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Pagina 23
... honor and glory , now , and for evermore , Amen . " There is an excellent sermon by Swift on the text , " The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God ; " and another upon ' Sleeping in Church . ' In his ' Thoughts on Various ...
... honor and glory , now , and for evermore , Amen . " There is an excellent sermon by Swift on the text , " The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God ; " and another upon ' Sleeping in Church . ' In his ' Thoughts on Various ...
Pagina 32
... honor . In ' Sir Charles Grandison , ' Harriet Byron says , in one of her letters to Lucy Selby , " I am very much mistaken , if every woman would not find her account , if she wishes herself to be thought well of , in discouraging ...
... honor . In ' Sir Charles Grandison , ' Harriet Byron says , in one of her letters to Lucy Selby , " I am very much mistaken , if every woman would not find her account , if she wishes herself to be thought well of , in discouraging ...
Pagina 37
... honor was paid to her virtues and understanding . Steele was the author of those days , who seems to have regarded women with most respect , and to have been most disposed to look upon them as something better than playthings for ...
... honor was paid to her virtues and understanding . Steele was the author of those days , who seems to have regarded women with most respect , and to have been most disposed to look upon them as something better than playthings for ...
Pagina 62
... honor of families . The corpus delicti was , however , condemned , and sentence of forfeiture pronounced . And in the letter of the lawyer of the Western Circuit , which I have already quoted , he says : " As I proceeded on my * Mrs ...
... honor of families . The corpus delicti was , however , condemned , and sentence of forfeiture pronounced . And in the letter of the lawyer of the Western Circuit , which I have already quoted , he says : " As I proceeded on my * Mrs ...
Pagina 65
... honor of his nuptials , his best coat of blue broadcloth , cut by a tailor of Ramsgate , and trimmed with five dozen of brass buttons , large and small . His breeches were of the same piece , fastened at the knees with large bunches of ...
... honor of his nuptials , his best coat of blue broadcloth , cut by a tailor of Ramsgate , and trimmed with five dozen of brass buttons , large and small . His breeches were of the same piece , fastened at the knees with large bunches of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 38 - Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?
Pagina 307 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. 'My dear Mr. Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Pagina 199 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Pagina 284 - A fig for the silver rims,' cried my wife, in a passion : 'I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce.'— 'You need be under no uneasiness,' cried I, 'about selling the rims; for they are not worth six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Pagina 108 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 73 - 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 stock-jobbers at Jonathan's. In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club.
Pagina 122 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then...
Pagina 23 - Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Pagina 19 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Pagina 312 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.