The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected and Digested Under Alphabetical Heads, Volume 2J. Bumstead, 1801 - English imprints |
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... Several French battalions , whom fome fay were a corps de reserve , made a fhew of refiftance ; but it only proved a gaf- conade , for upon our preparing to fill up a little foffe , in order to attack them , they beat the chamade , and ...
... Several French battalions , whom fome fay were a corps de reserve , made a fhew of refiftance ; but it only proved a gaf- conade , for upon our preparing to fill up a little foffe , in order to attack them , they beat the chamade , and ...
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... several perfons on trap - doors which did not feem to lie in their way , and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced up- on them . " The genius feeing me indulge myself in this me- lancholy profpect , told me I had ...
... several perfons on trap - doors which did not feem to lie in their way , and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced up- on them . " The genius feeing me indulge myself in this me- lancholy profpect , told me I had ...
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... Several would prefer the number 12000 before any other , at it is the number of the pounds in the great prize . In fhort , fome are pleased to find their own age in their number ; fome that they have got a num- ber which makes a pretty ...
... Several would prefer the number 12000 before any other , at it is the number of the pounds in the great prize . In fhort , fome are pleased to find their own age in their number ; fome that they have got a num- ber which makes a pretty ...
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... Several of the com- mon feamen , who had never heard the word before , thought it had been fome strange fifh ; but they were more furprifed when they faw it was a man , and heard out of his own mouth , that he never believed till that ...
... Several of the com- mon feamen , who had never heard the word before , thought it had been fome strange fifh ; but they were more furprifed when they faw it was a man , and heard out of his own mouth , that he never believed till that ...
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... Several letters which I have lately received , give me information , that fome well - difpofed perfons have ta- ken offence at my ufing the word free - thinker as a term of reproach . To fet therefore this matter in a clear light , I ...
... Several letters which I have lately received , give me information , that fome well - difpofed perfons have ta- ken offence at my ufing the word free - thinker as a term of reproach . To fet therefore this matter in a clear light , I ...
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Page 32 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Page 233 - And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honour, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
Page 146 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 218 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Page 122 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 232 - Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
Page 338 - Dutch, whom we are apt to despise for want of genius, show an infinitely greater taste of antiquity and politeness in their buildings and works of this nature, than what we meet with in those of our own country.
Page 34 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Page 219 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 35 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.