The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, المجلد 2J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 |
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... Persons before whom he is . This makes Varillus truly amiable , and all his Attempts fuccefsful ; for as bad as the World is thought to be by those who are perhaps unskill'd in it , Want of Succefs in our Actions is generally owing to ...
... Persons before whom he is . This makes Varillus truly amiable , and all his Attempts fuccefsful ; for as bad as the World is thought to be by those who are perhaps unskill'd in it , Want of Succefs in our Actions is generally owing to ...
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... Person is rather the Object of Esteem than of Love ; and there is fuch a Thing as a Merit , which caufes rather Distance than Paffion . But there being no Medium in the State of Matrimo ny , their Life began to take the ufual Grada ...
... Person is rather the Object of Esteem than of Love ; and there is fuch a Thing as a Merit , which caufes rather Distance than Paffion . But there being no Medium in the State of Matrimo ny , their Life began to take the ufual Grada ...
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... Person of his Way of Thinking . Shakespear is your Pat- tern . In the Tragedy of Cafar , he introduces his Hero in his Night - Gown . He had at that Time all the Power of Rome : Depos'd Con- fuls , Subordinate Generals , and Captive ...
... Person of his Way of Thinking . Shakespear is your Pat- tern . In the Tragedy of Cafar , he introduces his Hero in his Night - Gown . He had at that Time all the Power of Rome : Depos'd Con- fuls , Subordinate Generals , and Captive ...
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... Persons ⚫ we injure , Who is the more blameable , he that oppreffes an unhappy Man , or he that cheats a foolish One ? All Mankind are indifferently liable to adverse Strokes of Fortune ; and he who adds to them , when he might relieve ...
... Persons ⚫ we injure , Who is the more blameable , he that oppreffes an unhappy Man , or he that cheats a foolish One ? All Mankind are indifferently liable to adverse Strokes of Fortune ; and he who adds to them , when he might relieve ...
الصفحة 67
... Person to send a Man an Account of what he has no Mind to hear ; therefore many Epiftles were conveyed to the Father of this Extravagant , to inform him of the Company , the Pleasures , the Distreffes , and Entertainments , in which his ...
... Person to send a Man an Account of what he has no Mind to hear ; therefore many Epiftles were conveyed to the Father of this Extravagant , to inform him of the Company , the Pleasures , the Distreffes , and Entertainments , in which his ...
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الصفحة 168 - 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.
الصفحة 227 - Among those who were far advanced in their way, there were some that by one false step fell backward, and lost more ground in a moment than they had gained for many hours, or could be ever able to recover. We were now advanced very high, and observed that all the different paths which ran about the sides of the mountain began to meet in two great roads: which insensibly gathered the whole multitude of travellers into two great bodies. At a little...
الصفحة 117 - My beloved! and the words grace ! regeneration! sanctification! a new light! the day! the day! ay, my beloved, the day! or rather the night! the night is coming!
الصفحة 117 - ... so much concern for them as to give them all the additional force they were able, it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations, for no reason in the world but because it is spoken extempore. For ordinary minds are wholly governed by their eyes and ears, and there is no way to come at their hearts, but by power over their imaginations.
الصفحة 325 - Every moment of her life brings me fresh instances of her complacency to my inclinations, and her prudence in regard to my fortune. Her face is to me much more beautiful than when I first saw it; there is no decay in any feature which I cannot trace from the very instant it was occasioned by some anxious concern for my welfare and interests.
الصفحة 67 - His allowance from his father was a very plentiful one for a man of sense, but as scanty for a modern fine gentleman. His frequent losses had reduced him to so necessitous a condition, that his lodgings were always haunted by impatient creditors; and all his thoughts employed in contriving low methods to support himself in a way of life from which he knew not how to retreat, and In which he wanted means to proceed. There is never wanting some...
الصفحة 328 - for being the champion of England; and by this means had his thoughts insensibly moulded into the notions of discretion, virtue, and honour. I was extolling his accomplishments, when the mother told me, that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he. "Betty...
الصفحة 322 - THERE are several persons who have many pleasures and entertainments in their possession, which they do not enjoy. It is, therefore, a kind and good office to acquaint them with their own happiness, and turn their attention to such instances of their good fortune as they are apt to overlook.
الصفحة 398 - That it should come to this! But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
الصفحة 337 - ... larger stature than ordinary approaching towards him. One of them had a very noble air, and graceful deportment ; her...