Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volume 18Hunt and Clarke, 1830 |
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Page vii
... reason bids us chuse , " Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse . " WORTHY PATRONS , CHURCHILL . WERE I to address you in the accustomed declama- tory strain which has long been adopted as the uni- versal language of dedications , viz ...
... reason bids us chuse , " Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse . " WORTHY PATRONS , CHURCHILL . WERE I to address you in the accustomed declama- tory strain which has long been adopted as the uni- versal language of dedications , viz ...
Page xii
... reasons with due precision for intruding himself on his readers ( whether true or otherwise is not always material to enquire , ) bespeak- ing their candour towards his weaknesses and imper- fections ( which by the bye , few authors are ...
... reasons with due precision for intruding himself on his readers ( whether true or otherwise is not always material to enquire , ) bespeak- ing their candour towards his weaknesses and imper- fections ( which by the bye , few authors are ...
Page xx
... Reason may drown , may die , but envy's rage , Improves with time , and gathers strength from age . " It seems that several of those liberal - minded men , being prodigiously mortified at the increasing sale of my Life , applied to ...
... Reason may drown , may die , but envy's rage , Improves with time , and gathers strength from age . " It seems that several of those liberal - minded men , being prodigiously mortified at the increasing sale of my Life , applied to ...
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... reason , and man ; While no libertine motives their secrets dispense , But propriety joins hand - in - hand with good sense , Oh ! with thee , could the crowd view each sanctified scene , Where the hypocrite oft wears simplicity's mien ...
... reason , and man ; While no libertine motives their secrets dispense , But propriety joins hand - in - hand with good sense , Oh ! with thee , could the crowd view each sanctified scene , Where the hypocrite oft wears simplicity's mien ...
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... reason for my asking this question is , I last year observed that a certain bookseller published his first catalogue with this introduction : - " As this is the first catalogue ever the author made , and is done in great haste , he ...
... reason for my asking this question is , I last year observed that a certain bookseller published his first catalogue with this introduction : - " As this is the first catalogue ever the author made , and is done in great haste , he ...
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Page 342 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Page 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 116 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Page 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 314 - Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these, reciprocally, those again. The mind and conduct mutually imprint And stamp their image in each other's mint ; Each sire and dam, of an infernal race, Begetting and conceiving all that's base.
Page 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 342 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk); but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam; whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and is of his own nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh lusteth always contrary to the spirit; and therefore in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath and damnation.
Page 249 - But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Page 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 289 - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art : Spontaneous joys, where nature has its play, The soul adopts, and owns their first-born sway ; Lightly they frolic o'er the vacant mind, Unenvied, unmolested, unconfined.