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John Kingston, book-seller, Samuel Magill, printer, 1809 - 294 pagina's

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Pagina 97 - too sensible of my defects, not to ' think it probable that I may have committed ' many errors. Whatever they may be, I fer* vently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate ' the evils to which they may tend. I shall also
Pagina 107 - too sensible of my defects, not to ' think it probable that I may have committed ' many errors. Whatever they may be, I fer' vently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate '- the evils to which they may tend. I shall also
Pagina 4 - United States of America, John '-• Kingston, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:—
Pagina 292 - With strains it was a privilege to hear. Yet above all, his luxury supreme. And his chief glory was the Gospel theme ; There he was copious as old Greece or Rome. His happy eloquence seem'd there at home. Ambitious not-to shine or to excel, 'But to treat justly what he lov'd so well.
Pagina 269 - The floors of plaster and the walls of dung ; On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw; The George and garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty
Pagina 168 - which imagination can delight to be detained ; and with a mind, that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shews him, and that he never yet has felt what
Pagina 269 - Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. " In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster and the walls of dung ; On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw; The George and garter dangling from that bed, Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty
Pagina 253 - which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot on British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom
Pagina 253 - your oaths. Do you think that a blessing of that kind, that a victory obtained by justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it, by an ignominious sentence upon men, bold and honest enough to propose that measure, to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church, the reclaiming
Pagina 253 - emancipation. 1 speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from British soil, which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot on British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in what language his doom

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