Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller. Written by himself, in 47 letters to a friendWhittaker Treacher & Arnot, 1827 |
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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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James Lackington. woman carried me privately to church , unknown to my 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 ...
James Lackington. woman carried me privately to church , unknown to my 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 ...
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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 ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted Alvestone appear asserted assured attended began believe bible bookseller Bristol called Christ Christian church dear friend death devil divine doubt Dr Johnson dreadful Epictetus Epicurus eyes faith father fear Francis Kirkman gentlemen give grace happened happy hear heard heart heaven holy honour HUDIBRAS imputed righteousness infidel informed John Dunton kind knew Lackington lady learned LETTER live Lord manner married master Memoirs Metho Methodists miles mind mistress Moorfields morning never night o'er observed once person Pindar pious pleased pleasure poor possessed pounds preach preachers purchased racter reason religion remarkable says sell sermon shillings SOAME JENYNS sold soon soul spirit Taunton thou thought thousand tion took town trade trifling virtue Voltaire week Wellington Wesley Wesley instituted Wesley's Wesley's chapel whole wife woman young
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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 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
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 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Página 291 - 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. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Página 220 - Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest.
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.
Página 50 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...