The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a Collection of Select Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse; Curious Anecdotes, Instructive Tales, and Ingenious Essays on Different Subjects, Volum 7R. Goadby, 1776 |
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Pàgina 139
... same time let us do juftice to the Addreffor ; let us hope that his performance originated from a warm , tho ' mistaken zeal ; let us applaud fuch of his fentiments ( if any fuch there be ) as . are founded in truth and duty ; but let ...
... same time let us do juftice to the Addreffor ; let us hope that his performance originated from a warm , tho ' mistaken zeal ; let us applaud fuch of his fentiments ( if any fuch there be ) as . are founded in truth and duty ; but let ...
Pàgina 166
... same , to G. Kite's Question , inserted July 29 , FIRST admitting the diameter of the earth to be 7964 miles , we have 7964 × 7964 × 3.1416 = 199256909.9136 fquare miles , the fuperfices of the fphere or globe of the earth ; and fince a ...
... same , to G. Kite's Question , inserted July 29 , FIRST admitting the diameter of the earth to be 7964 miles , we have 7964 × 7964 × 3.1416 = 199256909.9136 fquare miles , the fuperfices of the fphere or globe of the earth ; and fince a ...
Pàgina 421
... same time ; and he , with an equal înare of mock - politenefs , demanded his wife's fortune . To this demand Monf . de Velour returned a pofitive denial.— " " Tis very well , Sir , " replied Niveau , in a fpirited tone : " then I fhall ...
... same time ; and he , with an equal înare of mock - politenefs , demanded his wife's fortune . To this demand Monf . de Velour returned a pofitive denial.— " " Tis very well , Sir , " replied Niveau , in a fpirited tone : " then I fhall ...
Pàgina 456
... same state as fome of the wilds in America that are just beginning to be cultivated . Some little fpots where the woods are cleared away , juft ferve to fhew the natural fertility of the foil , and what such a country might be brought ...
... same state as fome of the wilds in America that are just beginning to be cultivated . Some little fpots where the woods are cleared away , juft ferve to fhew the natural fertility of the foil , and what such a country might be brought ...
Pàgina 457
... same state as when the barbarous nations left it , and I believe it is hard to fay whether their tyranny or that of Spain has been the most oppref- five . After the eruption of these nations , and during the time of the dark and ...
... same state as when the barbarous nations left it , and I believe it is hard to fay whether their tyranny or that of Spain has been the most oppref- five . After the eruption of these nations , and during the time of the dark and ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 295 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Pàgina 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Pàgina 222 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Pàgina 295 - I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Pàgina 222 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pàgina 222 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Pàgina 222 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Pàgina 130 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...
Pàgina 295 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Pàgina 130 - ... insulted by his adversary, or despised by the world. It may be laid down as an unfailing and universal axiom, that " all pride is abject and mean.