Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments;: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate MoralityT.N. Longman, 1796 - Anecdotes |
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... paffed through years of cala- mity , bear up , with a noble and immoveable con- ftancy , against the heavieft . Uninterrupted mifery has this good effect , as it continually torments , it finally hardens . Such is the language of ...
... paffed through years of cala- mity , bear up , with a noble and immoveable con- ftancy , against the heavieft . Uninterrupted mifery has this good effect , as it continually torments , it finally hardens . Such is the language of ...
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... paffed in my mind before one of the oldeft , ableft , and richest of my friends came towards me and with the greatest cordiality wished me the health and pleasures of the morning.- I accepted them with equal warmth . Our har- mony was ...
... paffed in my mind before one of the oldeft , ableft , and richest of my friends came towards me and with the greatest cordiality wished me the health and pleasures of the morning.- I accepted them with equal warmth . Our har- mony was ...
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... the fquadron up the Mediterranean , frequent complaints were made to the Ministry by the mer- chants trading to the Levant , & c . of the piracies of 1 1 of the Algerines . These complaints were paffed over , ( 109 )
... the fquadron up the Mediterranean , frequent complaints were made to the Ministry by the mer- chants trading to the Levant , & c . of the piracies of 1 1 of the Algerines . These complaints were paffed over , ( 109 )
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... paffed over , ' till two fhips richly laden were taken and carried into Algiers . This was fo flagrant an in- fraction of treaties , that the Ministry could no longer be filent . Accordingly , orders were fent to the Admiral , to fail ...
... paffed over , ' till two fhips richly laden were taken and carried into Algiers . This was fo flagrant an in- fraction of treaties , that the Ministry could no longer be filent . Accordingly , orders were fent to the Admiral , to fail ...
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... them . It was a merciful fentence which the Creator paffed on Man for his difobedience , By the fweat of thy face thou shall eat thy bread : for to the punishment punifhment itself he ftands indebted for health , ftrength , ( 114 )
... them . It was a merciful fentence which the Creator paffed on Man for his difobedience , By the fweat of thy face thou shall eat thy bread : for to the punishment punifhment itself he ftands indebted for health , ftrength , ( 114 )
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Page 5 - vifit no more. My Friends do they now and then fend A wifh or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a Friend, Though a Friend I am never to fee. How fleet is the glance of the mind!
Page 5 - is laid down in his lair; Even here is a feafon of reft, And I to my cabin repair. There's Mercy in every place, And Mercy, encouraging Thought! Gives even Affliction a grace, And reconciles Man to his lot.
Page 103 - O lead me wherefoe'er I go, Through this day's life or death. This day, be bread and peace my lot: All elfe beneath the fun, Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or not, And let thy will be done. To Thee, whofe temple is all fpace, Whofe altar, earth, fea, flues! One chorus let all beings raife! All nature's incenfe rife!
Page 5 - Thro' worlds unnumber'd, tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who thro' vail immenfity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compofe one univerfe, Obferve how fyftem into fyftem runs, What other planets circle other funs, What varied being peoples
Page 7 - know why man reftrains His fiery courfe, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then (hall man's pride and dulnefs comprehend His actions', paflions',
Page 75 - one day careffing her infant fon in the open window of an apartment, which hung over the river Volturna; the child, with a fudden fpring, leaped from her arms into the flood below, and difappeared in a moment. The mother, ftruck with
Page 84 - eye, His fuppliants fcorn him, and his followers fly; At once is loft the pride of awful ftate, The golden canopy, the glitt'ring plate, The regal palace, the .luxurious board, The liv'ried army, and the menial lord; With age, with
Page 69 - from lower degrees of happinefs to higher. They have each faculties affigned them for various orders of delights." "What!" cried I } "is this the language of Religion? Does fhe lead her votaries through flowery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious life? Where are the painful toils of virtue, the mortifications of penitents,
Page 3 - Am Monarch of all I furvey, -*• My right there is none to difpute; From the centre all round to the fea, I am Lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That Sages have
Page 67 - came near, with a horrid frown, and a voice that chilled my very blood, (he bade me follow her. I obeyed; and fhe led me through rugged paths, befet with briars and thorns, into a deep folitary valley. Wherever fhe pafled, the fading verdure withered beneath her fteps, her