Literary Amusements: In Verse and ProseJ. Dodsley, 1787 - 76 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... England , France , Ger- many , and the United Provinces . The knowledge of these things tends to cultivate and to form your mind ; but the most important bufinefs is to form your heart , that is , to make you an honeft man . As fuch ...
... England , France , Ger- many , and the United Provinces . The knowledge of these things tends to cultivate and to form your mind ; but the most important bufinefs is to form your heart , that is , to make you an honeft man . As fuch ...
Pagina 33
... Lord Mayor is chofen every year out of the Court of Aldermen . There are but two Lord Mayors in England ; one for the city of London , and C 5 the the other for the city of York . The Mayors LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS . 33.
... Lord Mayor is chofen every year out of the Court of Aldermen . There are but two Lord Mayors in England ; one for the city of London , and C 5 the the other for the city of York . The Mayors LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS . 33.
Pagina 43
... England , which will be , I believe , in about a fortnight . I own I am impatient to see the great progrefs which I am per- fuaded you have made , both in your learning and behaviour , during my fix months abfence . I join behaviour ...
... England , which will be , I believe , in about a fortnight . I own I am impatient to see the great progrefs which I am per- fuaded you have made , both in your learning and behaviour , during my fix months abfence . I join behaviour ...
Pagina 46
... England . The Goths were a brave but barbarous nation . War was their whole bufinefs , and they had not the leaft notion of arts , fciences , and learning ; on the contrary they had an averfion to them , and deftroyed , wherever they ...
... England . The Goths were a brave but barbarous nation . War was their whole bufinefs , and they had not the leaft notion of arts , fciences , and learning ; on the contrary they had an averfion to them , and deftroyed , wherever they ...
Pagina 60
... England . Thefe Saxons divided England into feven kingdoms ; which were called the Saxon Heptarchy , from Etta , feven , and αρχών , chief . Afterwards the Danes invaded England , and made themselves mafters of it ; but were foon driven ...
... England . Thefe Saxons divided England into feven kingdoms ; which were called the Saxon Heptarchy , from Etta , feven , and αρχών , chief . Afterwards the Danes invaded England , and made themselves mafters of it ; but were foon driven ...
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Pagina 16 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Pagina 53 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!
Pagina 51 - ALONE, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.
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Pagina 55 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar.
Pagina 21 - Connal ? and who recount thy fathers ? Thy family grew like an oak on the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. But now it is torn from the earth.
Pagina 8 - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...
Pagina vii - It is believed, that, by a careful inquiry, many more remains of ancient genius, no lefs valuable than thofe now given to the world, might .be found in the fame country where thefe have been collected.
Pagina 47 - Close it not till Colma come. My life flies away like a dream! why should I stay behind?
Pagina 24 - Oscian, prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades thy mighty soul? Memory, son of Alpin, memory wounds the aged. Of former times are my thoughts; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal.