The colonel, by the author of 'The perils of fashion'.

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الصفحة 309 - MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE Of SIR ROBERT MURRAY KEITH, KB, Minister Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Dresden, Copenhagen, and Vienna, from 1769 to 1793; with Biographical Memoirs of Queen Caroline Matilda, Sister of George III.
الصفحة 274 - To one who is once persuaded that Jesus Christ was sent by God to be a King, and a Saviour of those who do believe in him, all his commands become principles ; there needs no other proof for the truth of what ho says, but that he said it.
الصفحة 142 - ... face-physic out of countenance. She knows a fair look is but a dumb orator to commend virtue, therefore minds it not. All her excellences stand in her so silently, as if they had stolen upon her without her knowledge. The lining of her apparel, which is herself, is far better than outsides of tissue; for though she be not arrayed in the spoil of the silkworm, she is decked in innocence, a far better wearing.
الصفحة 242 - She was a queen of noble Nature's crowning, A smile of her's was like an act of grace ; She had no winsome looks, no pretty frowning, Like daily beauties of the vulgar race : But if she smiled, a light was on her face, A clear, cool kindliness, a lunar beam Of peaceful radiance, silvering o'er the stream Of human thought with unabiding glory ; Not quite a waking truth, not quite a dream, A visitation, bright and transitory.
الصفحة 310 - ADVENTURES OF A GREEK LADY, the Adopted Daughter of the late Queen Caroline. Written by HERSELF. 2 vols., post Svo, bound . . 12s. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CELEBRATED DR. FRANKLIN; published from the Original MSS. By his GRANDSON. 2 vols , Svo, 12s. MEMOIRS OF GRANVILLE SHARP. 2 vols., Svo . . 12s.
الصفحة 310 - MEMOIRS OF THE COUNTESS DE GENLIS. Written by HERSELF. Embellished with Portraits. Complete in 8 vols., post 8vo. The same in French It Ss.
الصفحة 29 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
الصفحة 309 - MEMOIRS OF SCIPIO DE RICCI, BISHOP OF PISTOIA AND PRATO, AND REFORMER OF CATHOLICISM IN TUSCANY, UNDER THE REIGN OF LEOPOLD. Composed from the Original MSS.

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