The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].Samuel Archer, 1810 |
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... expressed himself in the following terms : " I am also in your debt for those excellent " Counsels of Prudence , " which you published some time ago , and would recommend it to you , to relieve yourself now and then from your great work ...
... expressed himself in the following terms : " I am also in your debt for those excellent " Counsels of Prudence , " which you published some time ago , and would recommend it to you , to relieve yourself now and then from your great work ...
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... expression , not in tints and chi- aro scuro . " Mr. Nichols remarks , that Hogarth's principal employment at first " seems to have been the engraving of arms and shop - bills . The next step was to design and furnish plates for ...
... expression , not in tints and chi- aro scuro . " Mr. Nichols remarks , that Hogarth's principal employment at first " seems to have been the engraving of arms and shop - bills . The next step was to design and furnish plates for ...
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... expressed his regard for the memory of his friend : " Poets and painters , who from nature draw Their best and richest stores , have made this law ; That each should neighbourly assist his brother , And steal with decency from one ...
... expressed his regard for the memory of his friend : " Poets and painters , who from nature draw Their best and richest stores , have made this law ; That each should neighbourly assist his brother , And steal with decency from one ...
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... expressed in a style , simple , pure , and attic . 66 A Simplicity of style is a grace which , though it may not captivate at first sight , is sure in the end to give permament satisfaction . It does not excite admiration , but it ...
... expressed in a style , simple , pure , and attic . 66 A Simplicity of style is a grace which , though it may not captivate at first sight , is sure in the end to give permament satisfaction . It does not excite admiration , but it ...
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... expression admirable ; we have dreamed of it ever since . The jolly old Benedictine , that shewed us the treasures , had in his youth been ten years a soldi- he laughed at all the relics , was very full of stories , and migh ty obliging ...
... expression admirable ; we have dreamed of it ever since . The jolly old Benedictine , that shewed us the treasures , had in his youth been ten years a soldi- he laughed at all the relics , was very full of stories , and migh ty obliging ...
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Seite 282 - How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Seite 151 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Seite 206 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Seite 278 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Seite 147 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 278 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Seite 92 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Seite 146 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 152 - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren?
Seite 152 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!