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Pagina 18
... John Cullum , ' the History and Antiquities of Hawsted , ' published in 1784 , we have the following remarks : - " The thanking the Almighty for the blessing of a sound under- standing , when a man was about to perform one of the most ...
... John Cullum , ' the History and Antiquities of Hawsted , ' published in 1784 , we have the following remarks : - " The thanking the Almighty for the blessing of a sound under- standing , when a man was about to perform one of the most ...
Pagina 20
... John of Tor , nor no other that owes you ; letting you wit that I was on St. Law- rence day at Melton with forty of your sheep to sell , and could sell none of them , but if [ unless ] I would have selled twenty of the best of them for ...
... John of Tor , nor no other that owes you ; letting you wit that I was on St. Law- rence day at Melton with forty of your sheep to sell , and could sell none of them , but if [ unless ] I would have selled twenty of the best of them for ...
Pagina 23
... JOHN STAG . ORTH BRITON OMCER45 NORTHBRITON NUMBER 17 H BERTY John Wilkes THE IRON AGE . 23.
... JOHN STAG . ORTH BRITON OMCER45 NORTHBRITON NUMBER 17 H BERTY John Wilkes THE IRON AGE . 23.
Pagina 24
ORTH BRITON OMCER45 NORTHBRITON NUMBER 17 H BERTY John Wilkes . ginall immense strength , that he was known far and wide.
ORTH BRITON OMCER45 NORTHBRITON NUMBER 17 H BERTY John Wilkes . ginall immense strength , that he was known far and wide.
Pagina 25
... JOHN WILKES . BY HOGARTH . HOGARTH was not a caricaturist in the ordinary sense of the word . His reputation is founded upon the entire truth of his pictures . He is the greatest of satirists , -and that character excludes the burlesque ...
... JOHN WILKES . BY HOGARTH . HOGARTH was not a caricaturist in the ordinary sense of the word . His reputation is founded upon the entire truth of his pictures . He is the greatest of satirists , -and that character excludes the burlesque ...
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Pagina 226 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 92 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Pagina 254 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Pagina 224 - When you kissed your lily hands to your lemans today; And to-morrow shall the fox, from her chambers in the rocks, Lead forth her tawny cubs to howl above the prey. Where be your tongues that late...
Pagina 249 - Whep he saw a gasping knight lie there, With a gash beneath his clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the loyal churchman strove in vain . To mutter a Pater...
Pagina 19 - I judge this to be true, and utter it with heaviness, — that neither the Britons under the Romans and Saxons, nor yet the English people under the Danes and Normans, had ever such damage of their learned monuments, as we have seen in our time. Our posterity may well curse this wicked fact of our age, this unreasonable spoil of England's most noble antiquities."* 4.
Pagina 206 - O Printing! how hast thou disturbed the peace of mankind! That lead, when moulded into bullets, is not so mortal, as when founded into letters. There was a mistake, sure, in the story of Cadmus; and the serpent's teeth, which he sowed, were nothing else but the letters which he invented.
Pagina 225 - Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things.
Pagina 249 - And the Priest was ready to vomit, When he hauled out a gentleman, fine and fat, With a belly as big as a brimming vat, And a nose as red as a comet. " A capital stew," the Fisherman said,
Pagina 83 - Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul!