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... figures , and show so much concern for them as to give them all the additional force they were able , it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations , for no reason in the ...
... figures , and show so much concern for them as to give them all the additional force they were able , it is not possible that nonsense should have so many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations , for no reason in the ...
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... figure could possibly ascend it . On a sudden there was heard from the top of it a sound like that of a trumpet ; but so exceeding sweet and harmonious , that it filled the hearts of those who heard it with raptures , and gave such high ...
... figure could possibly ascend it . On a sudden there was heard from the top of it a sound like that of a trumpet ; but so exceeding sweet and harmonious , that it filled the hearts of those who heard it with raptures , and gave such high ...
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... Socrates ; but you forget that you have likewise been a very great harlot in your time . This exclusion made way for Archimedes , who came forward with a scheme of of mathematical figures in his hand ; among which I 20 SELECTIONS FROM.
... Socrates ; but you forget that you have likewise been a very great harlot in your time . This exclusion made way for Archimedes , who came forward with a scheme of of mathematical figures in his hand ; among which I 20 SELECTIONS FROM.
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... figures which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle . The first table was al- most full : at the upper end sat Hercules leaning an arm upon his club on his right hand were Achilles and Ulysses , and between them Æneas ; on his left ...
... figures which I wanted both time and skill to unriddle . The first table was al- most full : at the upper end sat Hercules leaning an arm upon his club on his right hand were Achilles and Ulysses , and between them Æneas ; on his left ...
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... figure my own dimensions ; for I scorn to rob any man of his life by taking advantage of his breadth : therefore I press purely in a line down from his nose , and take no more of him to assault than he has of me : for , to speak ...
... figure my own dimensions ; for I scorn to rob any man of his life by taking advantage of his breadth : therefore I press purely in a line down from his nose , and take no more of him to assault than he has of me : for , to speak ...
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Página 202 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation...
Página 204 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Página 206 - The court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but notwithstanding all the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room for the old knight at the head of them; who, for his reputation in the country, took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear, that he was glad his lordship had met with so much good weather in his circuit.
Página 203 - ... the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of backgammon.
Página 204 - With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhausted sources of perfection ? We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart of man to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for him. The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it*: and can there be a thought...
Página 206 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion. This authority of the knight, though exerted in that odd manner which accompanies him in all...
Página 206 - Such-a-one, if he pleased, might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river. My friend Sir Roger heard them both, upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that much might be said on both sides.
Página 69 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 202 - This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people...
Página 202 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.