The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Zväzok 11

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Bickers and Son, 1903

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Strana 59 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any persons, to the number of twelve or more, being unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace...
Strana 60 - England from the penalties of certain laws, or any dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out-house, that then every such demolishing, or pulling down, or beginning to demolish, or pull down, shall be adjudged felony without benefit of clergy...
Strana xxv - There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Strana 190 - Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est." "O demens, ita servus homo est? nil fecerit, esto: Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
Strana 198 - Hannibal et stantes Collina turre mariti. nunc patimur longae pacis mala, saevior armis luxuria incubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem. nullum crimen abest facinusque libidinis, ex quo paupertas Romana perit.
Strana 134 - Our nation's envy and its pride ; While foreign courts with wonder gaze, And curse those councils which they praise ; Would you not wonder, sir, to view Your bard a greater man than you ? Which that he is, you cannot doubt, When you have read the sequel out. You know, great sir, that ancient fellows, Philosophers, and such folks, tell us, No great analogy between Greatness and happiness is seen. If then, as it might follow straight, Wretched to be, is to be great ; Forbid it, Gods, that you should...
Strana xxiv - not," she said, " a very odd thing that I, an old woman of eighty and ' upwards, sitting alone, feel myself ashamed to read a book which ' sixty years ago I have heard read aloud for the amusement of large ' " circles, consisting of the first and most creditable society in London...
Strana 95 - The last of these is the true sublime in human nature. That elevation by which the soul of man, raising and extending itself above the order of this creation, and brightened with a certain ray of divinity, looks down on the condition of mortals. This is indeed a glorious object, on which we can never gaze with too much praise and admiration.
Strana 60 - That if any Persons unlawfully, riotously and tumultuously assembled together, to the Disturbance of the Public Peace, shall unlawfully, and with Force demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down any Church or Chapel, or any Building for Religious Worship certified and registered according to the Statute2 made in the First Year of the Reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, ... or any Dwelling-house, Barn, Stable or other Out-house, that then every such demolishing, or pulling...
Strana 135 - We're often taught it doth behove us To think those greater who're above us. Another instance of my glory, Who live above you twice two story, And from my garret can look down On the whole street of...

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