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... pretty woman and a great fortune ; it vexed me a little , but not enough to make me neglect the advice of my cousin Wishwell , that came to see me the day my lord went into the country with Russel ; she told me experimentally , nothing ...
... pretty woman and a great fortune ; it vexed me a little , but not enough to make me neglect the advice of my cousin Wishwell , that came to see me the day my lord went into the country with Russel ; she told me experimentally , nothing ...
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... pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have wor- ried him if his brethren had not come to his assist- ance ; upon which , says my author , the dogs were all of them hanged , as having lost ...
... pretty late in the evening , the dogs flew at him with so much fury , that they would have wor- ried him if his brethren had not come to his assist- ance ; upon which , says my author , the dogs were all of them hanged , as having lost ...
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... pretty saying of Thales , IN Falsehood is just as far distant - from truth as the ears are from the eyes . " * By which he would inti- mate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the reports of actions which he has not seen ...
... pretty saying of Thales , IN Falsehood is just as far distant - from truth as the ears are from the eyes . " * By which he would inti- mate , that a wise man should not easily give credit to the reports of actions which he has not seen ...
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... favour with the fair sex . I am at present in the one - and- twentieth year of my age ; and should have made choice of a she bedfellow many years since , had 1 not my father , who has a pretty good estate 124 N ° 596 . SPECTATOR .
... favour with the fair sex . I am at present in the one - and- twentieth year of my age ; and should have made choice of a she bedfellow many years since , had 1 not my father , who has a pretty good estate 124 N ° 596 . SPECTATOR .
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British essayists James Ferguson (advocate). not my father , who has a pretty good estate of his own getting , and passes in the world for a prudent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , that nothing spoils a young fellow's ...
British essayists James Ferguson (advocate). not my father , who has a pretty good estate of his own getting , and passes in the world for a prudent man , been pleased to lay it down as a maxim , that nothing spoils a young fellow's ...
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Page 256 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. 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.
Page 71 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 256 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 239 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 114 - Pyrrhus's ring, which, as Pliny tells us, had the figure of Apollo and the nine Muses in the veins of it, produced by the spontaneous hand of nature, without any help from art.
Page 113 - ... there is more beauty in the works of a great genius, who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Page 49 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 62 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 278 - 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?
Page 144 - ... that we cannot believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which is of no use to it; that whenever any one of these faculties is transcendently pleased, the soul is in a state of happiness ; and in the last place, considering that the happiness of another world is to be the happiness of the whole man...