Select British Classics, Volumen12J. Conrad, 1803 |
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... comes to in his debtor's honour , liberty , and fortune . One would think he did not know , that his creditor can ... come within general considerations ; for one such case as one of these , there are ten , where a man , to keep up a ...
... comes to in his debtor's honour , liberty , and fortune . One would think he did not know , that his creditor can ... come within general considerations ; for one such case as one of these , there are ten , where a man , to keep up a ...
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... comes into it , and scorns to have an estate in partnership , that is to say , liable to the demand or insult of any man living . There is my friend Sir Andrew , though for many years a great and general trader , was never the defendant ...
... comes into it , and scorns to have an estate in partnership , that is to say , liable to the demand or insult of any man living . There is my friend Sir Andrew , though for many years a great and general trader , was never the defendant ...
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... come not , oh excellent prince , to implore your pardon ; I come to relate my sorrow , a sorrow too great for human life to support : from henceforth shall all occurrences appear dreams or short intervals of amusement , from this one ...
... come not , oh excellent prince , to implore your pardon ; I come to relate my sorrow , a sorrow too great for human life to support : from henceforth shall all occurrences appear dreams or short intervals of amusement , from this one ...
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... come ? Let him hear from me , what they feel who have given death by the false mercy of his administration , and form to himself the vengeance called for by those who have perished by his negligence . " R. No. LXXXV . THURSDAY , JUNE 7 ...
... come ? Let him hear from me , what they feel who have given death by the false mercy of his administration , and form to himself the vengeance called for by those who have perished by his negligence . " R. No. LXXXV . THURSDAY , JUNE 7 ...
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... comes in my way , under whatsoever despicable circum- stances it may appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and vicissitude of things , knows to what use his works may , some time or other be applied , a man may often ...
... comes in my way , under whatsoever despicable circum- stances it may appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and vicissitude of things , knows to what use his works may , some time or other be applied , a man may often ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admiration agreeable appear beauty behaviour body character Constantia conversation creature daugh death discourse dress DRYDEN endeavour entertain Eudoxus eyes fair sex father favour fortune friend Sir Roger genius gentleman give Glaphyra greatest happy hear heard heart honest honour hope human humble servant humour Hyde-park imagination impertinent kind lady Laertes learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage master mind nature never night obliged observe occasion ordinary OVID paper particular pass passion person Pharamond Phocion Pindar Plato platonic love pleased pleasure present proper racter reader reason ribaldry sense shew sorrow soul speak SPECTATOR tell temper thee Theodosius thing thou thought tion told Tom Short town Uranius VIRG Virgil virtue walking whig whole woman women words young youth
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Página 326 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life : consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about a hundred.
Página 324 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Página 108 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves. This humanity and good nature engages everybody to him; so...
Página 173 - 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 109 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom. I have just now mentioned? and without staying for my answer told me, that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at 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. 'My friend...
Página 342 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land; In the first rank of these did Zimri stand, A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon...
Página 133 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then inquires how such a one's wife, or mother, or son, or father do, whom he does not see at church, which is understood as a secret reprimand to the person that is absent.
Página 130 - It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance and superiority in the scale of being ; but he knows that, how high soever the station is of which he stands possessed at present, the inferior nature will at length mount up to it, and shine forth in the same degree of glory.
Página 110 - Sir Roger was going on in his story, the gentleman we were talking of came up to us ; and, upon the knight's asking him who preached to-morrow (for it was Saturday night), told us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr.
Página 132 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.