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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... last her imagination was fired , and , with too much eagerness , the not only ridiculed the opinion of her fifter , in refpect to fuch things , but fpoke with too much warmth against the defpotic tempers of felf - fufficient husbands ...
... last her imagination was fired , and , with too much eagerness , the not only ridiculed the opinion of her fifter , in refpect to fuch things , but fpoke with too much warmth against the defpotic tempers of felf - fufficient husbands ...
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... last favour for the fake of the money which she can extract from him , and not from any perfonal affection , it is very natural to fuppofe that the failure of the one will deftroy even the appearance of the other . This was precisely ...
... last favour for the fake of the money which she can extract from him , and not from any perfonal affection , it is very natural to fuppofe that the failure of the one will deftroy even the appearance of the other . This was precisely ...
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... last yielded to the fuggestions of Ambition , and repaired with his gold to Damafcus , where , for a long time , he lived in obfcurity , not knowing how to avail himself of the treafure which had fallen into his hands . He fometimes re ...
... last yielded to the fuggestions of Ambition , and repaired with his gold to Damafcus , where , for a long time , he lived in obfcurity , not knowing how to avail himself of the treafure which had fallen into his hands . He fometimes re ...
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... last aspiration of your Pierre . " Here , unable to contain himself any longer , he broke from her , and , haftening to carry his firft defign into execution , furrendered himself to the Chief Magistrate ; who , after having asked him ...
... last aspiration of your Pierre . " Here , unable to contain himself any longer , he broke from her , and , haftening to carry his firft defign into execution , furrendered himself to the Chief Magistrate ; who , after having asked him ...
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... last the provident lady explained , by defiring to know how her daughter was to live in cafe of his death . The gentleman calmly answered , " I have one Indian wife , who intends to burn herself when I die ; but , Ma- dam , I will not ...
... last the provident lady explained , by defiring to know how her daughter was to live in cafe of his death . The gentleman calmly answered , " I have one Indian wife , who intends to burn herself when I die ; but , Ma- dam , I will not ...
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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.