The Polite Miscellany: Containing Variety of Food for the Mind; Being an Elegant Collection of Moral, Humourous, and Improving Essays, &c, Both in Prose and Verse ...R. Whitworth, 1764 - 370 strán (strany) |
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Strana 18
... laws , with any juftice be applied to this generation , which were not made for it ? And laws , which long difufe feems to have antiquated . And could thefe laws be of any force against the Protef- tants , to revive them , we dare aver ...
... laws , with any juftice be applied to this generation , which were not made for it ? And laws , which long difufe feems to have antiquated . And could thefe laws be of any force against the Protef- tants , to revive them , we dare aver ...
Strana 19
... law ; fuch a law , good order , decency , and the fafety of your fubjects require ; and fuch a law we confidently expect from your Majesty's paternal goodness . What is infifted on relatively to the baptifm of our children , gives us no ...
... law ; fuch a law , good order , decency , and the fafety of your fubjects require ; and fuch a law we confidently expect from your Majesty's paternal goodness . What is infifted on relatively to the baptifm of our children , gives us no ...
Strana 24
... law ; The Son of GEORGE , the Image of Naffau . SIR , To the PRINTER , If the underwritten Infcription ( by the ingenious dr . Akinside ) for a Column at Runnymede , Windfor , be thought deferving a place in your Paper , the inferting ...
... law ; The Son of GEORGE , the Image of Naffau . SIR , To the PRINTER , If the underwritten Infcription ( by the ingenious dr . Akinside ) for a Column at Runnymede , Windfor , be thought deferving a place in your Paper , the inferting ...
Strana 28
... laws , Can each effect afcribe to it's own caufe ; Trample on terrors and relentlefs fate , And hear the din of Acheron , fedate ! And now , my dear friend , that the worft is paft , I feel a pleafing ferenity fucceed the gloom that for ...
... laws , Can each effect afcribe to it's own caufe ; Trample on terrors and relentlefs fate , And hear the din of Acheron , fedate ! And now , my dear friend , that the worft is paft , I feel a pleafing ferenity fucceed the gloom that for ...
Strana 38
... law- ful that fuits their inclinations : While they are in a career of diverfions , they really look upon honour , integrity , and virtue , as empty , infignificant founds . * Virtutem Verba putant , ut Lucum Ligna So indeed they are to ...
... law- ful that fuits their inclinations : While they are in a career of diverfions , they really look upon honour , integrity , and virtue , as empty , infignificant founds . * Virtutem Verba putant , ut Lucum Ligna So indeed they are to ...
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Strana 203 - King, upon the commencement of the last war with France pulled down his old sign, and put up the Queen of Hungary. Under the influence of her red face and golden sceptre, he continued to sell ale till she was no longer the favourite of his customers; he changed her, therefore, some time ago, for the King of Prussia, who may probably be changed in turn for the next great man that shall be set up for vulgar admiration.
Strana 114 - Ye mute Companions of my Toils, that bear In all my Griefs a more than equal Share!
Strana 176 - By lust incited, or by malice led, The villain Arab ! as he prowls for prey, Oft marks with blood and...
Strana 121 - ... more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a...
Strana 114 - What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger...
Strana 232 - Griping misers, nightly waking, See the end of all your care ; Fled on wings of our own making, We have left our owners bare.
Strana 205 - ... the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. Where was there ever so much merit seen ; no times so important as our own ; ages yet unborn shall gaze with wonder and applause...
Strana 103 - Grac'd with soft arts, the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you to your loves...
Strana 24 - Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid Those thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue. And if chance thy home Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
Strana 287 - Little do such men know the toil, the pains, The daily, nightly racking of the brains, To range the thoughts, the matter to digest, To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest...