The Port Folio, Volume 3Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... principles have no room for improvement , their excellencies are eternal . All other things form a humble part ; to speak with due reverence of that moral fabric which the hand of Almighty Wisdom has designed ; and which is destined to ...
... principles have no room for improvement , their excellencies are eternal . All other things form a humble part ; to speak with due reverence of that moral fabric which the hand of Almighty Wisdom has designed ; and which is destined to ...
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... principles that were then avow- ed ; and a whole company of actors have been conducted to prison for daring to give a play in which a king , or other titled person , had ap- peared to advantage , or when particular passages , which ...
... principles that were then avow- ed ; and a whole company of actors have been conducted to prison for daring to give a play in which a king , or other titled person , had ap- peared to advantage , or when particular passages , which ...
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... principles of Vital Motion . 5. A Translation of the letters of Cicero , with an introduc- tion by Cadwallader Colden . 6. A Correspondence with Doctor Benjamin Franklin from the year 1743 to 1757 . 7. Correspondence with Linnæus - 1747 ...
... principles of Vital Motion . 5. A Translation of the letters of Cicero , with an introduc- tion by Cadwallader Colden . 6. A Correspondence with Doctor Benjamin Franklin from the year 1743 to 1757 . 7. Correspondence with Linnæus - 1747 ...
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... , without intending it , you may say something , which a person present may consider as personal , and for which you may be obliged to make an apology . Send your son into the world with good principles , THE SENTENTIOUS WORLD . 51.
... , without intending it , you may say something , which a person present may consider as personal , and for which you may be obliged to make an apology . Send your son into the world with good principles , THE SENTENTIOUS WORLD . 51.
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Send your son into the world with good principles , and a good edu- cation , and he will find his way in the dark . A guinea found in the street will not do a man so much good as one earned by industry . Those bear disappointments best ...
Send your son into the world with good principles , and a good edu- cation , and he will find his way in the dark . A guinea found in the street will not do a man so much good as one earned by industry . Those bear disappointments best ...
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Page 204 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 387 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung, Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young: The jolly god in triumph comes!
Page 396 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 201 - And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter ; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And Peter went out. and wept bitterly.
Page 390 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy...
Page 388 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 193 - Of all their regions; powers which only the control of Omnipotence restrains from laying creation waste, and filling the vast expanse of space with ruin and confusion. To display the motives and actions of beings thus superior, so far as human reason can examine them, or human imagination represent them, is the task which this mighty poet has undertaken and performed.
Page 341 - O'er many a distant foreign land ; Each place, each province I have tried, And sung and danced my saraband. But all their charms could not prevail To steal my heart from yonder vale.
Page 388 - Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew ! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And...
Page 203 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...