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 7
... must confider alfo , that the pre- judices which the majority of the nation have conceived againft you as a favourite , will operate , it is probable , ftrongly against your designs : your enemies will rejoice at your fall ; they will ...
... must confider alfo , that the pre- judices which the majority of the nation have conceived againft you as a favourite , will operate , it is probable , ftrongly against your designs : your enemies will rejoice at your fall ; they will ...
Pàgina 17
... must neceffarily create a dependence , which will foon put an end to this dream of liberty . Have you a mind to fix your power on a fure and lafting bafis , fix it on the vices of mankind : fet up private intereft against public ; apply ...
... must neceffarily create a dependence , which will foon put an end to this dream of liberty . Have you a mind to fix your power on a fure and lafting bafis , fix it on the vices of mankind : fet up private intereft against public ; apply ...
Pàgina 20
... must live enclos'd in lonely walls . Spoil'd of its purple flow'rs , lies waste the plain ; The grafs is ever wet with foaking rain . I fee the trees refign their leafy pride , Fell Boreas rage , and spread deftruction wide ; The ...
... must live enclos'd in lonely walls . Spoil'd of its purple flow'rs , lies waste the plain ; The grafs is ever wet with foaking rain . I fee the trees refign their leafy pride , Fell Boreas rage , and spread deftruction wide ; The ...
Pàgina 24
... must the dimenfions of the ellip- fis be ? A QUESTION , by R. White . THERE is a cone whofe diameter at the bafe is = 29 , and the altitude 47 ; it is required to find a diameter on the fame altitude = 47 ; that shall be = 15 . How far ...
... must the dimenfions of the ellip- fis be ? A QUESTION , by R. White . THERE is a cone whofe diameter at the bafe is = 29 , and the altitude 47 ; it is required to find a diameter on the fame altitude = 47 ; that shall be = 15 . How far ...
Pàgina 27
... must not linger --- Adieu ! --- May you ever be happy ! --- This shall be the last aspiration of your Pierre . " Here , unable to contain himself any longer , he broke from her , and , haftening to carry his firft defign into execution ...
... must not linger --- Adieu ! --- May you ever be happy ! --- This shall be the last aspiration of your Pierre . " Here , unable to contain himself any longer , he broke from her , and , haftening to carry his firft defign into execution ...
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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.