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... myself incapable . While I bufy myself as a stranger upon earth , and can pretend to no other than being a looker - on , you are confpicuous in the busy and polite world , both in the world of men , and that of letters . While I am ...
... myself incapable . While I bufy myself as a stranger upon earth , and can pretend to no other than being a looker - on , you are confpicuous in the busy and polite world , both in the world of men , and that of letters . While I am ...
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... myself by a most profound filence ; for dur- ing the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the college , I scarce utter- ed the quantity of an hundred words ; and in- deed do not remember that I ever spoke three ...
... myself by a most profound filence ; for dur- ing the space of eight years , excepting in the public exercises of the college , I scarce utter- ed the quantity of an hundred words ; and in- deed do not remember that I ever spoke three ...
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... myself right in that particular , returned to my native coun- try with great fatisfaction * . I have passed my latter years in this city , where I am frequently seen in most public places , though there are not above half a do- zen of ...
... myself right in that particular , returned to my native coun- try with great fatisfaction * . I have passed my latter years in this city , where I am frequently seen in most public places , though there are not above half a do- zen of ...
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... myself a specula- tive statefman , soldier , merchant , and artisan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well versed in the theory of a husband , or a father , and can difcern the errors in the economy ...
... myself a specula- tive statefman , soldier , merchant , and artisan , without ever meddling with any practical part in life . I am very well versed in the theory of a husband , or a father , and can difcern the errors in the economy ...
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... myself out , if poffible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is pity so many useful discoveries which I have made should be in the poffeffion of a filent man . For this reason , therefore , I shall pub- lish ...
... myself out , if poffible , before I die . I have been often told by my friends , that it is pity so many useful discoveries which I have made should be in the poffeffion of a filent man . For this reason , therefore , I shall pub- lish ...
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Page 152 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 45 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 74 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Page 149 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 232 - To you, good gods, I make my last appeal ; Or clear my virtues, or my crimes reveal. If in the maze of fate I blindly run, And backward trod those paths I sought to shun, Impute my errors to your own decree : My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Page 412 - Scotland can witness be, I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came, Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase. "Now God be with him...
Page 61 - I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes, as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex. In the...
Page 151 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.
Page 273 - The truth of it is, a man is not qualified for a butt, who has not a good deal of wit and vivacity, even in the ridiculous side of his character. A stupid butt is only fit for the conversation of...
Page 5 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.