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Juvenal. XB 8.23 Juv [ Sat ] THE SATIRES OF DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS , TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
Juvenal. XB 8.23 Juv [ Sat ] THE SATIRES OF DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS , TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.
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Juvenal. well as with the manners and customs of the age in which he wrote , will not be discovered with equal facility . What other times may produce , they must appreciate but , to adopt the language of an approved scholar , " Ultimus ...
Juvenal. well as with the manners and customs of the age in which he wrote , will not be discovered with equal facility . What other times may produce , they must appreciate but , to adopt the language of an approved scholar , " Ultimus ...
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Juvenal. Hugh Smerdon , ) to learn to read , and write and cipher . Here I continued about three years , mak- ing a most wretched progress , when my father fell sick and died . He had not acquired wisdom from his misfortunes , but ...
Juvenal. Hugh Smerdon , ) to learn to read , and write and cipher . Here I continued about three years , mak- ing a most wretched progress , when my father fell sick and died . He had not acquired wisdom from his misfortunes , but ...
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Juvenal. grave . She was an excellent woman , bore my fa ther's infirmities with patience and good humour , loved her children dearly , and died at last , ex- hausted with anxiety and grief more on their account than on her own . I was ...
Juvenal. grave . She was an excellent woman , bore my fa ther's infirmities with patience and good humour , loved her children dearly , and died at last , ex- hausted with anxiety and grief more on their account than on her own . I was ...
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Juvenal. trips to Dartmouth , Plymouth , & c . it consisted only of my master , an apprentice nearly out of his time , and myself : when we had to go further , to Portsmouth for example , an additional hand was hired for the voyage . In ...
Juvenal. trips to Dartmouth , Plymouth , & c . it consisted only of my master , an apprentice nearly out of his time , and myself : when we had to go further , to Portsmouth for example , an additional hand was hired for the voyage . In ...
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Page 326 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 394 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 423 - If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry...
Page 20 - As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.
Page 230 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Page 229 - I, that spend half my nights and all my days Here, in a cell, to get a dark, pale face, To come forth worth the ivy or the bays, And in this age can hope no other grace Leave me ! There's something come into my thought That must and shall be sung, high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof.
Page 18 - tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, — Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd, — They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page xii - Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equation, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Page 207 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page xi - As I hated my new profession with a perfect hatred, I made no progress in it ; and was consequently little regarded in the family, of which I sunk by degrees into the common drudge : this did not much disquiet me, for my spirits were now humbled.