickness will not suffer me to attend. It is now nine at night; and I am removed into another apartment, that I may not see the light in the church, which is just over against the window of my bedchamber.
Página 436 - who, while their manes were on, that is, while they were in their beauty, would never admit the embraces of an ass? It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider. " Vive quidem, pende tamen, improba, dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants, by lopping
Página 246 - battalions, as numerous as they are, if they attack us too frequently in our coffeehouses, we shall certainly put them to flight, and cut off the rear. " The third refinement observable in the letter I send you, consists in the choice of certain words invented by some pretty fellows,
Página 427 - opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for, if his general thoughts on women were such as he exhibits, a very little sense in a lady would enrapture, and a very little virtue would astonish him. Stella's supremacy, therefore, was perhaps only local. She was great, because her associates were little.

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