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... carry the humour so far , until their affected coldness and indifference quite kills all the fondness of a lover , and are then sure to meet in their turn with all the contempt and scorn that is due to so insolent a behaviour . On the ...
... carry the humour so far , until their affected coldness and indifference quite kills all the fondness of a lover , and are then sure to meet in their turn with all the contempt and scorn that is due to so insolent a behaviour . On the ...
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... carried away by mere beauty , or mere wit , Ommamante , with all her vice , will bear away as much of our good - will as the most innocent virgin or discreetest matron ; and there cannot be a more abject slavery in this world than to ...
... carried away by mere beauty , or mere wit , Ommamante , with all her vice , will bear away as much of our good - will as the most innocent virgin or discreetest matron ; and there cannot be a more abject slavery in this world than to ...
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... carry , ten stone weight , if fourteen hands high ; if above or under to carry or be allowed weight for inches , and to be entered Friday the fifteenth at the Swan in Coleshill , before six in the evening . Also a plate of less value to ...
... carry , ten stone weight , if fourteen hands high ; if above or under to carry or be allowed weight for inches , and to be entered Friday the fifteenth at the Swan in Coleshill , before six in the evening . Also a plate of less value to ...
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... carry for its posy the old motto inverted , Detur tetriori . Or to accommodate it to the capacity of the com- batants , The frightfull'st grinner Be the winner . In the mean while I would advise a Dutch painter to be present at this ...
... carry for its posy the old motto inverted , Detur tetriori . Or to accommodate it to the capacity of the com- batants , The frightfull'st grinner Be the winner . In the mean while I would advise a Dutch painter to be present at this ...
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... carry away the honour of the day ; but upon a farther trial they found he was master only of the merry grin . The next that mounted the table was a malcontent in those days , and a great master in the whole art of grinning , but ...
... carry away the honour of the day ; but upon a farther trial they found he was master only of the merry grin . The next that mounted the table was a malcontent in those days , and a great master in the whole art of grinning , but ...
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Page 35 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 343 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 35 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 242 - Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life : cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interest and welfare.
Page 35 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; (What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb make him ? and did not One fashion us in the womb...
Page 343 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 36 - If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him : 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Page 112 - Cornaro, who was the author of the little treatise I am mentioning, was of an infirm constitution, till about forty, when by obstinately persisting in an exact course of temperance, he recovered a perfect state of health ; insomuch that at fourscore he published his book, which has been translated into English under the title of ' Sure and certain Methods of attaining a long and healthy Life.
Page 240 - ... such a manner, that if he became his enemy, it should not be in his power to hurt him. The first part of this rule, which regards our behaviour towards an enemy, is indeed very reasonable, as well as very prudential ; but the latter part of it, which regards our behaviour towards a friend, savours...
Page 228 - Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ With something new to wish or to enjoy...