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... persons in general , the women are rather below than above the middle stature , but graceful and beautiful . No females are less studious of enhancing their attractions by artificial means , or counterfeiting , by paltry arts , the ...
... persons in general , the women are rather below than above the middle stature , but graceful and beautiful . No females are less studious of enhancing their attractions by artificial means , or counterfeiting , by paltry arts , the ...
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... persons display proper degree of symmetry , yet they are obviously stouter than the women of South - England , and ... person is wrapped in a long blue cloak , which descends below the knee . Except when particularly dressed , they go ...
... persons display proper degree of symmetry , yet they are obviously stouter than the women of South - England , and ... person is wrapped in a long blue cloak , which descends below the knee . Except when particularly dressed , they go ...
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... persons even of moderate taste and moderate information . The story of Nisus and Uryalus , Homer's description of Ajax at the defeat of the Greeks , or of Achilles arming himself for battle , are admired as often as they are read : but ...
... persons even of moderate taste and moderate information . The story of Nisus and Uryalus , Homer's description of Ajax at the defeat of the Greeks , or of Achilles arming himself for battle , are admired as often as they are read : but ...
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... persons . It has often struck us forcibly , in collecting and compiling these humble memoirs , and we think it can hardly fail to make a similar impression on our readers , that a majority of the persons here recorded have in early life ...
... persons . It has often struck us forcibly , in collecting and compiling these humble memoirs , and we think it can hardly fail to make a similar impression on our readers , that a majority of the persons here recorded have in early life ...
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... persons , already , well skilled in the languages , to ascertain the genuine readings and true sense of the original , by comparing the versions made ' from it , -in such a work , all the texts both of the originals . and the versions ...
... persons , already , well skilled in the languages , to ascertain the genuine readings and true sense of the original , by comparing the versions made ' from it , -in such a work , all the texts both of the originals . and the versions ...
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Página 391 - So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th...
Página 70 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade, There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Página 419 - It is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Página 474 - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned...
Página 389 - He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.
Página 153 - Accordingly, no geometrical proposition, as, for instance, that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side, can ever be derived from the general conceptions of line and triangle, but only from perception.
Página 407 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 287 - ... and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.
Página 39 - ... chopped logic; for he has a violent affection to that art, being in some sort his own invention; so that he often loses himself in little trifling distinctions and verbal niceties, and what is worse, leaves you to extricate yourself as you can.
Página 124 - Learn from yon orient shell to love thy foe, And store with pearls the hand that brings thee woe : Free, like yon rock, from base vindictive pride, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side : Mark where yon tree rewards the stony shower With fruit nectareous, or the balmy flower : All Nature calls aloud — " Shall man do less Than heal the smiter, and the railer bless ?