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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Resultats 1 - 5 de 73.
Pàgina 8
... obliged to re- fufe his laft requeft ; affuring him , that whenever the public good was not immediately concerned in the denial , his every other fu- ture request should be granted . Gerbert , Gerbert , pretending to be deeply affected ...
... obliged to re- fufe his laft requeft ; affuring him , that whenever the public good was not immediately concerned in the denial , his every other fu- ture request should be granted . Gerbert , Gerbert , pretending to be deeply affected ...
Pàgina 17
... obliged , at Ballyshannon , to leap up this cafcade ; and it is hardly credible , but to thofe who have been eye - witneffes , that these fish should be able to dart themselves near fourteen feet perpendicular out of the water ; and ...
... obliged , at Ballyshannon , to leap up this cafcade ; and it is hardly credible , but to thofe who have been eye - witneffes , that these fish should be able to dart themselves near fourteen feet perpendicular out of the water ; and ...
Pàgina 38
... obliged to pay my wife for liv- ing ill with me , as much as I should for living well ? No ; I will never wed a woman who is fo determined to rebel against her hus- band , that she articles for it in the very contract of her marriage ...
... obliged to pay my wife for liv- ing ill with me , as much as I should for living well ? No ; I will never wed a woman who is fo determined to rebel against her hus- band , that she articles for it in the very contract of her marriage ...
Pàgina 49
... obliged the King to fend General William Montague , with a confiderable force , to fecure his frontiers . Montague repelled the enemy , and , by a thousand illuftrious ac- tions , merited the title of Earl of Salisbury , which his ...
... obliged the King to fend General William Montague , with a confiderable force , to fecure his frontiers . Montague repelled the enemy , and , by a thousand illuftrious ac- tions , merited the title of Earl of Salisbury , which his ...
Pàgina 73
... obliged to take a step which strongly militated againft his inclination . Upon his arrival in that part of the American continent to which his regiment had been previously ordered , he was received in a manner which gave him the moft ...
... obliged to take a step which strongly militated againft his inclination . Upon his arrival in that part of the American continent to which his regiment had been previously ordered , he was received in a manner which gave him the moft ...
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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.