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... racter in so robust a hand . " So scrupulous have I been in faithfully rendering these pieces , that I have commonly preserved most of the original words , with only a slight alteration of the orthography , and sometimes of the ar ...
... racter in so robust a hand . " So scrupulous have I been in faithfully rendering these pieces , that I have commonly preserved most of the original words , with only a slight alteration of the orthography , and sometimes of the ar ...
Side 356
... racter and fashion of the world . In preceding ages , even down to the middle of the last century , the grand principles inculcated on noble youth , by parents and preceptors , were the fear and love of God , and a high sense of honour ...
... racter and fashion of the world . In preceding ages , even down to the middle of the last century , the grand principles inculcated on noble youth , by parents and preceptors , were the fear and love of God , and a high sense of honour ...
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... character of a sthenic diathesis which he ascribes to insanity . " The next thing worthy of attention , is the author's cha- racter of maniacal paroxysms not depending upon the nature of the exciting causes , but upon the constitution ...
... character of a sthenic diathesis which he ascribes to insanity . " The next thing worthy of attention , is the author's cha- racter of maniacal paroxysms not depending upon the nature of the exciting causes , but upon the constitution ...
Side 517
... racter of the times in which he lived , and to detail the pro- gress of the literature , arts , manners , and general improve- ment of Scotland , during the greater part of the 1807. ] Memoirs of the Hon . Henry Home of Kames . 517.
... racter of the times in which he lived , and to detail the pro- gress of the literature , arts , manners , and general improve- ment of Scotland , during the greater part of the 1807. ] Memoirs of the Hon . Henry Home of Kames . 517.
Side 615
... racter , is he to get employment ? The season itself in which he must apply for it , just on a gaol delivery , his own sallow counte- nance , and his tattered garments too evidently betray whence he has been discharged , for any body to ...
... racter , is he to get employment ? The season itself in which he must apply for it , just on a gaol delivery , his own sallow counte- nance , and his tattered garments too evidently betray whence he has been discharged , for any body to ...
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Side 385 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Side 278 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Side 91 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Side 385 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Side 279 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Side 465 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Side 98 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Side 308 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Side 280 - His funds were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained therefore competent to that expensive establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon him ; and to those donations which real distress has a right to claim from opulence. He made no pretensions to that vivacity which fascinates, or to that wit which dazzles, and frequently imposes on the understanding. More...
Side 47 - This soone past into a mutuall friendship betweene them, and though she innocently thought nothing of love, yet was she glad to have acquir'd such a friend, who had wisedome and vertue enough to be trusted with her...