Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces: With Letters Containing a Comparative View of the Modes of Living, Arts, Commerce, Literature, Manners, &c. of Edinburgh, at Different PeriodsA collection of essays which mostly appeared in the Edinburgh Courant, the Caledonian Mercury, and the Edinburgh Gazette; edited and for the most part writtten by William Creech. |
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... means of insuring more fortunate measures . Lord North , who was appointed prime mini- ster in February 1770 , and had stood the storm of opposition for twelve years , was forced to re- tire from his station , thanking the House of Com ...
... means of insuring more fortunate measures . Lord North , who was appointed prime mini- ster in February 1770 , and had stood the storm of opposition for twelve years , was forced to re- tire from his station , thanking the House of Com ...
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... mean to challenge an undertaker's bill when the tear is in the eye . But families may now have all the splendour of a magnificent fu- neral at a very easy rate , by applying to the advertiser , who has invented the most elegant slipping ...
... mean to challenge an undertaker's bill when the tear is in the eye . But families may now have all the splendour of a magnificent fu- neral at a very easy rate , by applying to the advertiser , who has invented the most elegant slipping ...
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... means ? Shall the tender affections and blessings of the parent be turned to agony and curses against his child , for thy brutal baseness ? Dastardly reptile ! if thou hast no morals , or if thou hast no delicacy , show some sense by ...
... means ? Shall the tender affections and blessings of the parent be turned to agony and curses against his child , for thy brutal baseness ? Dastardly reptile ! if thou hast no morals , or if thou hast no delicacy , show some sense by ...
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... mean flattery , which was neither wished for nor expected . Such praise defames ; as if a fool should mean , By spitting on your face , to make it clean . Nor will his compliment , as the successor of Junius , be received . The applause ...
... mean flattery , which was neither wished for nor expected . Such praise defames ; as if a fool should mean , By spitting on your face , to make it clean . Nor will his compliment , as the successor of Junius , be received . The applause ...
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... mean vice , and the man who is so incapable of heroic actions . It is the confession he makes of sorrow and regret that at present sweetens the ink of this pen , and prevents it from turning into gall ; and it is well that such kindly ...
... mean vice , and the man who is so incapable of heroic actions . It is the confession he makes of sorrow and regret that at present sweetens the ink of this pen , and prevents it from turning into gall ; and it is well that such kindly ...
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Page 230 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant, barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, — 'tis nought to me : Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 138 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 149 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 97 - Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 253 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 170 - Free and unquestion'd, through the wilds of love; While woman, sense and nature's easy fool, If poor weak woman swerve from, virtue's rule, If, strongly charm'd, she leave the thorny way, And in the softer paths of pleasure stray, Ruin ensues, reproach and endless shame, And one false step entirely damns her fame: In vain with tears the loss she may deplore, In vain look back on what she was before; She sets, like stars that fall, to rise no more.
Page 175 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 200 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 332 - ... 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, 40 they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 179 - She never interrupted any person who spoke; she laughed at no mistakes they made, but helped them out with modesty; and if a good thing were spoken, but neglected, she would not let it fall, but set it in the best light to those who were present.