Select British Classics, Volym 37J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... greater advantage from the example of successful merit , than the deserving man himself can possibly be possessed of Your country knows how eminently you excel in the several parts of military skill ; whether in as- signing the ...
... greater advantage from the example of successful merit , than the deserving man himself can possibly be possessed of Your country knows how eminently you excel in the several parts of military skill ; whether in as- signing the ...
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... greater candour and simplicity of mind than " in yourself . You are a man that are not inclined " to launch into the world , but prefer security and 66 ease in a collegiate or single life , to going into the cares which necessarily ...
... greater candour and simplicity of mind than " in yourself . You are a man that are not inclined " to launch into the world , but prefer security and 66 ease in a collegiate or single life , to going into the cares which necessarily ...
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... greater sums than half the income of their lands amount to , though it is vi- sible all which gave rise to their wealth was a slight salary , for turning all the rest , both estate and credit of that estate , to the use of their ...
... greater sums than half the income of their lands amount to , though it is vi- sible all which gave rise to their wealth was a slight salary , for turning all the rest , both estate and credit of that estate , to the use of their ...
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... greater , than any man else can bear you . As for any defects which o thers may pretend to discover in you , I do faithfully declare I was never able to perceive them ; and doubt not but those persons are actuated purely by a spirit of ...
... greater , than any man else can bear you . As for any defects which o thers may pretend to discover in you , I do faithfully declare I was never able to perceive them ; and doubt not but those persons are actuated purely by a spirit of ...
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... greater command of reason when I was to judge of what concerned my Wards , and consequently was not prompted , by my partiality and fondness towards their persons , to trangress against their interests . As the female part of a family ...
... greater command of reason when I was to judge of what concerned my Wards , and consequently was not prompted , by my partiality and fondness towards their persons , to trangress against their interests . As the female part of a family ...
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Sida 181 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Sida 259 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Sida 163 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Sida 300 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Sida 198 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Sida 277 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few ., Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
Sida 107 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Sida 398 - To Make an Episode. — Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work, without the least damage to the composition.
Sida 213 - Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Sida 164 - Our scene precariously subsists too long On French translation, and Italian song : Dare to have sense yourselves ; assert the stage, Be justly warm'd with your own native rage. Such plays alone should please a British ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. ' Britons attend .-] Altered thus by the author, from " Britons arise," to humour, we are told, the timid delicacy of Mr.