The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in Prose and Verse:: Consisting of Original Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, Dialogues, Letters, Characters, &c. &c. In Two Volumes, Volume 1J. Budd, 1804 |
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Pagina 8
... any buckle now will do ; Provided it will hold the latchet , There's no occasion , Sir , to match it ; Odd buckles sell for one third price , So there's a saving in a trice , Then Then soap and washing ' s sav'd , you see DR . SHERIDAN .
... any buckle now will do ; Provided it will hold the latchet , There's no occasion , Sir , to match it ; Odd buckles sell for one third price , So there's a saving in a trice , Then Then soap and washing ' s sav'd , you see DR . SHERIDAN .
Pagina 16
... occasion that will be long remembered in this part of the island ; and as poets succeed best in fiction , per- haps in addition to his youth , the best apology will be to assure you , that they are founded in truth . They were written ...
... occasion that will be long remembered in this part of the island ; and as poets succeed best in fiction , per- haps in addition to his youth , the best apology will be to assure you , that they are founded in truth . They were written ...
Pagina 27
... occasion on which they were written . In pity first to human kind , Love taught the art of writing ; But soon deceit stept in , we find , And taught man false inditing . False vows , false words , nay e'en false tears , Soon after were ...
... occasion on which they were written . In pity first to human kind , Love taught the art of writing ; But soon deceit stept in , we find , And taught man false inditing . False vows , false words , nay e'en false tears , Soon after were ...
Pagina 43
... occasion to regret my seclusion from a world , in which I had been hardly treated from my in- fancy . To provide for future want was my prin- cipal concern ; for this purpose I pulled several clusters of the richest grapes , and placed ...
... occasion to regret my seclusion from a world , in which I had been hardly treated from my in- fancy . To provide for future want was my prin- cipal concern ; for this purpose I pulled several clusters of the richest grapes , and placed ...
Pagina 57
... occasion the Hungarian language may well claim the superiority over that of any other ; it is insulated - it bears no affinity to any one known language on earth . It agrees , undoubtedly , with the Turkish in twenty or thirty words ...
... occasion the Hungarian language may well claim the superiority over that of any other ; it is insulated - it bears no affinity to any one known language on earth . It agrees , undoubtedly , with the Turkish in twenty or thirty words ...
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The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in ..., Volume 1 Charles Henry Wilson Volledige weergave - 1804 |
The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in ..., Volume 1 Charles Henry Wilson Volledige weergave - 1804 |
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Pagina 306 - At home, by ill temper. She was a professed enemy to flattery, And was seldom known to praise or commend ; BUT The talents in which she principally excelled, Were difference of opinion, and discovering flaws and imperfections. She was an admirable economist, And, without prodigality, Dispensed plenty to every person in her family ; BUT Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle. She sometimes made her husband happy with her good qualities ; BUT Much more frequently miserable — with her many...
Pagina 248 - Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation...
Pagina 378 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
Pagina 280 - ... deduced from the nature and reason of things. We believe the existence of an Almighty Being from the consideration of his wonderful works, from those innumerable celestial and glorious bodies, and from their wonderful order and harmony. "We have also spent some time in viewing those wonders which are to be seen in the minute part of the world, and that with great pleasure and satisfaction.
Pagina 305 - HERE lie the bodies of Thomas Bond, and Mary his wife. She was temperate, chaste, and charitable; BUT, she was proud, peevish, and passionate. She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother...
Pagina 311 - ... that many of you will find it difficult to reconcile my appearance yesterday with my character. Many of you, I know, will say that my moments would have been better employed in praying for the unhappy man than in attending him to the fatal tree, and that perhaps curiosity was the only cause that converted me into a spectator on that occasion. But those who ascribe that uncharitable motive to me, are under a mistake. I...
Pagina 157 - Threni Hibernici ; or Ireland sympathizing with England and Scotland, in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah...
Pagina 290 - Some years ago the Shawano Indians, being obliged to remove from their habitations, in their way took a Muskohge warrior, known by the name of old Scrany, prisoner; they bastinadoed him severely, and condemned him to the fiery torture.
Pagina 327 - ... or a man wounded. At another time, five boys fetched in four cows. They that stood on the hills, called to one in a house in the valley, crying, " Shoot, Anthony ; " but Anthony thought it good to sleep in a whole skin, and durst not look out, so that afterwards it grew into a proverbial jeer, from the defendants to the assailants, " Shoot, Anthony." The rebels having spent much time and ammunition, and some men, and yet being as far from hopes of taking the castle as the first day they came...
Pagina 379 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those...