Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Volumen13,Tema 112 -Volumen15,Tema 135William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1846 |
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... object , and prompting him to go out in search of wretchedness , and to distribute over his whole neigh- bourhood the means of comfort and happiness . Such was Mr Howard in the year 1773 ; and if he had then died , his name would never ...
... object , and prompting him to go out in search of wretchedness , and to distribute over his whole neigh- bourhood the means of comfort and happiness . Such was Mr Howard in the year 1773 ; and if he had then died , his name would never ...
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... object in view , and attending exclusively to it . If we measure ability by mere largeness of intellect , there were undoubtedly hundreds of abler men than Howard then alive in England ; but what is the lazy and languid greatness of ...
... object in view , and attending exclusively to it . If we measure ability by mere largeness of intellect , there were undoubtedly hundreds of abler men than Howard then alive in England ; but what is the lazy and languid greatness of ...
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... a complica- tion of distress . " Mr Howard's philanthropic labours for now nearly a twelve- month had of course made him an object of public attention , and it became obviously desirable to have such a man in 15 LIFE OF HOWARD .
... a complica- tion of distress . " Mr Howard's philanthropic labours for now nearly a twelve- month had of course made him an object of public attention , and it became obviously desirable to have such a man in 15 LIFE OF HOWARD .
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... objects . Some are seen pining under diseases , ' sick and in prison , ' expiring on the floors , in loathsome cells , of pestilential fevers and confluent small - pox ; victims , I must not say to the cruelty , but I will say to the in ...
... objects . Some are seen pining under diseases , ' sick and in prison , ' expiring on the floors , in loathsome cells , of pestilential fevers and confluent small - pox ; victims , I must not say to the cruelty , but I will say to the in ...
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... object . " His obser- vations during this tour he published in a second edition of his work in 1780. Wishing , before the publication of a third edition , to acquire some further knowledge on the subject , he again visited Holland , and ...
... object . " His obser- vations during this tour he published in a second edition of his work in 1780. Wishing , before the publication of a third edition , to acquire some further knowledge on the subject , he again visited Holland , and ...
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Página 27 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...
Página 27 - Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the King, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world...
Página 27 - Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of — say, I taught thee, Say, Wolsey — that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 10 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Página 27 - The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds, And weak beginnings lie intreasured. Such things become the hatch and brood of time...
Página 23 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Página 27 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge...
Página 18 - Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks : Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Página 27 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 16 - Be absolute for death ; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life : — If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict.