The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a Collection of Select Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse; Curious Anecdotes, Instructive Tales, and Ingenious Essays on Different Subjects, Volume 7R. Goadby, 1776 |
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... give up her understanding to his weak determination , fince custom cannot con- fer an authority which nature has denied . It cannot license a husband to be unjust , nor give right to treat her as a flave . If this was to be the cafe in ...
... give up her understanding to his weak determination , fince custom cannot con- fer an authority which nature has denied . It cannot license a husband to be unjust , nor give right to treat her as a flave . If this was to be the cafe in ...
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... give him- felf up to the inftigations of temerity . Gerbert accordingly re- turned to Court , in order to conduct himself in the way which the pious Monk had recommended . William , after having refufed to comply with the favourite's ...
... give him- felf up to the inftigations of temerity . Gerbert accordingly re- turned to Court , in order to conduct himself in the way which the pious Monk had recommended . William , after having refufed to comply with the favourite's ...
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... give ear to these flattering infinuations , the phantom all on a fudden vanished , and gave place to a hideous figure , whofe fqualid appearance and wrinkled afpect , as well as the maxims which it inculcated , fufficiently difcovered ...
... give ear to these flattering infinuations , the phantom all on a fudden vanished , and gave place to a hideous figure , whofe fqualid appearance and wrinkled afpect , as well as the maxims which it inculcated , fufficiently difcovered ...
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... give the value of y = 40 ; which being divided by y in the firft equation , gives the value of x ; and again , by y , in the second equation , gives the value of z ; therefore the numbers are x = 30 , y = 40 , and z = 50 , the answer ...
... give the value of y = 40 ; which being divided by y in the firft equation , gives the value of x ; and again , by y , in the second equation , gives the value of z ; therefore the numbers are x = 30 , y = 40 , and z = 50 , the answer ...
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... give Lucilia all the confolation in his power , and alfo to give relief to his own bene- volent mind , he added , that , if no witnefles appeared , his crimina- lity could not be properly afcertained . Pierre , who in cagerness to ...
... give Lucilia all the confolation in his power , and alfo to give relief to his own bene- volent mind , he added , that , if no witnefles appeared , his crimina- lity could not be properly afcertained . Pierre , who in cagerness to ...
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Página 222 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Página 295 - I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Página 222 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Página 222 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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Página 130 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...
Página 295 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Página 130 - ... insulted by his adversary, or despised by the world. It may be laid down as an unfailing and universal axiom, that " all pride is abject and mean.