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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... means capable , with all his fan- cied abilities , of bringing about the wifhed - for revolution . William , notwithstanding the complaints which his partial ad- miniftration of juftice fometimes occafioned among certain indivi- duals ...
... means capable , with all his fan- cied abilities , of bringing about the wifhed - for revolution . William , notwithstanding the complaints which his partial ad- miniftration of juftice fometimes occafioned among certain indivi- duals ...
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... means which they used . There are in truth other means lefs obvious , but more dangerous , by which as arbitrary a system of government may in fome future period be established amongst us , as already prevails in most of the ftates of ...
... means which they used . There are in truth other means lefs obvious , but more dangerous , by which as arbitrary a system of government may in fome future period be established amongst us , as already prevails in most of the ftates of ...
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... new paffion , and the means of conquering or gratifying it , the Countess received a courier , who brought her the melancholy news of her husband's death . -death . He had got out of captivity , but 52 THE WEEKLY MISCELLANY .
... new paffion , and the means of conquering or gratifying it , the Countess received a courier , who brought her the melancholy news of her husband's death . -death . He had got out of captivity , but 52 THE WEEKLY MISCELLANY .
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... means to fatisfy you without incurring the guilt of a crime .--- Having now made known to you my fentiments , take it not amifs , Sir , if I fhould endeavour to examine into your's , and to be af fured , if you do me the honour of ...
... means to fatisfy you without incurring the guilt of a crime .--- Having now made known to you my fentiments , take it not amifs , Sir , if I fhould endeavour to examine into your's , and to be af fured , if you do me the honour of ...
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... means the woman whom he would have chofen for a wife . In confequence of this compulfive alliance , he was not in the leaft forry to have a decent pretence for a removal from her . Eighteen fucceffive years had not been fufficient to ...
... means the woman whom he would have chofen for a wife . In confequence of this compulfive alliance , he was not in the leaft forry to have a decent pretence for a removal from her . Eighteen fucceffive years had not been fufficient to ...
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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.