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... period , the seeds of the French Revolulution were disseminating their influence in GreatBritain . Among the sons of Caledonia , long remarkable for metaphysical disputation , they experienced a very nutritive soil.-. * 1789-90 . ravages ...
... period , the seeds of the French Revolulution were disseminating their influence in GreatBritain . Among the sons of Caledonia , long remarkable for metaphysical disputation , they experienced a very nutritive soil.-. * 1789-90 . ravages ...
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... period I remained at College , simply observing , that to this day I do not remember a more fascinating period of my life . It aroused the yet dormant faculties of my mind , freed me from a mass of prejudice and error , and interesting ...
... period I remained at College , simply observing , that to this day I do not remember a more fascinating period of my life . It aroused the yet dormant faculties of my mind , freed me from a mass of prejudice and error , and interesting ...
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... period when his affairs assumed rather unfavourable appearances , and influenced by an opinion that they would be involved in greater embarrassment when he should no longer hold a personal controul , had enjoined his Executor , among ...
... period when his affairs assumed rather unfavourable appearances , and influenced by an opinion that they would be involved in greater embarrassment when he should no longer hold a personal controul , had enjoined his Executor , among ...
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... period . I have not long to survive let me therefore cease to indulge in the affecting retrospect , and feed only upon the settled melancholy which is fast carrying me to an untimely grave ! Whatever Mrs. Edwards might have witnessed ...
... period . I have not long to survive let me therefore cease to indulge in the affecting retrospect , and feed only upon the settled melancholy which is fast carrying me to an untimely grave ! Whatever Mrs. Edwards might have witnessed ...
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... period we paid a visit to Portman Square . Our names were announced - Mrs . Evans flew to welcome us . In the parlour we found Mrs. Edwards and her sister . The latter was occupied in the production of something ornamental to her person ...
... period we paid a visit to Portman Square . Our names were announced - Mrs . Evans flew to welcome us . In the parlour we found Mrs. Edwards and her sister . The latter was occupied in the production of something ornamental to her person ...
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Page 76 - 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 30 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.
Page 299 - Inspiration round. As o'er the dusky furniture I bend, Each chair awakes the feelings of a friend.
Page 319 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 300 - Her tattered mantle, and her hood of straw ; Her moving lips, her caldron brimming o'er ; The drowsy brood that on her back she bore, Imps, in the barn with mousing owlet bred, From rifled roost at nightly revel fed ; Whose dark eyes...
Page 301 - Oh haste, unfold the hospitable hall ! That hall, where once, in antiquated state, The chair of justice held the grave debate.
Page 256 - ... doing his duty as a rational creature, that, though he should miss truth, he will not miss the reward of it. For he governs his assent right, and places it as he should, who, in any case or matter whatsoever, believes or disbelieves according as reason directs him. He that doth otherwise, transgresses against his own light, and misuses those faculties which were given him to no other end, but to search and follow the clearer evidence and greater probability.
Page 300 - Forgot to trace the feathered feet of Time ? That massive beam, with curious carvings wrought, Whence the caged linnet soothed my pensive thought ; Those muskets, cased with venerable rust ; Those once-loved forms, still breathing thro...
Page 300 - twas heaven to hear, When soft it spoke a promised pleasure near ; And has its sober hand, its simple chime, Forgot to trace the...
Page 255 - He that believes, without having any reason for believing, may be in love with his own fancies ; but neither seeks truth as he ought, nor pays the obedience due to his Maker...