New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 5C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 |
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... standing sen- try , in my watch tower at the Tow- er of London , this 13th of August , 1647 . That neither loves baseness nor fears greatness . The paper which was enclosed in the above letter was 72 P. IX . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
... standing sen- try , in my watch tower at the Tow- er of London , this 13th of August , 1647 . That neither loves baseness nor fears greatness . The paper which was enclosed in the above letter was 72 P. IX . ELEGANT EXTRACTS .
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... London , who , it is said , have nominated Robert Spavin , the lieutenant - general's man , their chief favourite , to be the master of the armoury , in the place of Mr. Anthony Nicholls , one of the eleven im- peached members ; so that ...
... London , who , it is said , have nominated Robert Spavin , the lieutenant - general's man , their chief favourite , to be the master of the armoury , in the place of Mr. Anthony Nicholls , one of the eleven im- peached members ; so that ...
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... London , with ballads on the Rump ; and Hewson's Lamentations ; and the lord of Dorchester's name makes a greater noyse in a close alley than " kitchen stuffe , " or " work for a tinker ; " and all this by your own industry , who are ...
... London , with ballads on the Rump ; and Hewson's Lamentations ; and the lord of Dorchester's name makes a greater noyse in a close alley than " kitchen stuffe , " or " work for a tinker ; " and all this by your own industry , who are ...
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... London grows very tiresome , and I long to see you , but things are now reduced to that extremity on all sides , that a man dares not turne his back for feare of being hanged , an ill accident to be avoyded by all prudent persons , and ...
... London grows very tiresome , and I long to see you , but things are now reduced to that extremity on all sides , that a man dares not turne his back for feare of being hanged , an ill accident to be avoyded by all prudent persons , and ...
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... London and Adderbury are very tedious . If you write to me , you must direct to Lincoln's Inn Fields , the house next to the Duke's Play House , in Portugal Row ; there lives your hum- ble servant , ROCHESTER . THE EARL OF ROCHESTER TO ...
... London and Adderbury are very tedious . If you write to me , you must direct to Lincoln's Inn Fields , the house next to the Duke's Play House , in Portugal Row ; there lives your hum- ble servant , ROCHESTER . THE EARL OF ROCHESTER TO ...
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Adderbury affectionate affliction ANNA SEWARD assure believe blessing brother comfort command Cotterstock cousin DEAR SIR dearest death desire duke EARL OF ROCHESTER expect father favour fear give glad grace hand happiness hath hear heart HENRY WOTTON honour hope humble servant intended JACOB TONSON JAMES THOMSON JOHN DRYDEN JOHN LILBURNE John Paston kind king Lady letter Lichfield live London Lord Shaftesbury lordship madam majesty mean mercy mind Miss morning MOUNTNORRIS nature ness never night obliged occasion OLIVER CROMWELL opinion passions pleased pleasure poet poor pray prayers prince reason receive remember RUSSELL TO LORD SAMUEL FOOTE sent Sir William Wyndham sister soul spirit sure tell thank thee thing thou thought tion told town trouble true truly unto Virgil virtue wife wise wish word write
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Page 204 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 206 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 21 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 138 - ... any shall offend you or your people, you shall have a full and speedy satisfaction for the same by an equal number of just men on both sides, that by no means you may have just occasion of being offended against them.
Page 22 - ... government, our manner of God's worship, our praising and praying to him, and our established ceremonies, as often as their tender consciences shall require us. And, in this examination...
Page 24 - ... than sparing, but not costly. For I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. But some consume themselves through secret vices, and their hospitality bears the blame. But banish swinish drunkards out of thine house, which is a vice impairing health, consuming much, and makes no show. I never heard praise ascribed to the drunkard, but for the well-bearing of his drink ; which is a better commendation for a brewer's horse or a dray-man, than for either a gentleman or a serving-man.
Page 24 - ... thou shalt live like a rich beggar, in continual want. And the needy man can never live happily nor contentedly. For every disaster makes him ready to mortgage or sell And that gentleman, who sells an acre of land, sells an ounce of credit. For gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. So that if the foundation shall at any time sink, the building must need follow — so much for the first precept.
Page 50 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me ; which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 251 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove, nor brook, lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty. Yet with all these disadvantages to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive.
Page 252 - ... on the other end stand their pensive partners that are to be ; but no more intercourse between the sexes than there is between two countries at war. The ladies indeed may ogle, and the gentlemen sigh; but an embargo is laid on any closer commerce.