The Old Bachelor ...Printed at the Enquirer Press, for Thomas Ritchie & Fielding Lucas, 1814 - 235 páginas |
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... woman or other but as in every case the lady was both judge and party , I fared as it might have been ex- pected ; I lost my suit . Nor let my ill success be ascribed to any fickless or petulance on my part ; for I never changed tobject ...
... woman or other but as in every case the lady was both judge and party , I fared as it might have been ex- pected ; I lost my suit . Nor let my ill success be ascribed to any fickless or petulance on my part ; for I never changed tobject ...
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... woman . Indeed , it is to this excess of feeling and the officious , awkward and fa- tiguing anxiety of manners which ... women . The reader may not be displeased with a sketch of my life ; he has , indeed , a right to know the man who ...
... woman . Indeed , it is to this excess of feeling and the officious , awkward and fa- tiguing anxiety of manners which ... women . The reader may not be displeased with a sketch of my life ; he has , indeed , a right to know the man who ...
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... women so often repeated the solemn in- junction " take care of my children " and I as often and as solemnly promised it - this crag seemed as if dropped from the heavens to enable me to fulfil my engagement.- The reader has already been ...
... women so often repeated the solemn in- junction " take care of my children " and I as often and as solemnly promised it - this crag seemed as if dropped from the heavens to enable me to fulfil my engagement.- The reader has already been ...
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... women of this description in the circle of my acquaintance : persons , whose misfortune it is to be re- leased from the salutary necessity of supporting them- selves by their own exertions , and who vainly seek happi- ness in ...
... women of this description in the circle of my acquaintance : persons , whose misfortune it is to be re- leased from the salutary necessity of supporting them- selves by their own exertions , and who vainly seek happi- ness in ...
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... women ; or that if I think of them at all , it would be only to return the indifference and aversion which I have experienced at their hands . Yet . nothing would be more erroneous than such a supposition . It is true , that , with all ...
... women ; or that if I think of them at all , it would be only to return the indifference and aversion which I have experienced at their hands . Yet . nothing would be more erroneous than such a supposition . It is true , that , with all ...
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Página 205 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 119 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation must be vain, must be fatal.
Página 106 - There was no ambition of eloquence, no effort to shine, in anything which came from him. There was nothing which made any demand either upon your allegiance or your admiration. His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch ; and his plainness and simplicity put you, at once, at your ease, and gave you the full...
Página 119 - I must declare and avow, that, in the master. states of the world, I know not the people'* nor the senate, who in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to the Delegates of America, assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia.
Página 107 - ... or your admiration. His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch; and his plainness and simplicity put you at once at your ease, and gave you the full and free possession and use of all your faculties. His thoughts were of a character to shine by their own light, without any adventitious aid. They required only a medium of vision like his pure and simple style to exhibit, to the highest advantage, their native radiance and beauty. His cheerfulness...
Página 16 - If I attack the vicious, I shall only set upon them in a body ; and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive from others, to make an example of any particular criminal.
Página 89 - I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after ; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Página 64 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold : For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage...
Página 106 - Great as he was, both as a statesman and a philosopher, he never shone in a light more winning than when he was seen in a domestic circle. It was once my good fortune to pass two or three weeks with him, at the house of a private gentleman...