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... common is it to mention only a part admiration , as something very beau- of a thing , and to leave the rest to titul . One of them happened to have be comprehended . We invite a per- a picturesque description of the high son to take a ...
... common is it to mention only a part admiration , as something very beau- of a thing , and to leave the rest to titul . One of them happened to have be comprehended . We invite a per- a picturesque description of the high son to take a ...
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... common in bad plays . All these de- guage is so adapted , that scarcely a harlequin , and that in such a manner , sentence was heard in its first repre- that it not only pleased the common sentation without exciting loud peals people ...
... common in bad plays . All these de- guage is so adapted , that scarcely a harlequin , and that in such a manner , sentence was heard in its first repre- that it not only pleased the common sentation without exciting loud peals people ...
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... common others of mine , in the interval , that people reaped little or no benefit from were not printed , were , however , scenic representations , whilst they favourites on the stage . The first of were confined to country strollers ...
... common others of mine , in the interval , that people reaped little or no benefit from were not printed , were , however , scenic representations , whilst they favourites on the stage . The first of were confined to country strollers ...
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... Common - Sense . - September 1 , So far then are the men from proving their principle by practice , where their interest is concerned , that , when their own profound wis- dom is too weak to curb the more unruly among them , they have ...
... Common - Sense . - September 1 , So far then are the men from proving their principle by practice , where their interest is concerned , that , when their own profound wis- dom is too weak to curb the more unruly among them , they have ...
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... common received notion that difference pointed out between any mankind need not be knowing to be of our organs and theirs , but that virtuous : which proceeds from this , A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep , or taste ...
... common received notion that difference pointed out between any mankind need not be knowing to be of our organs and theirs , but that virtuous : which proceeds from this , A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep , or taste ...
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Page 483 - Upon his word I entered the gate, and came up to the Cofferer's chamber, where I found all the ladies weeping bitterly. He...
Page 353 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Page 385 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 98 - Of devisors of false news and of horrible and false lies, of prelates, dukes, earls, barons, and other nobles and great men of the realm ; and also of the chancellor, treasurer, clerk of the privy seal, steward of the king's house, justices of the one bench or of the other, and of other great officers of the realm...
Page 481 - , and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days, and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. I...
Page 483 - This that I heard with my ears, and did see with my eyes, I thought it my duty to set down, and to affirm it for a truth, upon the faith of a Christian ; because I know there have been many false lies reported of the end and death of that good lady.
Page 483 - I went in with them, and sat upon my knees, full of tears to see that heavy sight. Her Majesty lay upon her back, with one hand in the bed, and the other without. The Bishop kneeled...
Page 327 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 513 - Ireland, with part i of An historical address on the calamities occasioned by foreign influence in the nomination of Bishops to Irish Sees...
Page 426 - Foley, were of great use in completely securing the advantages gained. Every exertion was now made to get the convoy out of the river; but it being almost low water, it was late in the evening before they could be got afloat, and much labour and fatigue was occasioned, being obliged to shift the cargoes into smaller vessels to get them over the bar.