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... probably have remained , till my death , where some of them have lain twenty , thirty , forty and even fifty years . But " the Rubicon is passed . " It is too late to regret the course pursued and to whatever reception the volume may ...
... probably have remained , till my death , where some of them have lain twenty , thirty , forty and even fifty years . But " the Rubicon is passed . " It is too late to regret the course pursued and to whatever reception the volume may ...
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... probably publish separately what may be worthy of the public eye . PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION . Jan. 16 , 1794 . THE uncommon degree of favour which this pamphlet has experienced , has impressed me with lively sentiments of grati ...
... probably publish separately what may be worthy of the public eye . PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION . Jan. 16 , 1794 . THE uncommon degree of favour which this pamphlet has experienced , has impressed me with lively sentiments of grati ...
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... * The novel of Arthur Mervyn , by C. B. Brown , gives a vivid and terrify . ing picture , probably not too highly coloured , of the horrors of that period . D was delivered of a child , which died in a ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 25.
... * The novel of Arthur Mervyn , by C. B. Brown , gives a vivid and terrify . ing picture , probably not too highly coloured , of the horrors of that period . D was delivered of a child , which died in a ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 25.
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... Probably there never was one , of which the members were so regular in their attend- ance ; the meetings , at the worst of times — those times , which , to use Paine's emphatic language , " tried men's souls , " were composed , in ...
... Probably there never was one , of which the members were so regular in their attend- ance ; the meetings , at the worst of times — those times , which , to use Paine's emphatic language , " tried men's souls , " were composed , in ...
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... probably be reduced to for want of suitable persons to superintend the hospital , voluntarily offering their services for that benevolent employment , Resolved , That they be accepted , and that they be encouraged immediately to enter ...
... probably be reduced to for want of suitable persons to superintend the hospital , voluntarily offering their services for that benevolent employment , Resolved , That they be accepted , and that they be encouraged immediately to enter ...
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Sida 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Sida 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Sida 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Sida 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Sida 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Sida 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Sida 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Sida 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Sida 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Sida 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.