Peace Campaigns of a Cornet. ...

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J. & J. Harper, 1829

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Page 137 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 112 - But meat commendeth us not to God : for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
Page 113 - And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, becau.se he eateth not of faith : for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Page 81 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Page 108 - O'er Bodley's dome his future labours spread, ... And Bacon's mansion trembles o'er his head. Are these thy views? Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge...
Page 119 - Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more : Despairing quacks with curses fled the place, And vile attorneys, now a useless race.
Page 3 - He felt that chilling heaviness of heart, Or rather stomach, which, alas! attends, Beyond the best apothecary's art, The loss of Love, the treachery of friends, Or death of those we dote on, when a part Of us dies with them as each fond hope ends: No doubt he would have been much more pathetic, But the sea acted as a strong emetic.
Page 9 - O Memory ! thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain...
Page 105 - If a straight line falling on two straight lines make the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite angle on the same side, or the interior angles on the same side equal to two right angles, the straight lines will be parallel to one another.
Page 98 - Hank in the Service. Every Candidate will have to undergo an Examination previously to Admission. The Examination will be chiefly in the Elements of Geometry ; but if deemed necessary, it will be extended to other elementary parts of Education requisite to qualify him for making progress in the branches of Instruction taught at the College...

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