Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - Всего страниц: 472 |
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... hundred to one . I flattered myself I could find twenty persons in Boston , New York , Baltimore , and Philadelphia , who would patronize this plan . I was grievously mistaken . I found but four ! It would excite the most profound ...
... hundred to one . I flattered myself I could find twenty persons in Boston , New York , Baltimore , and Philadelphia , who would patronize this plan . I was grievously mistaken . I found but four ! It would excite the most profound ...
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... hundred ; and the managers , apprehensive of spreading the dis- order among them , enforced the abovementioned order , which had been en- tered into a long time before . They , however , supplied beds and bedding , and all the money in ...
... hundred ; and the managers , apprehensive of spreading the dis- order among them , enforced the abovementioned order , which had been en- tered into a long time before . They , however , supplied beds and bedding , and all the money in ...
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... hundreds , have been abandoned to the care of a negro , after their wives , chil- dren , friends , clerks , and servants , had fled away , and left them to their fate . In some cases , at the commencement of the dis- order , no money ...
... hundreds , have been abandoned to the care of a negro , after their wives , chil- dren , friends , clerks , and servants , had fled away , and left them to their fate . In some cases , at the commencement of the dis- order , no money ...
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... hundreds have paid the last debt to nature , since the malignant fever began ; and I be- lieve he attended nearly the whole of them . To so many dan- gers was he exposed , that he stands a living miracle of preser- vation . The Rev ...
... hundreds have paid the last debt to nature , since the malignant fever began ; and I be- lieve he attended nearly the whole of them . To so many dan- gers was he exposed , that he stands a living miracle of preser- vation . The Rev ...
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... hundred dollars of the Bank of North Ameri- ca , for the purpose of procuring suitable accommodations for the use of persons afflicted with the prevailing malignant fever . At this meeting , a committee was appointed to transact the ...
... hundred dollars of the Bank of North Ameri- ca , for the purpose of procuring suitable accommodations for the use of persons afflicted with the prevailing malignant fever . At this meeting , a committee was appointed to transact the ...
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Стр. 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Стр. 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Стр. 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Стр. 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Стр. 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Стр. 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Стр. 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Стр. 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Стр. 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Стр. 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.