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... feems to have been borrowed from the Romans , who had their damnati ad metalla , or criminals condemned to work in the mines . The Danes have a proverb , That a dead man is good for nothing ; and that it is much more ad- vifable to reap ...
... feems to have been borrowed from the Romans , who had their damnati ad metalla , or criminals condemned to work in the mines . The Danes have a proverb , That a dead man is good for nothing ; and that it is much more ad- vifable to reap ...
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... feems to want repair . It is a large fquare , one part plant- ed with trees , and the other covered with a hall , where the council of commerce meets . This exchange is faid to have been built at three different times , in 1558 , 1578 ...
... feems to want repair . It is a large fquare , one part plant- ed with trees , and the other covered with a hall , where the council of commerce meets . This exchange is faid to have been built at three different times , in 1558 , 1578 ...
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... feems to be in the exchange of money , which they carry on with indefati- gable affiduity . As foon as a ftranger fets up at an inn , these children of Ifrael have notice of it from the hoft , or the people of the houfe ; and they are ...
... feems to be in the exchange of money , which they carry on with indefati- gable affiduity . As foon as a ftranger fets up at an inn , these children of Ifrael have notice of it from the hoft , or the people of the houfe ; and they are ...
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... of iniquity and corruption . Hamburg abounds with diversions of differ- ent forts ; for though the inhabitants are fo eager in pursuit of trade , they are no enemies to to pleasure ; nay , the latter feems to be LETTER 63 II .
... of iniquity and corruption . Hamburg abounds with diversions of differ- ent forts ; for though the inhabitants are fo eager in pursuit of trade , they are no enemies to to pleasure ; nay , the latter feems to be LETTER 63 II .
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... feems to be the great end of their induftry . They hunt after money , in order to enjoy life , and not for the fake of being faid to die rich . Their highest enjoyment , in fummer - time , is in giving enter- tainments at their gardens ...
... feems to be the great end of their induftry . They hunt after money , in order to enjoy life , and not for the fake of being faid to die rich . Their highest enjoyment , in fummer - time , is in giving enter- tainments at their gardens ...
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Page 143 - Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords, And chants his sonnet to deceive the time, Till the due season calls him to repose : Thus I...
Page 134 - Liberty, thou goddess heav'nly bright ! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight ! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eas'd of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 171 - ... was behind, Megara before me ; Piraeus on the right, Corinth on the left ; all which towns, once famous and flourishing, now lie overturned, and buried in their ruins : upon this sight I could not but think presently within myself, alas ! how do we poor mortals fret and vex ourselves, if any of our friends happen to die, or to be killed, whose life is yet so short, when the carcasses of so many noble cities lie here exposed before me in one view...
Page 289 - Priapus, thy rewards : Sylvanus too his part deferves* Whofe care the fences guards. Sometimes beneath an ancient oak, Or on the matted grafs he lies ; No God of fleep he need invoke ; The ftream that o'er the pebbles flies With gentle (lumber crowns his eyes.
Page 342 - Ambition in idleness; meanness mixed with pride; a desire of riches without industry; aversion to truth; flattery, perfidy, violation of engagements, contempt of civil duties, fear of the prince's virtue, hope from his weakness, but, above all, a perpetual ridicule cast upon virtue, are, I think, the characteristics by which most courtiers in all ages and countries have been constantly distinguished.
Page 289 - HAPPY the man, whom bounteous gods allow With his own hands paternal grounds to plough ! Like the...
Page 170 - When th' humble roof Anchifes' fon explor'd Of good Evander, wealth-defpifing king, Amid the thickets : fo revolves the fcene ; So time ordains, who rolls the things of pride From duft again to duft. Behold that heap Of...
Page 289 - Despise a mean but safe retreat ; I'll ne'er contrive my own undoing, Nor stoop so low as to be great ' The faithless court, the pensive 'change, What solid pleasures can they give? Oh let me in the country range, 'Tis there we breathe, 'tis there we live. ' The beauteous scene of lofty mountains, Smiling valleys, murmuring fountains, Lambs in flowery pastures bleating, Ecclios our complaints repeating ; Birds in cheerful!
Page 158 - Tfris fixes the situation of the Varini and the Angli, the former inhabiting that part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg which extends along the banks of the Warnow ; and the latter the remaining part of the country as far as Lubeck. Such a display of erudition was at first productive of surprise, but afterwards created a good deal of merriment; the company wishing Dr. Nugent joy, that Dr. B. had proved the Mecklenburghers and the Knglish to be one and the same nation.
Page 143 - AS when a traveller, a long day paft In painful fearch of what he cannot find, At night's approach, content with the next cot, There ruminates...