Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller: In Forty-seven Letters to a FriendWhittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 - 347 páginas |
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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 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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... pounds to twenty - five pounds . " London the public there are candid and generous , and before my merit can have time to create me enemies , I'll save money , and a fig for the Sultan and Sophy . ” — Rover . This immense stock I deemed ...
... pounds to twenty - five pounds . " London the public there are candid and generous , and before my merit can have time to create me enemies , I'll save money , and a fig for the Sultan and Sophy . ” — Rover . This immense stock I deemed ...
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Página 347 - 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 294 - 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 96 - 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 the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 168 - 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 114 - 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 161 - 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 294 - 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 252 - But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Página 119 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Página 347 - 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.