Winter Evenings, Or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, Volumen2John Ronalds, 1805 |
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... kind , as agitates moderately , not like the storm , but like the gentle breeze of a fine summer evening . Hobby - horses are very desirable at all ages ; but ne- cessary in old age , when the sources of amusement be- gin to fail . It ...
... kind , as agitates moderately , not like the storm , but like the gentle breeze of a fine summer evening . Hobby - horses are very desirable at all ages ; but ne- cessary in old age , when the sources of amusement be- gin to fail . It ...
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... kind operate on two very strong propensities of human nature , the love of money and the love of fame . Rivalry and competition add a power- ful spur to the minds of all men ; and are particularly efficacious among the candidates for ...
... kind operate on two very strong propensities of human nature , the love of money and the love of fame . Rivalry and competition add a power- ful spur to the minds of all men ; and are particularly efficacious among the candidates for ...
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... kind of game - keeper and huntsman to all the esquires around , acts as master of the ceremonies at all the little balls , and plays so keenly at whist ( for dunces often excel at cards ) , that most people are afraid to sit down with ...
... kind of game - keeper and huntsman to all the esquires around , acts as master of the ceremonies at all the little balls , and plays so keenly at whist ( for dunces often excel at cards ) , that most people are afraid to sit down with ...
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... kind , do not blossom till late in the season . But yet there are some who shew such symptoms of insuperable stupidity in learning , that after a reasonable trial , the limitation of which must be left to the parent's discretion , they ...
... kind , do not blossom till late in the season . But yet there are some who shew such symptoms of insuperable stupidity in learning , that after a reasonable trial , the limitation of which must be left to the parent's discretion , they ...
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... kind of parts , which are necessary to make a valuable proficiency in polite literature . Dunces not being troubled with any of those fine sensi- bilities , which form the poet , the philosopher , and the orator , have , in the room of ...
... kind of parts , which are necessary to make a valuable proficiency in polite literature . Dunces not being troubled with any of those fine sensi- bilities , which form the poet , the philosopher , and the orator , have , in the room of ...
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Página 128 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Página 209 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Página 209 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Página 208 - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom : but they could not. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
Página 28 - They will either teach you so to regulate your conduct as to be able to set the most malicious inquiries at defiance ; or, if that be a lost hope, they will teach you prudence enough not to attract the public attention to a character which will only pass without censure when it passes without observation.
Página 131 - All the Books of the Bible are either already most admirable, and exalted pieces of Poesie, or are the best Materials in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; None but a good Artist will know how to do it : neither must we think to cut and polish Diamonds with so little pains and skill as we do Marble. For if any man design to compose a Sacred Poem, by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter,...
Página 84 - Gramineae" — the last of the natural orders elaborated for the "Genera Plantarum": — " Much has been done, however, for the elucidation of the order in local Floras. Already at the close of the last century and the commencement of the present...
Página 273 - For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
Página 128 - A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, And the plague shall never depart from his house...
Página 132 - The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition ; and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.