Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - Всего страниц: 472 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 100
Стр. 14
... produce a vast extension of trade . But how fleeting are all human views ! how uncertain all plans founded on earth- ly appearances ! All these flattering prospects vanished " like the baseless fabric of a vision . " In July , arrived ...
... produce a vast extension of trade . But how fleeting are all human views ! how uncertain all plans founded on earth- ly appearances ! All these flattering prospects vanished " like the baseless fabric of a vision . " In July , arrived ...
Стр. 15
... produce . Cut off from this quarter , their merchants have had to seek out other markets , which being unprepared for such an increased de- mand , their supplies have been imperfect ; and , owing to the briskness of the sales , the ...
... produce . Cut off from this quarter , their merchants have had to seek out other markets , which being unprepared for such an increased de- mand , their supplies have been imperfect ; and , owing to the briskness of the sales , the ...
Стр. 18
... from it , has informed me , that a removal of the sick from a close , warm room to one a few degrees cooler , which practice he employed several times daily , produced a most extraordi- 18 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 .
... from it , has informed me , that a removal of the sick from a close , warm room to one a few degrees cooler , which practice he employed several times daily , produced a most extraordi- 18 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 .
Стр. 19
Mathew Carey. he employed several times daily , produced a most extraordi- nary and favourable change in their appearance , in their pulse , and in their spirits . CHAPTER III . First Alarm in Philadelphia . Flight of the Citizens : Guar ...
Mathew Carey. he employed several times daily , produced a most extraordi- nary and favourable change in their appearance , in their pulse , and in their spirits . CHAPTER III . First Alarm in Philadelphia . Flight of the Citizens : Guar ...
Стр. 20
... produce that effect , to their graves . An idea had gone abroad , that the burning of fires in the streets , would have a tendency to purify the air , and arrest the progress of the disorder . The people had , therefore , almost every ...
... produce that effect , to their graves . An idea had gone abroad , that the burning of fires in the streets , would have a tendency to purify the air , and arrest the progress of the disorder . The people had , therefore , almost every ...
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
adopted afford amount ANDREW ADGATE annual appears attended banks believe benevolent Bushhill Cape François cents character cloudy fair comfort committee consequence considerable degree disorder distress dollars per annum employed employment equal evil expense fair fair fellow citizens female five friends half HENRY DEFOREST honour hope hospital human hundred important increase industry Infant School infected inhabitants labour ladies letter liberal liberty lords justices Mac-Mahon malignant fever Mathew Carey MATTHEW CLARKSON means ment miserable moral nation nearly never O'Conally object oppressed Pennsylvania pernicious persons Peter Helm Philadelphia Philo Junius poor portion present prevailed probably procure produce proper quarto racter received regarded relief render respectable sick Sir William Parsons slavery slaves society South Carolina Stephen Girard subscribers subscription sufferings Thomas Savery tion town United vessels wages week whole wholly women yellow fever
Популярные отрывки
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.