Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volume 18Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 - Autobiographies |
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... possessed so much intrinsic merit as would occasion it to be universally admired by all good judges as a prodigious effort of human genius , and that this approbation must natu- rally excite the envy of some authors , who had not met ...
... possessed so much intrinsic merit as would occasion it to be universally admired by all good judges as a prodigious effort of human genius , and that this approbation must natu- rally excite the envy of some authors , who had not met ...
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... possessed in making it , has , I believe , had much influence on me ever since ; as I cannot recollect that in any one instance I have ever observed the least fear of apparitions , spirits , & c . since . " What education did at first ...
... possessed in making it , has , I believe , had much influence on me ever since ; as I cannot recollect that in any one instance I have ever observed the least fear of apparitions , spirits , & c . since . " What education did at first ...
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... possessing a light pair of heels , I always kept at a proper distance . O , my friend , little did I imagine at that time , that I should ever excite the same poor mean spirit in many of the booksellers of London and other places ! But ...
... possessing a light pair of heels , I always kept at a proper distance . O , my friend , little did I imagine at that time , that I should ever excite the same poor mean spirit in many of the booksellers of London and other places ! But ...
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... is more happy , the more curs'd we are , In vain all nature smiles , but man alone , He's form'd more perfect and was made to groan . ” YOUNG OFFICER'S TRIFLES . Thus are many who before possessed " consciences void of 58 THE LIFE OF.
... is more happy , the more curs'd we are , In vain all nature smiles , but man alone , He's form'd more perfect and was made to groan . ” YOUNG OFFICER'S TRIFLES . Thus are many who before possessed " consciences void of 58 THE LIFE OF.
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... possessed " consciences void of offence towards God and mankind ” tricked out of their peace of mind , by the ignorant applica- tion of texts of scripture . Their fears being once so dreadfully alarmed , they often become insupportable ...
... possessed " consciences void of offence towards God and mankind ” tricked out of their peace of mind , by the ignorant applica- tion of texts of scripture . Their fears being once so dreadfully alarmed , they often become insupportable ...
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Page 344 - 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 291 - 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...
Page 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 291 - Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 344 - 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 166 - And you who never err'd through pride ; You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd ; (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you ;) The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent your freaks no more ; I to such blockheads set my wit, I damn such fools— go, go, you're bit...
Page 111 - Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
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 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.