Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volume 18Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 - Autobiographies |
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... eunuch's melancholy spite , They growl at you , because they cannot write ; A gloomy silence , envy's pang imparts , Or some cold hint betrays their canker'd hearts . " But the rapid sale of this Life soon caused them PREFACE ...
... eunuch's melancholy spite , They growl at you , because they cannot write ; A gloomy silence , envy's pang imparts , Or some cold hint betrays their canker'd hearts . " But the rapid sale of this Life soon caused them PREFACE ...
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... soon caused them to alter their stories ; and I was very much surprised to hear that several of those gentlemen , who had scarce done exclaiming , " Vile trash ! beneath all criticism ! " & c . began to praise the composition ; and on ...
... soon caused them to alter their stories ; and I was very much surprised to hear that several of those gentlemen , who had scarce done exclaiming , " Vile trash ! beneath all criticism ! " & c . began to praise the composition ; and on ...
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... soon as he found he was more at ease in his circumstances , he contracted a fatal habit of drinking , and of course his business was neglected ; so that after several fruitless attempts of my grandfather to keep him in trade , he was ...
... soon as he found he was more at ease in his circumstances , he contracted a fatal habit of drinking , and of course his business was neglected ; so that after several fruitless attempts of my grandfather to keep him in trade , he was ...
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... soon ? " DEAR FRIEND , VILLAGE CURATE . As I was the eldest , and my father for the first few years a careful hard - working man , I fared something better than my brothers and sisters . I was put for two or three years to a day ...
... soon ? " DEAR FRIEND , VILLAGE CURATE . As I was the eldest , and my father for the first few years a careful hard - working man , I fared something better than my brothers and sisters . I was put for two or three years to a day ...
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... soon at an end , when my mother became so poor that she could not afford the mighty sum of two - pence per week for my schooling . Besides , I was obliged to supply the place of a nurse to several of my brothers and sisters . The ...
... soon at an end , when my mother became so poor that she could not afford the mighty sum of two - pence per week for my schooling . Besides , I was obliged to supply the place of a nurse to several of my brothers and sisters . The ...
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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.