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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... reason , or good sense , and to the inclination of our neighbours , with very little money , may produce a great and lasting felicity ; but without this fubfervience to our own reafon , complaifance to company , and foftnefs and ...
... reason , or good sense , and to the inclination of our neighbours , with very little money , may produce a great and lasting felicity ; but without this fubfervience to our own reafon , complaifance to company , and foftnefs and ...
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... reason to suspect a difcovery of his intentions , and to get from him in writing the regulations which he propofed to make upon his advancement , by ufurpation , to the Dutchy of Guienne . With this command the Provincials were ...
... reason to suspect a difcovery of his intentions , and to get from him in writing the regulations which he propofed to make upon his advancement , by ufurpation , to the Dutchy of Guienne . With this command the Provincials were ...
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... reason , apprehended that his aspiring would tend to his deftruc- tion . It was then that Avarice feized the opportunity to tell him , that in the pursuits of ambition he would only confume his wealth ; whereas , by liftening to the ...
... reason , apprehended that his aspiring would tend to his deftruc- tion . It was then that Avarice feized the opportunity to tell him , that in the pursuits of ambition he would only confume his wealth ; whereas , by liftening to the ...
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... Aubine , who had been educated at the fame convent .---- He started on hearing the well - known voice --- it was mufic to his ear --- but he wished juft at that 1 that time , for several reasons , that he had 26 THE WEEKLY MISCELLANY .
... Aubine , who had been educated at the fame convent .---- He started on hearing the well - known voice --- it was mufic to his ear --- but he wished juft at that 1 that time , for several reasons , that he had 26 THE WEEKLY MISCELLANY .
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... reasons , that he had not heard it . The voice , the fight of his Lucilia , recalled that love of life fo ftrongly im ... reason for the breach of his promife ; ftill less was he able to discover the defign he had formed , by the ...
... reasons , that he had not heard it . The voice , the fight of his Lucilia , recalled that love of life fo ftrongly im ... reason for the breach of his promife ; ftill less was he able to discover the defign he had formed , by the ...
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Página 295 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Página 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
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.
Página 222 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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.