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R. Bentley, 1859 - 376 páginas
 

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Página 47 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee ; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
Página 174 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Página 170 - For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Página 279 - The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two or three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer than she.
Página 200 - A Man may as well expect to grow stronger by always Eating, as wiser by always Reading. Too much over-charges Nature, and turns more into Disease than Nourishment. 'Tis Thought and Digestion which makes Books serviceable, and gives Health and Vigour to the Mind.
Página 200 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 324 - O maxime conjux ! O thalamis indigne meis ! Hoc juris habebat In tantum fortuna caput ? Cur impia nupsi, Si miserum factura fui ? Nunc accipe poenas, Sed quas sponte luam.
Página 104 - Flaxman,' said the President one day, as he chanced to meet him, ' I am told you are married ; if so, sir, I tell you you are ruined for an artist.' ' Flaxman went home, sat down beside his wife, took her hand, and said with a smile,
Página 341 - ... straightway deprived of their souls, which are fastened down for ever, in duly ticketed pipkins ! There are waterwolfs and bottle-imps, and there are the jolly elf fraternity at Ehrenthal, whose sole business it is, like Chaucer's friends, to "Hold their hippes and loffe." Werlau is the residence of the gnome king of shadows. In the valley is his dwelling-place, and it is said that when two young persons of the locality become attached to each other, there spring up in the valley two flowers,...
Página 176 - The report is that of two speeches of W. Th — nt — n, Esq. against a standing army, and in favour of a militia, which speeches AB is anxious should reach the honourable gentleman's constituents through Mr. Urban. They are brief, sensible addresses, but the following paragraph is that in which...

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