Miscellanea Nova: Containing, Amidst a Variety of Other Matters Curious and Interesting, Remarks on Boswell's Johnson, with Considerable Additions, and Some New Anecdotes of that Extraordinary Character : a Critique on Bürger's Leonora, in which She is Clearly Proved of English Extraction : and an Introductory Essay on the Art of Reading and Speaking in Public, in Two Parts

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Robert Marchbank, 1800 - 296 sider
 

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Side 18 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Side 172 - It was but this very morning that he had obtained her parents' consent, and it was but till the next week that they were to wait to be happy. Perhaps...
Side 3 - Good name, in man, and woman, Is the immediate jewel of their souls...
Side 164 - He had no sooner brought his men to the engagement, but finding himself utterly spent, he was again replaced in his litter, where, laying his finger on his mouth, to enjoin secrecy to his officers who stood about him, he died a few moments after, in that posture.
Side 52 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
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Side 173 - They perceived the barley all in a smoke ; and then spied this faithful pair, John with one arm about Sarah's neck, and the other held over her, as to screen her from the lightning.
Side 164 - ... that would happen to his children and people, in case he should die before he put an end to that war, he commanded his principal officers, that if he died during the engagement, they should conceal...
Side 44 - I wondered to hear him say of " Gulliver's Travels," " When once you have thought of big men and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest.
Side 172 - ... of their way to what shelter the trees and hedges afforded. Sarah was frightened and fell down in a swoon on a heap of barley. John, who never separated from her, sat down by her side, having raked together two or three heaps the better to secure her from the storm.

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