The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Band 34Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1855 |
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... took his degree of bachelor of arts the 27th February , 1749 . Mr. Flinn . Here he remained a twelvemonth , when he taxed one of the family with cheat- ing at cards and lost his office . He went back to Ballymahon with thirty pounds and ...
... took his degree of bachelor of arts the 27th February , 1749 . Mr. Flinn . Here he remained a twelvemonth , when he taxed one of the family with cheat- ing at cards and lost his office . He went back to Ballymahon with thirty pounds and ...
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... took his departure in February 1755 , he was obliged to a fellow - student for the loan which was to carry him on his way . Imme- diately afterwards he passed the shop of a florist , saw some costly tulip - roots , which were things ...
... took his departure in February 1755 , he was obliged to a fellow - student for the loan which was to carry him on his way . Imme- diately afterwards he passed the shop of a florist , saw some costly tulip - roots , which were things ...
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for the work . Two or three of those from whom he expected most took no notice of his application , and verified the playful prediction | in one of his letters of this date , which dis- tinctly prefigures Mr. Forster and Mr. Cun ...
for the work . Two or three of those from whom he expected most took no notice of his application , and verified the playful prediction | in one of his letters of this date , which dis- tinctly prefigures Mr. Forster and Mr. Cun ...
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... took railing for wit . He had witnessed the habits and tastes of the class . After he had pain which their censures inflicted , and the acquired celebrity , and was admitted to the injury done to books by their oracular abuse . society ...
... took railing for wit . He had witnessed the habits and tastes of the class . After he had pain which their censures inflicted , and the acquired celebrity , and was admitted to the injury done to books by their oracular abuse . society ...
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... took pleasure in introducing Gold- smith to his eminent acquaintances , but he had not brought him into contact with his old pupil , for a bad feeling had long existed between the actor and the poet . It was the latter that laid the ...
... took pleasure in introducing Gold- smith to his eminent acquaintances , but he had not brought him into contact with his old pupil , for a bad feeling had long existed between the actor and the poet . It was the latter that laid the ...
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Seite 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Seite 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 5 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Seite 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 152 - ... of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
Seite 105 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Seite 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
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