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... less Barnabas Alban - John the baptist Peter Swithin 255 Singular advice 324 Simmons , Caroline 361 Solomon's temple visited 196,392 South America , Humboldt's 482 Sporting on the water 71 Spanish Widow potteries 485 Staffordhor 56 ...
... less Barnabas Alban - John the baptist Peter Swithin 255 Singular advice 324 Simmons , Caroline 361 Solomon's temple visited 196,392 South America , Humboldt's 482 Sporting on the water 71 Spanish Widow potteries 485 Staffordhor 56 ...
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... less mind . C. K. T ROB ROY . From the Literary Gazette , January 17 , 1818 . HIS long - looked - for novel , by the and accuracy of delineation , as absolute- author of Waverly , Guy Manner- ly to have been reviewed , by the most ing ...
... less mind . C. K. T ROB ROY . From the Literary Gazette , January 17 , 1818 . HIS long - looked - for novel , by the and accuracy of delineation , as absolute- author of Waverly , Guy Manner- ly to have been reviewed , by the most ing ...
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... less of invention kind . The description of his death , in- necessary than in others . He seems only deed , is one of the most dreadful and less barbarous , or , we may say , more ci- touching that we ever read . He is treach- vilised ...
... less of invention kind . The description of his death , in- necessary than in others . He seems only deed , is one of the most dreadful and less barbarous , or , we may say , more ci- touching that we ever read . He is treach- vilised ...
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... . " Shakspeare Nor were the shoes and boots of this alludes to the large boots with ruffles , period less extravagantly ostentatious . or loose tops , which were frequently 14 Dress of Beaux in the Reigns of Elizabeth and.
... . " Shakspeare Nor were the shoes and boots of this alludes to the large boots with ruffles , period less extravagantly ostentatious . or loose tops , which were frequently 14 Dress of Beaux in the Reigns of Elizabeth and.
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... less sumptuous and expensive than buckelers on their thighes , instead of his exterior apparel ; his shirts , relates cuts and gardes and light daunsing that minute observer , Stubbs , were made swordes ; and when they rode , carrying ...
... less sumptuous and expensive than buckelers on their thighes , instead of his exterior apparel ; his shirts , relates cuts and gardes and light daunsing that minute observer , Stubbs , were made swordes ; and when they rode , carrying ...
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Página 300 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 331 - ... a speckled ax was best." For something that pretended to be reason was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which if it were known would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Página 300 - Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee. Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, — Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Página 329 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
Página 331 - What reverses may attend the remainder is in the hand of Providence ; but, if they arrive, the reflection on past happiness enjoyed ought to help his bearing them with more resignation. To Temperance he ascribes his long-continued health, and what is still left to him of a good constitution; to Industry and Frugality, the early easiness of his circumstances and acquisition of his fortune, with all that knowledge...
Página 329 - I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works...
Página 97 - ... for each of the company must contribute something. The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation ; on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them.
Página 299 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Página 329 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Página 329 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first week my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus if in the first week I could keep my first line marked T clear of spots, I...