Harrison's British Classicks, Zväzok 1Harrison and Company, 1785 |
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Strana 30
... fortune by bad fecurities ; and , with her way of giving her mo- ney to every body that pretended to want it , he could have little before- hand ; therefore I might ferve her ; for , with all her fine fenfe , the muft not pretend to be ...
... fortune by bad fecurities ; and , with her way of giving her mo- ney to every body that pretended to want it , he could have little before- hand ; therefore I might ferve her ; for , with all her fine fenfe , the muft not pretend to be ...
Strana 36
... fortune ; who envies the elevations which he cannot reach , who would gladly imbitter the happi- nefs which his inelegance or indigence deny him to partake , and who has no other end in his advice than to revenge his own mortification ...
... fortune ; who envies the elevations which he cannot reach , who would gladly imbitter the happi- nefs which his inelegance or indigence deny him to partake , and who has no other end in his advice than to revenge his own mortification ...
Strana 37
... fortune , procured me every conve- nience for my departure , with great ex- pedition ; and I could not , amidst all my tranfports , forbear fome indigna- tion to fee with what readiness the na- tural guardians of my virtue fold me to a ...
... fortune , procured me every conve- nience for my departure , with great ex- pedition ; and I could not , amidst all my tranfports , forbear fome indigna- tion to fee with what readiness the na- tural guardians of my virtue fold me to a ...
Strana 44
... fortune ; for eftimating the exact worth of annuities , he found that , confidering the conftant diminution of the value of life , with the probable fall of the intereft of money , it was not worse to have ten thousand pounds at the age ...
... fortune ; for eftimating the exact worth of annuities , he found that , confidering the conftant diminution of the value of life , with the probable fall of the intereft of money , it was not worse to have ten thousand pounds at the age ...
Strana 46
... fortune , without a thought of the thousands that are fall- ing round him . is never without very melancholy With the fame kind of anxious vene- ration , I have for many years been mak- ing obfervations on the life of Poly- philus , a ...
... fortune , without a thought of the thousands that are fall- ing round him . is never without very melancholy With the fame kind of anxious vene- ration , I have for many years been mak- ing obfervations on the life of Poly- philus , a ...
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Strana 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Strana 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Strana 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Strana 450 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Strana 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Strana 20 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Strana 318 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable!
Strana 355 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Strana 463 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Strana 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.