The British Essayists: GuardianJ. Haddon, 1819 |
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... say , consider ? And may your lordship be excused from all reflection ? Eternal contumely attend that guilty title which claims exemption from thought , and arrogates to its wearers the prerogative of brutes . Ever cursed be its false ...
... say , consider ? And may your lordship be excused from all reflection ? Eternal contumely attend that guilty title which claims exemption from thought , and arrogates to its wearers the prerogative of brutes . Ever cursed be its false ...
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... say , there has not been a tiger , leopard , elephant , or hyghgeen * , for some years past , in this nation , but I have taken their particular dimensions , and am able to give a very good description of them . But I must own , I never ...
... say , there has not been a tiger , leopard , elephant , or hyghgeen * , for some years past , in this nation , but I have taken their particular dimensions , and am able to give a very good description of them . But I must own , I never ...
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... of philosophy and religion ; our Lord's peculiar precept is , Love thy neighbour as thyself . By this shall all men know that you are my disciples , if ye love one another . ' I will not say , that what is a most 18 N ° 126 . GUARDIAN .
... of philosophy and religion ; our Lord's peculiar precept is , Love thy neighbour as thyself . By this shall all men know that you are my disciples , if ye love one another . ' I will not say , that what is a most 18 N ° 126 . GUARDIAN .
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... say they , there is no mention made in the Gospel of the virtue of friendship . These sa- gacious men ( if I might be allowed the use of that vulgar saying ) cannot see the wood for trees . ' That a religion , whereof the main drift is ...
... say they , there is no mention made in the Gospel of the virtue of friendship . These sa- gacious men ( if I might be allowed the use of that vulgar saying ) cannot see the wood for trees . ' That a religion , whereof the main drift is ...
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... says the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke made to him , ' that her Majesty did not think to make any alteration in the dreadful sentence she had pronounced against the Mr. Ironside , I think you would do an act worthy your general humanity ...
... says the Lord Viscount Bolingbroke made to him , ' that her Majesty did not think to make any alteration in the dreadful sentence she had pronounced against the Mr. Ironside , I think you would do an act worthy your general humanity ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 232 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 232 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 80 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Página 232 - Strength and honour are her clothing ; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 45 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time ; thence hurried back to, fire.
Página 197 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue, where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.
Página 232 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it : with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Página 233 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 43 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 49 - Structure more plainly. Sickness is a sort of early old Age; it teaches us a Diffidence in our Earthly State, and inspires us with the Thoughts of a future, better than a thousand Volumes of Philosophers and Divines. It gives so warning a Concussion to those Props of our Vanity, our Strength and Youth, that we think of fortifying our selves within, when there is so little dependance on our Outworks.