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... able to give place to another communication from Sosia , but we have been disappointed — so will our readers . We have endeavoured this month to make some amends to our poetical contribu- tors . Mr. Bisset will find his amusing favour ...
... able to give place to another communication from Sosia , but we have been disappointed — so will our readers . We have endeavoured this month to make some amends to our poetical contribu- tors . Mr. Bisset will find his amusing favour ...
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... able exactly to set a price up- on the ladies of my country , so as to be able to form a judgment ; but really , if importations into each Presidency be as numerous as those by the Princess Charlotte , there is much reason to fear that ...
... able exactly to set a price up- on the ladies of my country , so as to be able to form a judgment ; but really , if importations into each Presidency be as numerous as those by the Princess Charlotte , there is much reason to fear that ...
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... able degree offensive to our old- fashioned notions of propriety , to observe the mode in which ladies , some of rank and education , were a few years ago accustomed to dis- pose of themselves at Calcutta , and I apprehend at Madras and ...
... able degree offensive to our old- fashioned notions of propriety , to observe the mode in which ladies , some of rank and education , were a few years ago accustomed to dis- pose of themselves at Calcutta , and I apprehend at Madras and ...
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... able to separate them , and the very means which she took to do it , re- Become wise by experience , Dorval from that moment trusted to the love of his wife as the sur- est means of preserving his autho- rity as à husband ; but though ...
... able to separate them , and the very means which she took to do it , re- Become wise by experience , Dorval from that moment trusted to the love of his wife as the sur- est means of preserving his autho- rity as à husband ; but though ...
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... able to solve their questions , hun- dreds , I dare say , thronged towards Westminster , in hopes of hearing I must , however , exonerate you from all blame ; and the eager in- quirers must be told , that a man of my attainments is not ...
... able to solve their questions , hun- dreds , I dare say , thronged towards Westminster , in hopes of hearing I must , however , exonerate you from all blame ; and the eager in- quirers must be told , that a man of my attainments is not ...
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Página 88 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 223 - It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Página 203 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Página 195 - So like an arrow swift he flew Shot by an archer strong, So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Página 195 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Página 222 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Página 222 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Página 222 - But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity.
Página 237 - M'Namara, the gentleman who was sent to him, who has a natural eloquence, and an excellent understanding, urged the most cogent reasons, and used all the arts of persuasion, to induce him to part with his mistress, and even proceeded so far as to assure him, according to his instructions...
Página 236 - When he (Charles Edward) was in Scotland, he had a mistress whose name was Walkinshaw, and whose sister was at that time, and is still, housekeeper at Leicester House. Some years after he was released from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to...