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 1
... acquainted in the houfe ; and as I was a remarker fo early in my life , I had an opportunity of making the following ob- fervations : Orlando Euftace was a tall , thin , ftrong man , well made , and a very genteel perfon . His face was ...
... acquainted in the houfe ; and as I was a remarker fo early in my life , I had an opportunity of making the following ob- fervations : Orlando Euftace was a tall , thin , ftrong man , well made , and a very genteel perfon . His face was ...
Pàgina 7
... acquainted him with the defign he had formed with regard to his elevation , and then requested him to forward the execution of it by his wife admonitions and secret affiftance . The Monk was ftruck with the boldness of the favourite's ...
... acquainted him with the defign he had formed with regard to his elevation , and then requested him to forward the execution of it by his wife admonitions and secret affiftance . The Monk was ftruck with the boldness of the favourite's ...
Pàgina 9
... acquainted with their intrinfic ( not current ) value : " When the Devil gets into a man's head , he is not eafily driven out . " Gerbert , notwithstanding the Monk's arguments and admoni- tions , felt himself ftill inclined to carry ...
... acquainted with their intrinfic ( not current ) value : " When the Devil gets into a man's head , he is not eafily driven out . " Gerbert , notwithstanding the Monk's arguments and admoni- tions , felt himself ftill inclined to carry ...
Pàgina 10
... acquainted with his ambitious views , informed his wife of them , who immediately disclosed her most interesting intelligence to the Dutchess . Clotilda , when the wife of Gerbert made her important dif- closure , was so astonished that ...
... acquainted with his ambitious views , informed his wife of them , who immediately disclosed her most interesting intelligence to the Dutchess . Clotilda , when the wife of Gerbert made her important dif- closure , was so astonished that ...
Pàgina 11
... acquainted Clo tilda with their fuccefs , and were fummoned foon afterwards to Court , in order to confront the false favourite , with these proofs in their hands . Gerbert , equally lulled into a state of delufion , by the flattering ...
... acquainted Clo tilda with their fuccefs , and were fummoned foon afterwards to Court , in order to confront the false favourite , with these proofs in their hands . Gerbert , equally lulled into a state of delufion , by the flattering ...
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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.