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... France , would that enemy have and rival commanders in a cloud , but it treated him with the long continued and could not blind the clear - fighted at home , cruel rigor he received at their hands ? who were able to difcover an abfolute ...
... France , would that enemy have and rival commanders in a cloud , but it treated him with the long continued and could not blind the clear - fighted at home , cruel rigor he received at their hands ? who were able to difcover an abfolute ...
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... France , he determined army , with great flaughter , and faved the on writing the hiftory of the expedition ; emperor from being taken prifoner . Co- copies of which , when published , he de- lonel Wilfon had , alfo , the command of ...
... France , he determined army , with great flaughter , and faved the on writing the hiftory of the expedition ; emperor from being taken prifoner . Co- copies of which , when published , he de- lonel Wilfon had , alfo , the command of ...
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... France , is the attention of the reader conftantly and fatisfactorily engaged . The moral and phyfical ftate of Egypt , as he lays it down , proves that he is not inca- pable of the higher and more effential parts of hiftory . The ...
... France , is the attention of the reader conftantly and fatisfactorily engaged . The moral and phyfical ftate of Egypt , as he lays it down , proves that he is not inca- pable of the higher and more effential parts of hiftory . The ...
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... France and Ame- expence , could have produced the rica , riches , on its paper wings , will effect upon corn that we have feen , flee away , and they will no longer be without the afliftance of another en- feen or regarded . gine ...
... France and Ame- expence , could have produced the rica , riches , on its paper wings , will effect upon corn that we have feen , flee away , and they will no longer be without the afliftance of another en- feen or regarded . gine ...
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... France to avenge injuries done to a duke of Or- leans . " Diogenes , ONCE , when difcourfing of virtue , obferved that nobody gave attention ; when every one crowded to hear him . upon which he fuddenly fell a finging , " Great gods ...
... France to avenge injuries done to a duke of Or- leans . " Diogenes , ONCE , when difcourfing of virtue , obferved that nobody gave attention ; when every one crowded to hear him . upon which he fuddenly fell a finging , " Great gods ...
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Page 352 - But though vers'd in th' extremes both of Pleasure and Pain, I am still but too ready to feel them again. If then for this once in my Life I am free, And escape from a Snare might catch wiser than me, Tis that Beauty alone but imperfectly charms, For though Brightness may dazzle, 'tis Kindness that warms. As on Suns in the Winter with Pleasure we gaze, But feel not their force, though their Splendour we praise ; So Beauty our just Admiration may claim, But Love, and Love only, our Hearts can inflame.
Page 352 - Is't reason ? No : that my whole life will belie, For who so at variance as reason and I ? Is't ambition that fills up each chink of my heart, Nor allows any softer sensation a part ? Oh no ! for in this all the world must agree, One folly was never sufficient for me.
Page 352 - I've felt each reverse that from fortune can flow. That I've tasted each bliss that the happiest know, Has still been the whimsical fate of my life, Where anguish and joy have been evtr at strife. But, though vers'd in th' extremes both of pleasure and pain, I am still but too ready to feel them again.
Page 197 - SIR, — His Majesty has thought proper to order a new commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not perceive your name.
Page 275 - ... Lord Teignmouth, President of the British and Foreign Bible Society, occasioned by his address to the clergy of the Church of England, by a Country Clergyman [the Eev.
Page 352 - I've tasted each bliss that the happiest know, Has still been the whimsical fate of my life, Where anguish and joy have been ever at strife. But, tho' vers'd in th' extremes both of pleasure and pain, I am still but too ready to feel them again. If then, for this once in my life, I am free, And escape from a snare might catch wiser than me, 'Tis that beauty alone but imperfectly charms, For, though brightness may dazzle, 'tis kindness that warms.
Page 527 - The picture, in water colours, of Boys with the Insignia of Riches. The Companion with Boys, and the Insignia of the Fine Arts.— All painted for the Marble Gallery in Windsor Castle. Designs, from -which the Ceiling in the Queen's Lodge was done; all 3 feet 6y 4.
Page 370 - Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. The whole now first collected and revised; to which are prefixed his Life and Death, by Bishop Burnett, DD and an Appendix -to the Life, including the additional Notes of Richard Baxter, by the Rev.
Page 229 - Author of our being as the reward of virtue, and the solace of care ; but the base and sordid forms of artificial (which I oppose to natural) society, in which we live, have encircled that heavenly rose with so many thorns, that the wealthy alone can gather it with prudence. On the other hand, mere pleasure, to which the idle are not justly entitled, soon satiates, and leaves a vacuity in the mind more unpleasant than actual pain.