The Life and Adventures of Joe Thompson: A Narrative Founded on Fact. Written by Himself ...John Hinton; and W. Frederick, in Bath, 1775 |
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الصفحة i - TO wake the foul by tender ftrokes of art, To raife the genius, and to mend the heart ; To make mankind, in confcious virtue bold, Live o'er each fcene, and be what they behold : For this the Tragic Mufe firft trod the ftage, 5 Commanding tears to ftream thro' ev'ry age ; Tyrants no more their favage nature kept, And foes to virtue wonder'd how they wept.
الصفحة 133 - If thou wouldest get a friend, prove him first, and be not hasty to credit him : for some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. And there is a friend who being turned to enmity and strife, will discover thy reproach.
الصفحة 54 - I had all the reafon in the world to be fatisfied with him. To obtain his pardon (tho* I was not angry with him — I could not be angry) he gave me his picture in miniature.
الصفحة 270 - Remember what our father oft has told us : The ways of heaven are dark and intricate ; Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors, Our underftanding traces them in vain, Loft and bewilder'd in the fruitlefs fearch ; Nor fees with how much art the windings run> Nor where the regular confufion ends.
الصفحة xiii - Mecum : And that it may be as much admired by others, as it is by me, and may be of univerfal Service to Mankind, is the fincere and hearty Prayer of Me EDITOR.
الصفحة xiv - ... improved from their reading, as well as the generous youth, who pants after instruction.
الصفحة 25 - Charge not to divulge the Occurrence to any of the Neighbours, fearing, may hap, that it might be prejudicial to his Intereft with the Parents of his Boarders.