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... MOST FAITHFUL , AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT , THE AUTHOR . то T. B. P .-- A. P. -- F. P..
... MOST FAITHFUL , AND MOST OBEDIENT SERVANT , THE AUTHOR . то T. B. P .-- A. P. -- F. P..
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... account , a strict at- tention has been paid to truth and nature . No improbabilities are rela- ted ; * Longum iter per precepta ; breve et efficax per exempla . SENECA . ted ; and most of the narrations are conformable to xii PREFACE .
... account , a strict at- tention has been paid to truth and nature . No improbabilities are rela- ted ; * Longum iter per precepta ; breve et efficax per exempla . SENECA . ted ; and most of the narrations are conformable to xii PREFACE .
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... most proper and ex- preffive may be learned , with no lefs facility , than the vulgar and fami- liar forms of speech . It will be acknowledged that these are highly interesting and important objects ; but the attainment of them muft ...
... most proper and ex- preffive may be learned , with no lefs facility , than the vulgar and fami- liar forms of speech . It will be acknowledged that these are highly interesting and important objects ; but the attainment of them muft ...
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... most valuable advan- tages which can be derived from the compleatest education . For half of what we learn in youth is foon loft in oblivion ; and ferves only for the exercise and improvement of our capacities . capacities . So limited ...
... most valuable advan- tages which can be derived from the compleatest education . For half of what we learn in youth is foon loft in oblivion ; and ferves only for the exercise and improvement of our capacities . capacities . So limited ...
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... present life . AN AFFECTION TO PARENTS . N amiable youth was lamenting , in terms of the fincereft grief , the death of a most affectionate parent . His com- panion endeavoured to confole him by the reflection , that panion MORAL TALES .
... present life . AN AFFECTION TO PARENTS . N amiable youth was lamenting , in terms of the fincereft grief , the death of a most affectionate parent . His com- panion endeavoured to confole him by the reflection , that panion MORAL TALES .
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Página 142 - And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Página 142 - And he said, My son shall not go down with you ; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone ; if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Página 142 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Página 142 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página 142 - Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way : and thus did he unto them.
Página 145 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen ; and ye shall haste, and bring down my father hither.
Página 145 - And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen; and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee, (for yet there are five years of famine,) lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Página xxiv - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 93 - I'll lay my life the thing is blue." "And I'll be sworn, that when you've seen The reptile, you'll pronounce him green." "Well, then, at once to ease the doubt," Replies the man, "I'll turn him out; And when before your eyes I've set him, If you don't find him black, I'll eat him...
Página 12 - Yon house, erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road ; For plenty there a residence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the...