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Pàgina 4
... perhaps , have been happier , and I am sure I could have been richer , had I been brought up to my paternal awl and last . My poor father died about two years ago , and I have reason to think , his disappointment and sorrow for my ill ...
... perhaps , have been happier , and I am sure I could have been richer , had I been brought up to my paternal awl and last . My poor father died about two years ago , and I have reason to think , his disappointment and sorrow for my ill ...
Pàgina 7
... , of that kind , which tend to prevent the poor labourer from wasting his valuable time , might , perhaps , be neither unjust , nor in any respect attended with inconvenience . But the Game Laws , MORAL AND LITERARY . ng.
... , of that kind , which tend to prevent the poor labourer from wasting his valuable time , might , perhaps , be neither unjust , nor in any respect attended with inconvenience . But the Game Laws , MORAL AND LITERARY . ng.
Pàgina 8
... perhaps the only one , of general and national concern ; associations having been formed all over the kingdom to prevent its destructive progress ; I mean the offence of destroying such beasts and fowls as are ranked under the ...
... perhaps the only one , of general and national concern ; associations having been formed all over the kingdom to prevent its destructive progress ; I mean the offence of destroying such beasts and fowls as are ranked under the ...
Pàgina 16
... perhaps in every mind when it is totally uncultivated . Culture of the understanding is , indeed , one of the best methods of subduing the heart to softness , and redeeming it from that savage state in which it too often comes from the ...
... perhaps in every mind when it is totally uncultivated . Culture of the understanding is , indeed , one of the best methods of subduing the heart to softness , and redeeming it from that savage state in which it too often comes from the ...
Pàgina 19
... perhaps , saved as many from an ignominious end as the Beggar's Opera has hastened to it . That any moralist , or man of observation , can entertain a doubt concerning the effect on the upper gallery , of a play in which thieves and ...
... perhaps , saved as many from an ignominious end as the Beggar's Opera has hastened to it . That any moralist , or man of observation , can entertain a doubt concerning the effect on the upper gallery , of a play in which thieves and ...
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Pàgina 574 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pàgina 497 - What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back? 6. Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs? 7. Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob; 8.
Pàgina 587 - Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings ; be learned, ye that are judges of the earth. 11 Serve the LORD in fear, and rejoice unto him with reverence. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way : if his wrath be kindled, yea but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Pàgina 150 - And now, gentlemen, on this serious day when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune. It is not alleged that, to...
Pàgina 176 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Pàgina 139 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Pàgina 173 - Scripture beautifully expresses it, walking in the ways of his own heart, and in the sight of his own eyes.
Pàgina 151 - No ! the charges against me are all of one kind : that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far, — further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Pàgina 336 - Jesus, or upon any of his friends, nor thrown out one reflection against his enemies : although much of both kinds might have been, and no doubt would have been done by them, had they been governed either by a spirit of imposture or enthusiasm. Christ's life is not praised...
Pàgina 496 - ... does create in us those virtues which reason of herself never knew, and, after they are known, could never approve sufficiently. It is a doctrine in which nothing is superfluous or burdensome, nor yet is there any thing wanting which can procure happiness to mankind, or by which God can be glorified...