Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining KnowledgeR. Gibson, 1786 |
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... death ! The frantic father , overcome with grief , enraged at his accu- mulated diftrefs , with rath impatience ends his own exiftence , and leaves his helplefs Estes unguarded , unprotected in a world of wo ! Turn then , you who revel ...
... death ! The frantic father , overcome with grief , enraged at his accu- mulated diftrefs , with rath impatience ends his own exiftence , and leaves his helplefs Estes unguarded , unprotected in a world of wo ! Turn then , you who revel ...
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... death into many a family , happy ere their acquaintance with your poisonous productions - You have de- prived the young mind of its firmnefs . its fenfibility , its delicacy- You have bereft it of its virtue , even before experience had ...
... death into many a family , happy ere their acquaintance with your poisonous productions - You have de- prived the young mind of its firmnefs . its fenfibility , its delicacy- You have bereft it of its virtue , even before experience had ...
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... death had hitherto been very rare amongst us . He was an old man , and much refpect ed on account of his attachment to Captain Cook . He had formerly ferved as a marine twenty - one years ; after which he entered as a feaman on board ...
... death had hitherto been very rare amongst us . He was an old man , and much refpect ed on account of his attachment to Captain Cook . He had formerly ferved as a marine twenty - one years ; after which he entered as a feaman on board ...
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... Death of Dudley Huffey , Efg , late Recorder of the City of Dublin , and Member for the Borough of Taghmon . By John Mackeeg . ANGUID with toffing half the fleeplef night , With tolded arms , and heart opprefs'd with • woe ; Forth from ...
... Death of Dudley Huffey , Efg , late Recorder of the City of Dublin , and Member for the Borough of Taghmon . By John Mackeeg . ANGUID with toffing half the fleeplef night , With tolded arms , and heart opprefs'd with • woe ; Forth from ...
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... Death's pangs obliviate with harp , and fong , And pleas'd direct thy progress to the skies . " I'll lead to fhining mansions then thine own , And fhew thy parent in his bleft abode ; Then proftrate we will fall before the throne , The ...
... Death's pangs obliviate with harp , and fong , And pleas'd direct thy progress to the skies . " I'll lead to fhining mansions then thine own , And fhew thy parent in his bleft abode ; Then proftrate we will fall before the throne , The ...
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Page 229 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
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Page 453 - ... night and had no manner of disturbance. ' Thursday night the tenant and I lay together in one room and the man in another room, and he saw something walk along in a black gown and place itself against a window, and there stood for some time, and then walked off. Friday morning the man relating this, I asked him why he did not call me, and I told him...
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