The Life of John Buncle: Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World, and Many Extraordinary RelationsJ. Johnson and B. Davenport, 1766 - Anecdotes |
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... thou alone puts wisdom into the human heart , and suddenly makes man to know himself . It is death that makes the conqueror afhamed of his fame , and with he had rather ftolen out of the world , than purchased the report of his ac- C 2 ...
... thou alone puts wisdom into the human heart , and suddenly makes man to know himself . It is death that makes the conqueror afhamed of his fame , and with he had rather ftolen out of the world , than purchased the report of his ac- C 2 ...
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... thou haft per- fuaded : what none have dared , thou haft done and whom all the world hath flatter- ed , thou only haft caft out of the world , and defpifed . Thou haft drawn together all the far - ftretched greatnefs , all the pride ...
... thou haft per- fuaded : what none have dared , thou haft done and whom all the world hath flatter- ed , thou only haft caft out of the world , and defpifed . Thou haft drawn together all the far - ftretched greatnefs , all the pride ...
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... thou that finishes the trial of men , and feals their characters , for happiness or mifery for ever . Be thou then , death , our morning and evening meditation : let us learn from thee the vanity of all human things ; and that it is the ...
... thou that finishes the trial of men , and feals their characters , for happiness or mifery for ever . Be thou then , death , our morning and evening meditation : let us learn from thee the vanity of all human things ; and that it is the ...
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... thou art , whom the fates fhall conduct into this chamber , remember , that before many years are paffed , thou must be laid in the bed of corruption , in the dark caverns of death , among the lifeless duft , and rotten bones of others ...
... thou art , whom the fates fhall conduct into this chamber , remember , that before many years are paffed , thou must be laid in the bed of corruption , in the dark caverns of death , among the lifeless duft , and rotten bones of others ...
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... thou haft made for our comfort- able fubfiftence in this world . But above all , moft glorious Eternal , a- dored be thy goodness , for repeating and re- inforcing the laws and the religion of thy creation , by fupernatural revelation ...
... thou haft made for our comfort- able fubfiftence in this world . But above all , moft glorious Eternal , a- dored be thy goodness , for repeating and re- inforcing the laws and the religion of thy creation , by fupernatural revelation ...
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Page 269 - Learning and knowledge are perfections in us, not as we are men, but as we are reasonable creatures, in which order of beings the female world is upon the same level with the male.
Page 466 - To health of body, and content of mind ; A soul, that can securely death defy, And count it nature's privilege to die ; Serene and manly, harden'd to...
Page 29 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Page 151 - I reply, that I think it unreasonable and impious to grieve immoderately for the dead. A decent and proper tribute of tears and sorrow, humanity requires ; but when that duty has been paid, we must remember, that to lament a dead woman is not to lament a wife. A wife must be a living woman.
Page 465 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 138 - ... his nostrils. He had killed two men in duels before I left Ireland, and would have been hanged, but that it was his good fortune to be tried before a judge who never let any man suffer for killing another in this manner. (This was the late Sir John St. Leger.) He debauched all the women he could, and many whom he could not corrupt.
Page 28 - God winked at; but now coinmandeth all men every where to repent; becaufe he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteoufnefs, by that man whom he hath ordained : whereof he hath given aflurance unto all men, in that he hath raifed him from the dead.
Page 24 - La Mancha, in hopes of conquering a kingdom, or marrying some great Princess ; but to see if I could find another good country girl for a wife, and get a little more money; as they were the only two things united, that could secure me from melancholy, and confer real happiness.
Page 362 - Ut caneret paucis, mersitque hoc pulvere verum, Estque dei sedes, nisi terra et pontus et aer Et caelum et virtus? Superos quid quaerimus ultra? luppiter est, quodcumque vides, quodcumque moveris. Sortilegis egeant dubii semperque futuris Casibus ancipites: me non oracula cerium Sed mors certa facit. Pavido fortique cadendum est: Hoc satis est dixisse lovem.
Page 490 - Formed in the forge, the pliant brass is laid ") On anvils ; and of head and limbs are made, > Pans, cans, and piss-pots, a whole kitchen trade.