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gain , and passion for glory , to be the honour and example to the profession of
arms : all which engaging qualities your noble family has exerted with so stedfast
a loyalty , that , in the most adverse fortune of our monarchy , popularity , which in
...
gain , and passion for glory , to be the honour and example to the profession of
arms : all which engaging qualities your noble family has exerted with so stedfast
a loyalty , that , in the most adverse fortune of our monarchy , popularity , which in
...
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FTER having long celebrated the fuperior graces and excellencies anong men ,
in an imaginary character , I do myself the honour to fhew my veneration for
transcendent merit under my own name , in this address to your Lordship . The
just ...
FTER having long celebrated the fuperior graces and excellencies anong men ,
in an imaginary character , I do myself the honour to fhew my veneration for
transcendent merit under my own name , in this address to your Lordship . The
just ...
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Honour is the conscience of doing just and laudable actions , independent of the
success of those actions . God is the fountain of this honour , and animates and
supports all who are actuated by it ; he is an inexhaustible fountain , and cannot ...
Honour is the conscience of doing just and laudable actions , independent of the
success of those actions . God is the fountain of this honour , and animates and
supports all who are actuated by it ; he is an inexhaustible fountain , and cannot ...
Сторінка 394
... our present Clergy appear in the eyes of their posterity , and even to the
fucceffors of their own order , under a government introduced and eftablished by
a conduct so directly opposite to all the rules of honour and precepts of Chrif .
tianity !
... our present Clergy appear in the eyes of their posterity , and even to the
fucceffors of their own order , under a government introduced and eftablished by
a conduct so directly opposite to all the rules of honour and precepts of Chrif .
tianity !
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It is , therefore , that we pay distinguished honours to our late departed friend ,
and pronounce Sir Richard Steele a ... and seasoned to the toils of war ; yet ,
greatly brave , and of unquestioned honour , his was a lettered genius , nor fond
of ...
It is , therefore , that we pay distinguished honours to our late departed friend ,
and pronounce Sir Richard Steele a ... and seasoned to the toils of war ; yet ,
greatly brave , and of unquestioned honour , his was a lettered genius , nor fond
of ...
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Addiſon affectionate againſt appear believe beſt buſineſs called character circumſtance Commons concern DEAR PRUE deſign deſire direct Duke Earl excellent expect faithful father favour firſt fortune give given hand happy heart himſelf honour hope houſe humble ſervant huſband intereſt juſt kind King Lady STEELE laſt late leave LETTER LETTER live Lord Madam manner March mean meet mind morning moſt humble moſt obedient muſt myſelf nature never night obliged perſon pleaſed pleaſure preſent reaſon received Rich RICHARD STEELE ſaid ſame ſay SCURLOCK ſee ſend Sept ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould Sir Richard ſome ſon ſpeak ſubject ſuch tell theſe thing thoſe thought tion town uſe virtue volume whole wife wiſh write written yourſelf
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Сторінка 342 - VITAL spark of heavenly flame ! Quit, oh, quit this mortal frame ! Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying : Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying ! Cease, fond nature ! cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark, they whisper ; angels say,
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Сторінка 461 - ... William, it being the 4th November, as to drink his friend Addison up to conversation pitch, whose phlegmatic constitution was hardly warmed for society by that time. Steele was not fit for it. Two remarkable circumstances happened. John Sly, the hatter of facetious memory, was in the house; and...
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| Назва | Letters to and from his friends and patrons Том 2 з серії The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele: In Two Volumes, Sir Richard Steele |
| Автор | Sir Richard Steele |
| Ілюстрації | John Nichols |
| Видавець | editor, 1787 |
| Оригінал із | Оксфордський університет |
| Оцифровано | 12 лип. 2007 |
| Обсяг | 518 стор. |
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