The Piozzi Letters: 1805-1810

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University of Delaware Press, 1989

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Editorial Principles
53
Letters
59
Index
325
Urheberrecht

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Seite 80 - ... the watch must have had a maker ; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Seite 74 - Come, listen to a tale of times of old ! Come, for ye know me. I am he who framed Of Thalaba the wild and wondrous song.
Seite 35 - Why, Sir that may be true in cases where learning cannot possibly be of any use; for instance, this boy rows us as well without learning, as if he could...
Seite 300 - ... not received a fall, and some of them two or three. I was assured that a year or two before my arrival, Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck, if one of the King's cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall.
Seite 125 - A Dissertation on the Gout, and all chronic Diseases, jointly considered, as proceeding from the same Causes; what those Causes are; and a rational and natural Method of Cure proposed.
Seite 98 - A Dissertation on the Prophecies that have been fulfilled, are now fulfilling, or will hereafter be fulfilled, relative to the great Period of 1260 Years, the Papal and Mohammedan Apostacies; the tyrannical Reign of Antichrist, or the infidel Power, and the Restoration of the Jews.
Seite 29 - Thraliana' is coming to an end ; so are the Thrales. The eldest is married now. Admiral Lord Keith the man ; a good man for ought I hear : a rich man for ought I am told : a brave man we have always heard: and a wise man I trow by his choice.
Seite 172 - Tis better to work hard for a short time, and have done with it. If I can but add three hundred a year to my present income, I shall be perfectly well provided for ; and I am resolved, when that is accomplished, to make no more positive engagements; in summer.

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