Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 sider |
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Side 36
... live very fo- ciably together , tho ' most of their preach- ers hate one another almost as cordially as a Fanfenift damns a Jefuit . TAKE a view of the Royal - Exchange in London , a place more venerable than many courts of juftice ...
... live very fo- ciably together , tho ' most of their preach- ers hate one another almost as cordially as a Fanfenift damns a Jefuit . TAKE a view of the Royal - Exchange in London , a place more venerable than many courts of juftice ...
Side 37
... fibly become arbitrary ; if there were but two , the people wou'd cut one another's throats ; but as there are fuch a multitude , they all live happy , and in peace . LET- LETTER ΟΝ ΤΗΕ VII . SOCINIANS , OR ARIAN OR the ENGLISH NATION . 37.
... fibly become arbitrary ; if there were but two , the people wou'd cut one another's throats ; but as there are fuch a multitude , they all live happy , and in peace . LET- LETTER ΟΝ ΤΗΕ VII . SOCINIANS , OR ARIAN OR the ENGLISH NATION . 37.
Side 48
... lives and for- tunes of his conquer'd fubjects as an eaftern Monarch ; and forbid , upon pain of death , the English both fire or candle in their houfes after eight o'clock . Whether he did this to prevent their nocturnal meet- ings ...
... lives and for- tunes of his conquer'd fubjects as an eaftern Monarch ; and forbid , upon pain of death , the English both fire or candle in their houfes after eight o'clock . Whether he did this to prevent their nocturnal meet- ings ...
Side 58
... live , and where he di- ed . This cuftom , which begins how- ever to be laid afide , appears monftrous to Germans , vainly puffed up with their Extraction . These think it morally im- poffible that the fon of an English Peer fhould be ...
... live , and where he di- ed . This cuftom , which begins how- ever to be laid afide , appears monftrous to Germans , vainly puffed up with their Extraction . These think it morally im- poffible that the fon of an English Peer fhould be ...
Side 65
... lives doubly ; for she not only fav'd them from the gallows , but , by means of this artificial Small - pox , prevent- ed their ever having that distemper in a natural way , with which they would very probably have been attack'd one ...
... lives doubly ; for she not only fav'd them from the gallows , but , by means of this artificial Small - pox , prevent- ed their ever having that distemper in a natural way , with which they would very probably have been attack'd one ...
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Side 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Side 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Side 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Side 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Side 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Side 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Side 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Side 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Side 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Side 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.