The Fool of Quality: Or, the History of Henry, Earl of Moreland, Volum 5

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Edward Johnston, 1777
 

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Pàgina 53 - For, we know that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diflblved, we have a building of GOD, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Pàgina 96 - With fhows inftead, mere fhows of feeming pure, And banifh'd from man's life his happieft life, Simplicity and fpotlefs innocence ! So pafs'd they naked on, nor fhunn'd the fight Of God or Angel, for they thought no illi 3io.
Pàgina 193 - Clinton, at a diftance of many millions of leagues from you ; and yet you fee it as evidently, and feel its influence as powerfully, as if it were within your reach. Nay it is more than within your reach, it is within your...
Pàgina 203 - It. desires, it craves, and claims as its right, the loves, attachments, and respects of all mankind. But does it acquire them, my Harry ? O never, never ! Self never was beloved, never will be beloved, never was honourable or respectable in the eye of any creature. And the characters of the patriot, the hero, the friend, and the lover, are only so far amiable, so far reverable, as they are supposed to have gone forth from the confines of self.
Pàgina 77 - I would choose to confer charity. I look upon the money amassed by the wealthy, to have been already extracted from the earnings of the poor; the poor farmer, the poor craftsman, the hard-handed peasant, and the day labourer, whose seven children perhaps subsist on lie milk of a couple of cows.

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