The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a Collection of Select Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse; Curious Anecdotes, Instructive Tales, and Ingenious Essays on Different Subjects, Band 7R. Goadby, 1776 |
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... faculty , and become a mere fyftem of paffions and affections , without any thing at the head of them to govern them ; --- what then then can be expected but deficiency and deformity , degeneracy 2 THE WEEKLY MISCELLAN Y.
... faculty , and become a mere fyftem of paffions and affections , without any thing at the head of them to govern them ; --- what then then can be expected but deficiency and deformity , degeneracy 2 THE WEEKLY MISCELLAN Y.
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... affectionate parent . The follow- ing anecdote of him will fhew him at once in colours unpleafing and advantageous . Happily , indeed , for his subjects , he was , upon the whole , much more to be praised than condemned . The name of ...
... affectionate parent . The follow- ing anecdote of him will fhew him at once in colours unpleafing and advantageous . Happily , indeed , for his subjects , he was , upon the whole , much more to be praised than condemned . The name of ...
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... affectionate efteem for him , in order to draw from his purse the necessary supplies . When a woman only admits a man to the last favour for the fake of the money which she can extract from him , and not from any perfonal affection , it ...
... affectionate efteem for him , in order to draw from his purse the necessary supplies . When a woman only admits a man to the last favour for the fake of the money which she can extract from him , and not from any perfonal affection , it ...
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... AFFECTION . ONSIEUR DURAND , a very confiderable mer- chant in France , not only lived up to the utmost ex- My tent of his income , by gratifyinghis own tafte for all V kinds of expenfive amufements , but alfo indulged a very amiable ...
... AFFECTION . ONSIEUR DURAND , a very confiderable mer- chant in France , not only lived up to the utmost ex- My tent of his income , by gratifyinghis own tafte for all V kinds of expenfive amufements , but alfo indulged a very amiable ...
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... affectionate parent , tho ' by the facrifice of his own life , he inftantly hurried to the Lieute- nant of the Police to furrender himself . While he was haftening along , overwhelmed with a thousand torturing reflections , he palled ...
... affectionate parent , tho ' by the facrifice of his own life , he inftantly hurried to the Lieute- nant of the Police to furrender himself . While he was haftening along , overwhelmed with a thousand torturing reflections , he palled ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted affured againſt alfo almoſt Anfwer appear becauſe cafe caufe cauſe confequence confiderable defign defire difcovered drefs encreaſe fafe faid fame father favages fecond feemed feen fenfe fent fervants ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince firft firſt fituation fome fomething fometimes foon fortune fpirit ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofed fupport fure furprize give greateſt happineſs heart herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe huſband inferted intereft Iroquois itſelf juft King lady laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs live manner meaſure moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferved occafion paffed paffion perfon plant pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffible prefent preferve prifoners purpoſe raiſed reafon refpect rife ſhall ſhe ſmall ſpeak ſtate Steart ſtill Surena thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion underſtanding uſe vifit virtue weft whofe wife
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 295 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Seite 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Seite 222 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Seite 295 - I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Seite 222 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Seite 222 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Seite 222 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Seite 130 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...
Seite 295 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Seite 130 - ... insulted by his adversary, or despised by the world. It may be laid down as an unfailing and universal axiom, that " all pride is abject and mean.