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Side ix
... facts are recent , as many of the most interesting occurrences of this awful visitation as I could , for the information of the public . I have not attempted any embellishment or ornament of style ; but have merely aimed at telling ...
... facts are recent , as many of the most interesting occurrences of this awful visitation as I could , for the information of the public . I have not attempted any embellishment or ornament of style ; but have merely aimed at telling ...
Side x
Mathew Carey. suggest facts , to be added to , a new edition , which I propose to put to press very soon , and which will , I hope , be found more ample than the present one . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . * November 23 , 1793 . WHEN I ...
Mathew Carey. suggest facts , to be added to , a new edition , which I propose to put to press very soon , and which will , I hope , be found more ample than the present one . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . * November 23 , 1793 . WHEN I ...
Side xi
... facts to enlarge and improve the work , I profess myself under great obligations . I request them to continue their kindness ; as , if public favour should give this trifle a fourth edition , I shall add all that may be communicated in ...
... facts to enlarge and improve the work , I profess myself under great obligations . I request them to continue their kindness ; as , if public favour should give this trifle a fourth edition , I shall add all that may be communicated in ...
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... . * It is a fact worthy of physiological consideration , that several of the members , of whom the writer of this pamphlet was one , have declared that Never , perhaps , was there a city in the 30 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 .
... . * It is a fact worthy of physiological consideration , that several of the members , of whom the writer of this pamphlet was one , have declared that Never , perhaps , was there a city in the 30 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 .
Side 31
... fact , government of every kind was almost wholly vacated , and seemed , by tacit , but universal consent , to be vested in the com- mittee . some of the most pleasurable hours of their existence were spent during the height of the ...
... fact , government of every kind was almost wholly vacated , and seemed , by tacit , but universal consent , to be vested in the com- mittee . some of the most pleasurable hours of their existence were spent during the height of the ...
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Side 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Side 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Side 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Side 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Side 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Side 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Side 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Side 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Side 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.