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... once knocked him down for giving a humble dance at his rooms to celebrate the small but solitary honor of having gained an exhibition worth thirty shillings . After nearly four years passed at Dublin without pleasure , profit , or ...
... once knocked him down for giving a humble dance at his rooms to celebrate the small but solitary honor of having gained an exhibition worth thirty shillings . After nearly four years passed at Dublin without pleasure , profit , or ...
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... once brought away a considerable sum , which was lost almost as soon as won . When he took his departure in February 1755 , he was obliged to a fellow - student for the loan which was to carry him on his way . Imme- diately afterwards ...
... once brought away a considerable sum , which was lost almost as soon as won . When he took his departure in February 1755 , he was obliged to a fellow - student for the loan which was to carry him on his way . Imme- diately afterwards ...
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... once threatened , when Mrs. Sidebotham rejected his advice , and adopted that of her apothecary , to leave off prescrib- ing for his friends . " Do so , my dear Doctor , " replied Beauclerk ; " whenever you under- take to kill , let it ...
... once threatened , when Mrs. Sidebotham rejected his advice , and adopted that of her apothecary , to leave off prescrib- ing for his friends . " Do so , my dear Doctor , " replied Beauclerk ; " whenever you under- take to kill , let it ...
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... once been his supreme delight . The love for every place , except that in which they re- sided , is mentioned by himself as a Gold- smith characteristic . " But travelling at twenty and at forty are , " he said , “ very dif- ferent ...
... once been his supreme delight . The love for every place , except that in which they re- sided , is mentioned by himself as a Gold- smith characteristic . " But travelling at twenty and at forty are , " he said , “ very dif- ferent ...
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... once declared himself that " the smell of gunpowder was more grateful to his senses than the sweetest perfume of Arabia . " His military propensi- ties may have influenced his decisive and arbitrary legislation . Most readers like to ...
... once declared himself that " the smell of gunpowder was more grateful to his senses than the sweetest perfume of Arabia . " His military propensi- ties may have influenced his decisive and arbitrary legislation . Most readers like to ...
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Página 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
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Página 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 152 - ... of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one. but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
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Página 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
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