The Great English Letter Writers, Volume 1William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson Fleming H. Revell Company, 1908 - Letter-writing |
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... fear that , kind and benevolent as you are , these repeated attacks upon your patience may compel you to withdraw your assistance and leave me to lament the importunity of my applications . These reasons , however , do not balance their ...
... fear that , kind and benevolent as you are , these repeated attacks upon your patience may compel you to withdraw your assistance and leave me to lament the importunity of my applications . These reasons , however , do not balance their ...
Page 67
... fear me , to trespass too much upon your patience ; I leave the further disquisition of this point to your own contemplations , who are a far riper philosopher than I ; and have waded deeper into , and drunk more of Aristotle's well ...
... fear me , to trespass too much upon your patience ; I leave the further disquisition of this point to your own contemplations , who are a far riper philosopher than I ; and have waded deeper into , and drunk more of Aristotle's well ...
Page 71
... fear there is no such pleasure allotted me in the book of fate : the Alps were once molehills in my sight when they interposed between me and the slightest inclination ; now age begins to freeze , and brings with it the usual train of ...
... fear there is no such pleasure allotted me in the book of fate : the Alps were once molehills in my sight when they interposed between me and the slightest inclination ; now age begins to freeze , and brings with it the usual train of ...
Page 100
... fear the fish should be over - dressed . How ' Sir Robert Walpole , afterwards Earl of Orford , of whom Horace Walpole was the third son . different my sensations ! not a picture here but recalls 100 ONE DAY IN HIS LIFE.
... fear the fish should be over - dressed . How ' Sir Robert Walpole , afterwards Earl of Orford , of whom Horace Walpole was the third son . different my sensations ! not a picture here but recalls 100 ONE DAY IN HIS LIFE.
Page 122
... fear those boys should get drunk , the struggles I underwent in a contest of feeling between hospitality and prudence , must ever remain un- told . I feel , even now , old with the anxiety of that tre- mendous hour . They were very good ...
... fear those boys should get drunk , the struggles I underwent in a contest of feeling between hospitality and prudence , must ever remain un- told . I feel , even now , old with the anxiety of that tre- mendous hour . They were very good ...
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Page 198 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Page 208 - I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 198 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Page 13 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 188 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 197 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Page 271 - Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
Page 188 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it — if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it — and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 178 - I look upon you as a man called by sorrow and anguish and a strange desolation of hopes into quietness, and a soul set apart and made peculiar to God...
Page 206 - This he said to us. Indeed it was admirable. A little after, he said, One thing lay upon his spirit. I asked him, What that was ? He told me it was, That God had not suffered him to be any more the executioner of His enemies.