The British Essayists: The worldT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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Side 25
... kind of iniquity cannot fail , in the end , of endangering her political health . One should be apt to believe that our own soil was not pregnant enough with vice , while we are daily adopting every exotic folly . Our natural enemy ...
... kind of iniquity cannot fail , in the end , of endangering her political health . One should be apt to believe that our own soil was not pregnant enough with vice , while we are daily adopting every exotic folly . Our natural enemy ...
Side 29
... kind , had their parents taken the Indian method of marking their faces to distinguish their quality . As it is , their unlucky persons have led them astray into pertness and affectation , under a notion of po- liteness ; and what ought ...
... kind , had their parents taken the Indian method of marking their faces to distinguish their quality . As it is , their unlucky persons have led them astray into pertness and affectation , under a notion of po- liteness ; and what ought ...
Side 30
... kind might be extremely useful to the state : the li- terary world would I am sure be the better for it ; for what mother could be averse to having her sons taught to read , when perhaps the eye - lashes were gone , and the eyes ...
... kind might be extremely useful to the state : the li- terary world would I am sure be the better for it ; for what mother could be averse to having her sons taught to read , when perhaps the eye - lashes were gone , and the eyes ...
Side 33
... kind ; and so indeed are those upon architecture , as far as they go : but methinks you have not carried your obser- vations quite far enough ; nor have you any where remarked the injustice and ingratitude with which those worthy ...
... kind ; and so indeed are those upon architecture , as far as they go : but methinks you have not carried your obser- vations quite far enough ; nor have you any where remarked the injustice and ingratitude with which those worthy ...
Side 35
... kind ; and I have heard that there is a design against the meeting of the new parliament to fit up St. Stephen's chapel with Chinese benches , and a throne , from the model of that on which the eastern monarch distributes justice to his ...
... kind ; and I have heard that there is a design against the meeting of the new parliament to fit up St. Stephen's chapel with Chinese benches , and a throne , from the model of that on which the eastern monarch distributes justice to his ...
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Side 53 - ... and better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem, his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop trading all day without his religion.
Side 97 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.
Side 2 - To advise the ignorant, relieve the needy, comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives. A man has frequent opportunities of mitigating the fierceness of a party; of doing justice to the character of a...
Side 229 - It must be owned, that our language is, at present, in a state of anarchy, and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it. During our free and open trade, many words and expressions have been imported, adopted, and naturalized from other languages, which have greatly enriched our own. Let it still preserve what...
Side 219 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Side 82 - They are both of them women in years, and alike in birth, fortune, education, and accomplishments. They were originally alike in temper too ; but by different management are grown the reverse of each other. Arachne has accustomed herself to look only on the dark side of every object. If a new...
Side 35 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Side 20 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Side 52 - What does he therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be.
Side 158 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.