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... greatest enemy can be to fubvert them . The in- fluence of thefe perfonages , who are men of fuch diftinguished parts and virtues , makes the people enjoy the utmoft tran- quillity in the inidft of a war , and gives them undoubted hopes ...
... greatest enemy can be to fubvert them . The in- fluence of thefe perfonages , who are men of fuch diftinguished parts and virtues , makes the people enjoy the utmoft tran- quillity in the inidft of a war , and gives them undoubted hopes ...
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... greatest thrones in Europe , before the man who was to have the greatest part in his downfal had made one Rep into the world . But fuch ele- vations are the natural confequences of an exact prudence , a calm courage , a well - governed ...
... greatest thrones in Europe , before the man who was to have the greatest part in his downfal had made one Rep into the world . But fuch ele- vations are the natural confequences of an exact prudence , a calm courage , a well - governed ...
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... greatest names that ever ap- peared before this century . In order to enter into their characters , there needs no more but examining their behaviour in parallel circumstances . It must be allowed , that they had an equal great- , nefs ...
... greatest names that ever ap- peared before this century . In order to enter into their characters , there needs no more but examining their behaviour in parallel circumstances . It must be allowed , that they had an equal great- , nefs ...
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... greatest politicians on fome oc- cafions whimfical . But I fhall not pre- tend to palliate or excufe the matter ; for I find , by a calculation of my own nativity , that I cannot hold out with any tolerable wit longer than two mi- nutes ...
... greatest politicians on fome oc- cafions whimfical . But I fhall not pre- tend to palliate or excufe the matter ; for I find , by a calculation of my own nativity , that I cannot hold out with any tolerable wit longer than two mi- nutes ...
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... greatest romp in nature : fhe whisks me fuch a height over her head , that I cried out for fear of falling . She pinched me , and called me fquealing chit , and threw me into a girl's arms that was taken in to tend me . girl was very ...
... greatest romp in nature : fhe whisks me fuch a height over her head , that I cried out for fear of falling . She pinched me , and called me fquealing chit , and threw me into a girl's arms that was taken in to tend me . girl was very ...
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Page 285 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 442 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Page 206 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 604 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page 371 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Page 604 - I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Page 442 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 442 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
Page 515 - The gentleman of the house told me, if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country. I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour. I was very much...
Page 389 - To this he added, that, for his part, he could not wish to see the Turk driven out of Europe, which he believed could not but be prejudicial to our woollen manufacture.