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 - 404 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... present , in the bosom of every true subject of the United Kingdom : a proof of the gratitude and good sense of the people , to ap- preciate the first and best gift of Heaven , 1 RATIONAL LIBERTY . The story of Thomas Sainvitz may ...
... present , in the bosom of every true subject of the United Kingdom : a proof of the gratitude and good sense of the people , to ap- preciate the first and best gift of Heaven , 1 RATIONAL LIBERTY . The story of Thomas Sainvitz may ...
Pagina 7
... present you with another , a bud of the same spring . Verses on a Wooden Leg . Divines , especially your old ones , Will gravely tell you , if they're cold ones , That you may father on the Devil Each act and deed of moral evil ; His ...
... present you with another , a bud of the same spring . Verses on a Wooden Leg . Divines , especially your old ones , Will gravely tell you , if they're cold ones , That you may father on the Devil Each act and deed of moral evil ; His ...
Pagina 12
... present , for I see you are very much affected . You must consider this mat- ter . Was she young and handsome ? Sorrow . Both . Reason . Two great temptations . You married her for her beauty ? Sorrow . I did . Reason . You should have ...
... present , for I see you are very much affected . You must consider this mat- ter . Was she young and handsome ? Sorrow . Both . Reason . Two great temptations . You married her for her beauty ? Sorrow . I did . Reason . You should have ...
Pagina 18
... present tense ; In love , at least , it is the best , For time , you know , destroys the zest . With honied words , and accents mild , Conducted by fair Venus ' child , " I'm come to offer you my hand , Not " I'm 18 DR . SHERIDAN .
... present tense ; In love , at least , it is the best , For time , you know , destroys the zest . With honied words , and accents mild , Conducted by fair Venus ' child , " I'm come to offer you my hand , Not " I'm 18 DR . SHERIDAN .
Pagina 22
... present mo- ment , never thought of the next ; and that is more than some of your boasted sages could , notwithstanding all their preachments . We were received in the most friendly manner by the lady , with that look and tone which ...
... present mo- ment , never thought of the next ; and that is more than some of your boasted sages could , notwithstanding all their preachments . We were received in the most friendly manner by the lady , with that look and tone which ...
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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...