Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished NorthernsWhitaker, Treacher, 1833 - 732 páginas |
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... common life , can be drawn from it ; because it excites no sense of reality . It is gone through as a task , —by children on compulsion , by young people as a merit . The most remarkable thing about your history - reading young ladies ...
... common life , can be drawn from it ; because it excites no sense of reality . It is gone through as a task , —by children on compulsion , by young people as a merit . The most remarkable thing about your history - reading young ladies ...
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... common consent , to have not only all the divinity , but more wit too , than all the rest of the family put together . " The short graces and sermons , all candidates for preferment will do well to imitate ; but mimical ways should ...
... common consent , to have not only all the divinity , but more wit too , than all the rest of the family put together . " The short graces and sermons , all candidates for preferment will do well to imitate ; but mimical ways should ...
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... common places , that some sceptical persons have held that there is as little truth in the one as in the other . However , we believe it to have been founded in fact , and that the mistake has been in the dulness of those who took a ...
... common places , that some sceptical persons have held that there is as little truth in the one as in the other . However , we believe it to have been founded in fact , and that the mistake has been in the dulness of those who took a ...
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... common - place roystering Roy- alists were seldom sober enough to read , and the mob - fanatics did not know their letters . Moreover , the mere celebrity of a man , in one respect , sometimes throws a temporary shade over his ...
... common - place roystering Roy- alists were seldom sober enough to read , and the mob - fanatics did not know their letters . Moreover , the mere celebrity of a man , in one respect , sometimes throws a temporary shade over his ...
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... common did , or mean , Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye , The axe's edge did trye . Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight , To vindicate his helplesse right : But bow'd his comely head Downe , as upon a bed . This ...
... common did , or mean , Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye , The axe's edge did trye . Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight , To vindicate his helplesse right : But bow'd his comely head Downe , as upon a bed . This ...
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Página 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Página 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Página 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Página 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Página 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Página 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Página 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Página 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.