English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... Lady George Saintsbury 503 506 508 Mackenzie on Burns · 510 HANNAH MORE Reginald Brimley Johnson 513 Profession and Practice 515 A Religious Family 517 The Marriage Market . 519 A Natural Philosopher 520 A Plain Man on his Daughter's ...
... Lady George Saintsbury 503 506 508 Mackenzie on Burns · 510 HANNAH MORE Reginald Brimley Johnson 513 Profession and Practice 515 A Religious Family 517 The Marriage Market . 519 A Natural Philosopher 520 A Plain Man on his Daughter's ...
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... lady , in marriage to Pompey : and , from this era , all the Roman writers date the origin of the civil wars which afterwards ensued , and the subversion of the Republic , in which they ended . tu causa malorum Facta tribus dominis ...
... lady , in marriage to Pompey : and , from this era , all the Roman writers date the origin of the civil wars which afterwards ensued , and the subversion of the Republic , in which they ended . tu causa malorum Facta tribus dominis ...
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... ladies are ruined by play , without considering that what one man loses another gets , and that consequently as many are made as ruined : money changeth hands , and in this circulation the life of business and commerce consists . When ...
... ladies are ruined by play , without considering that what one man loses another gets , and that consequently as many are made as ruined : money changeth hands , and in this circulation the life of business and commerce consists . When ...
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... ladies , Miss Hester Gibbon , a sister of his pupil , and Mrs. Hutchison , widow of an M. P. , joined him for the sake of his spiritual direction ; and the " Hall Yard " ( the name of Law's residence ) became the centre of an ...
... ladies , Miss Hester Gibbon , a sister of his pupil , and Mrs. Hutchison , widow of an M. P. , joined him for the sake of his spiritual direction ; and the " Hall Yard " ( the name of Law's residence ) became the centre of an ...
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... Lady ( 1749 ) ; and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ) . ] THE conscious and ostentatiously avowed end of Richardson's writings was moral edification ; and doubtless much of what he wrote can serve no other . In Pamela he ...
... Lady ( 1749 ) ; and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ) . ] THE conscious and ostentatiously avowed end of Richardson's writings was moral edification ; and doubtless much of what he wrote can serve no other . In Pamela he ...
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Page 503 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 456 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 190 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 50 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 190 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Page 59 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Page 385 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Page 590 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Page 371 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Page 82 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.