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... to serve it . In short , if you would be eminent in war or peace , you must become master of all the qualifications that can make you so . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I can propose CHOICE OF HERCULES . 3.
... to serve it . In short , if you would be eminent in war or peace , you must become master of all the qualifications that can make you so . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I can propose CHOICE OF HERCULES . 3.
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... short and easy . ' " Alas , ( said the other lady , whose visage glowed with a passion made up of scorn and pity , ) what are the pleasures you propose ? to eat before you are hungry , drink before you 10 are athirst , sleep before you ...
... short and easy . ' " Alas , ( said the other lady , whose visage glowed with a passion made up of scorn and pity , ) what are the pleasures you propose ? to eat before you are hungry , drink before you 10 are athirst , sleep before you ...
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... short , there is scarce a calamity in human life that has not produced me a letter . It is , indeed , wonderful to consider , how men are able to raise affliction to themselves out of everything . Lands and houses , sheep and oxen , can ...
... short , there is scarce a calamity in human life that has not produced me a letter . It is , indeed , wonderful to consider , how men are able to raise affliction to themselves out of everything . Lands and houses , sheep and oxen , can ...
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... short reach of understanding ; a play - house , a drawing - room , a 30 ball , a visiting - day , or a ring at Hyde Park , are the few notes they are masters of , which they touch upon in all con- versations . The trumpet , however , is ...
... short reach of understanding ; a play - house , a drawing - room , a 30 ball , a visiting - day , or a ring at Hyde Park , are the few notes they are masters of , which they touch upon in all con- versations . The trumpet , however , is ...
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... short , I look upon every sensible , true - born Briton to be naturally a bass - viol . As for your rural wits , who talk with great eloquence and alacrity of foxes , hounds , horses , quickset hedges , and six- bar gates , double ...
... short , I look upon every sensible , true - born Briton to be naturally a bass - viol . As for your rural wits , who talk with great eloquence and alacrity of foxes , hounds , horses , quickset hedges , and six- bar gates , double ...
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Сторінка 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Сторінка 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 68 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Сторінка 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Сторінка 60 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Сторінка 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Сторінка 70 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 61 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Сторінка 57 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Сторінка 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.