The British Essayists: ObserverC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... hope now remained for moderate measures , when the people's representa tives should again assemble ? In this fatal moment the fuel was prepared and the match lighted , to give life to the flames of civil war ; already Scot- land had set ...
... hope now remained for moderate measures , when the people's representa tives should again assemble ? In this fatal moment the fuel was prepared and the match lighted , to give life to the flames of civil war ; already Scot- land had set ...
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... hope a little plain Eng- lish without the help of Sotades , will serve to open the eyes of a plain Englishman , and prevent him from strutting about the world merely to make sport for his neighbours ; for I declare in truth , that so ...
... hope a little plain Eng- lish without the help of Sotades , will serve to open the eyes of a plain Englishman , and prevent him from strutting about the world merely to make sport for his neighbours ; for I declare in truth , that so ...
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... hope it would be sufficient , is to take down his Bible from the shelf , and look out for the parable of the Pharisee and Publican ; it is a short story , and soon read , but the moral is so much to his purpose , that he may depend upon ...
... hope it would be sufficient , is to take down his Bible from the shelf , and look out for the parable of the Pharisee and Publican ; it is a short story , and soon read , but the moral is so much to his purpose , that he may depend upon ...
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... hope administers a cordial even in our last moments , that lulls the agonies of death . But where is the need of these , had this discovery been established ? Why call in physicians , and resort to cordials , if we can hold danger at a ...
... hope administers a cordial even in our last moments , that lulls the agonies of death . But where is the need of these , had this discovery been established ? Why call in physicians , and resort to cordials , if we can hold danger at a ...
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... hope of evading death , or there is something in a life of dissipation not worth preserving . I am astonished at the stupidity of any man , who can deny himself the gratification of conscious integrity . The proud man must be a ...
... hope of evading death , or there is something in a life of dissipation not worth preserving . I am astonished at the stupidity of any man , who can deny himself the gratification of conscious integrity . The proud man must be a ...
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Página 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Página 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Página 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Página 93 - Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments ; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou.
Página 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Página 88 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Página 124 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Página 168 - But will arise, and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his worshippers.
Página 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.