The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 1J. Cumberland, 1826 |
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... appeared . It has been the fruit , not of extensive research merely , but of an extensive intercourse with the world , attended with oppor- tunities for the collection of original anecdote , not perhaps rare , but certainly very rarely ...
... appeared . It has been the fruit , not of extensive research merely , but of an extensive intercourse with the world , attended with oppor- tunities for the collection of original anecdote , not perhaps rare , but certainly very rarely ...
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... appeared to demand justice . They decreed that the knight whom he had served in his youth , should feed him in his old age --- a sentence which the king confirmed under a heavy penalty . MAGNANIMOUS REPROOF . The Emperor Joseph II ...
... appeared to demand justice . They decreed that the knight whom he had served in his youth , should feed him in his old age --- a sentence which the king confirmed under a heavy penalty . MAGNANIMOUS REPROOF . The Emperor Joseph II ...
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... appeared . The pirates refused to take less than the sum demanded . Haller offered himself as a hostage instead of his friend , if they would pro- long his life , and suffer him to recover from his sick- ness . This noble deed ...
... appeared . The pirates refused to take less than the sum demanded . Haller offered himself as a hostage instead of his friend , if they would pro- long his life , and suffer him to recover from his sick- ness . This noble deed ...
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... appearance of a man of honour ; you are going to Brussels , where you will see M. de Lavalette ; deliver him these two hundred Louis d'ors , which I owe him , and which he is no doubt in want of ; " and without waiting for an answer ...
... appearance of a man of honour ; you are going to Brussels , where you will see M. de Lavalette ; deliver him these two hundred Louis d'ors , which I owe him , and which he is no doubt in want of ; " and without waiting for an answer ...
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... appearance pleased him , and treated him in the same manner as he had done the other object of his patronage . During the whole of his royal highness's voyages abroad , these two little fortunates received from him all the attention of ...
... appearance pleased him , and treated him in the same manner as he had done the other object of his patronage . During the whole of his royal highness's voyages abroad , these two little fortunates received from him all the attention of ...
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Page 125 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Page 114 - ... temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Page 109 - A Macedonian, whose lands were contiguous to the sea, came opportunely to be witness of his distress ; and, with all humane and charitable tenderness, flew to the relief of the unhappy stranger. He bore him to his house, laid him in his...
Page 62 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 132 - Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick? The Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives.
Page 119 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Page 157 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 156 - To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 114 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 114 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts...