The last of the old squires; a sketch by Cedric Oldacre1854 |
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... Pleasure , And bleft him out of Measure , With Heaven and earthly Treasure , So good a God is he ! " TUSSER'S Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry . " A good and charitable Man of fuperior Rank or Wisdom , Fortune , Authority , is a ...
... Pleasure , And bleft him out of Measure , With Heaven and earthly Treasure , So good a God is he ! " TUSSER'S Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry . " A good and charitable Man of fuperior Rank or Wisdom , Fortune , Authority , is a ...
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... Pleasures and Enjoyments , and the trivial Pur- fuits of every - day Life . For if any lives to these alone , he merely fills up a Number , or is a Cipher . The Country owes him Nothing , because he brings a Scandal and a Reproach upon ...
... Pleasures and Enjoyments , and the trivial Pur- fuits of every - day Life . For if any lives to these alone , he merely fills up a Number , or is a Cipher . The Country owes him Nothing , because he brings a Scandal and a Reproach upon ...
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... Pleasure ? And this Chapter may be closed in his perti- nent and expreffive Words . " If this be true , if a Gentleman be Nothing else but this , then truly he is a fad Piece , the most inconfiderable , the most despicable , the most ...
... Pleasure ? And this Chapter may be closed in his perti- nent and expreffive Words . " If this be true , if a Gentleman be Nothing else but this , then truly he is a fad Piece , the most inconfiderable , the most despicable , the most ...
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... Pleasure , he would rap out a round Oath , -faying as quick as Lightning , " God forgive me ! " Befides this , he was eafily put out of Temper with the young Upstarts between Eighteen and Twenty , who were in a fort of Transition ...
... Pleasure , he would rap out a round Oath , -faying as quick as Lightning , " God forgive me ! " Befides this , he was eafily put out of Temper with the young Upstarts between Eighteen and Twenty , who were in a fort of Transition ...
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... Pleasures of Country - life , the OLD SQUIRES , of whom we are here speaking , rigidly expected , like NELSON , that every Man in his Pofition was to do his Duty , and if he did it not , he was reprimanded sharply . Their Rule , if ...
... Pleasures of Country - life , the OLD SQUIRES , of whom we are here speaking , rigidly expected , like NELSON , that every Man in his Pofition was to do his Duty , and if he did it not , he was reprimanded sharply . Their Rule , if ...
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Page 46 - And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers...
Page 99 - Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Page 14 - Ill fares the land, to haft'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd.
Page 3 - Are but the beings of a summer's day, Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm Of mighty war...
Page 35 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page vi - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 117 - No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
Page 99 - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Page 100 - For those of the ancienter members of her communion, who have all along owned and contended for a strict conformity to her rules and sanctions, as the surest course to establish her, have been of late represented, or rather reprobated, under the inodiating character of high churchmen, and thereby stand marked out for all the discouragement that spite and power together can pass upon them; while...
Page 99 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...