The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... turning to Syrus , gave him this extemporary an- swer To stand the first is not the lot of all ; ' Tis now your turn to mount , and mine to fall : " Tis slippery ground ; beware you keep your feet ; For public favour is a public cheat ...
... turning to Syrus , gave him this extemporary an- swer To stand the first is not the lot of all ; ' Tis now your turn to mount , and mine to fall : " Tis slippery ground ; beware you keep your feet ; For public favour is a public cheat ...
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... turn ; his long and voluntary exile in the island of Rhodes , where he seemed for a time to have renounced all desire of succeeding to the empire , might be a reason with Augustus for making this experiment upon a man of his cold and ...
... turn ; his long and voluntary exile in the island of Rhodes , where he seemed for a time to have renounced all desire of succeeding to the empire , might be a reason with Augustus for making this experiment upon a man of his cold and ...
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... turn , did not come to any satisfactory conclusion on the point . Tiberius on his accession found the empire in a critical situation , for besides the movements which Clemens on one part and Scribonins Libo on another were making , the ...
... turn , did not come to any satisfactory conclusion on the point . Tiberius on his accession found the empire in a critical situation , for besides the movements which Clemens on one part and Scribonins Libo on another were making , the ...
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... turns the spirit of emulation into the gall of acrimony . Above all things let it be his inviolable maxim to distinguish strongly and pointedly in his attentions between men of virtuous morals and men of vicious : There is nothing so ...
... turns the spirit of emulation into the gall of acrimony . Above all things let it be his inviolable maxim to distinguish strongly and pointedly in his attentions between men of virtuous morals and men of vicious : There is nothing so ...
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... turn out amiss , to put us in mind how they dissuaded us from such and such an undertaking , that they foresaw what would happen , and that the event is neither more nor less than they expected and predicted . These retorts , cast in ...
... turn out amiss , to put us in mind how they dissuaded us from such and such an undertaking , that they foresaw what would happen , and that the event is neither more nor less than they expected and predicted . These retorts , cast in ...
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Seite 88 - Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Seite 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Seite 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Seite 119 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Seite 230 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Seite 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...
Seite 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Seite 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Seite 101 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent ; 52.
Seite 125 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.