Hogg's Instructor, Volumes 3-4James Hogg, 1849 |
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... thing , And it was hard to part with him— Parental eyes will oft grow dim , His infant smile remembering . Verdantly ... things touch most nearly the tender sympathies . A parent , mourning the loss of a beloved child , we must conceive ...
... thing , And it was hard to part with him— Parental eyes will oft grow dim , His infant smile remembering . Verdantly ... things touch most nearly the tender sympathies . A parent , mourning the loss of a beloved child , we must conceive ...
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... things . Dr Chalmers , indeed , says that truth is too sacred a thing to be sported with ; but surely it is not too sacred to be sought after : and while it is the glory of truth ever to retire before us like the horizon , or the ...
... things . Dr Chalmers , indeed , says that truth is too sacred a thing to be sported with ; but surely it is not too sacred to be sought after : and while it is the glory of truth ever to retire before us like the horizon , or the ...
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... thing so beautiful . It might teach others to prize that book some- what more for its literature , which they had all ... things . But , meanwhile , there are still many who , with a more sanguine eye than ours , expect the human teacher ...
... thing so beautiful . It might teach others to prize that book some- what more for its literature , which they had all ... things . But , meanwhile , there are still many who , with a more sanguine eye than ours , expect the human teacher ...
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... things deemed honourable obtained from scattered anecdote and casual notice . When Lord Shaftesbury , being high chancellor , informed his royal patron in full levee that , for a subject , he believed himself the most profligate man in ...
... things deemed honourable obtained from scattered anecdote and casual notice . When Lord Shaftesbury , being high chancellor , informed his royal patron in full levee that , for a subject , he believed himself the most profligate man in ...
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... things , and fall out of royal favour , carrying with him only the hatred of the multitude and a broken repu- tation , over which partisans have ever since disputed . The story of Clarendon's fall affords an example of the doings of ...
... things , and fall out of royal favour , carrying with him only the hatred of the multitude and a broken repu- tation , over which partisans have ever since disputed . The story of Clarendon's fall affords an example of the doings of ...
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Page 12 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 61 - I was not surprised that the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition. It required no stretch of imagination to conjure up the most strange fancies. This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well have belonged to one of those fearful beings which are pictured in the traditions of the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below.
Page 61 - Bey," exclaimed one of them — " hasten to the diggers, for they have found Nimrod himself. Wallah, it is wonderful, but it is true ! we have seen him with our eyes. There is no God but God ;" and both joining in this pious exclamation, they galloped oft', without further words, in the direction of their tents.
Page 61 - It was some time before the Sheikh could be prevailed upon to descend into the pit, and convince himself that the image he saw was of stone. "This is not the work of men's hands," exclaimed he, "but of those infidel giants of whom the Prophet, peace be with him!
Page 171 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Page 18 - James's Park where fops congregated, their heads and shoulders covered with black or flaxen wigs, not less ample than those which are now worn by the Chancellor and by the Speaker of the House of Commons. The wig came from Paris; and so did the rest of the fine gentleman's ornaments, his embroidered coat, his fringed gloves, and the tassel which upheld his pantaloons.
Page 18 - But men of all parties missed their usual places of resort so much that there was a universal outcry. The Government did not venture, in opposition to a feeling so strong and general, to enforce a regulation of which the legality might well be questioned. Since that time ten years had elapsed, and during those years the number and influence of the coffee-houses had been constantly increasing.
Page 232 - Addison, Congreve, and Garth, were there at the reading. In four or five places, Lord Halifax stopped me very civilly, and with a speech each time of much the same kind, ' I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope : but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me. Be so good as to mark the place, and consider it a little at your leisure. I am sure you can give it a little turn.
Page 86 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is, that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old.
Page 86 - The common people of that age were not in the habit of meeting for public discussion, of haranguing, or of petitioning Parliament. No newspaper pleaded their cause. It was in rude rhyme that their love and hatred, their exultation and their distress found utterance. A great part of their history is to be learned only from their ballads.