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The fifth number of the Polyanthos , the former terms . year to their present
subscribers on The advertise tembellished with a portrait of Bernard , the
favourite son of Momus , is just issu- ments will be struck off on a separate ed
from the press of ...
The fifth number of the Polyanthos , the former terms . year to their present
subscribers on The advertise tembellished with a portrait of Bernard , the
favourite son of Momus , is just issu- ments will be struck off on a separate ed
from the press of ...
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there is ten times more terror in a fsuccess the hospital and the house of
FORMER AND PRESENT AGES . Leghorn for footh - piciis and fiddleDialogue .
strings : and , that the lower part of the community may not have the .... " You think
tlre ...
there is ten times more terror in a fsuccess the hospital and the house of
FORMER AND PRESENT AGES . Leghorn for footh - piciis and fiddleDialogue .
strings : and , that the lower part of the community may not have the .... " You think
tlre ...
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THE PRESENT . COLD , cold is the birth of the infantile To M ** M. A. D. the
following piece is Year , humbly inscribed . Whose cradle the winds of the Win- ,
ter will rock , Beauty's queen says one day to her son , Till the Spring in her
bosom the ...
THE PRESENT . COLD , cold is the birth of the infantile To M ** M. A. D. the
following piece is Year , humbly inscribed . Whose cradle the winds of the Win- ,
ter will rock , Beauty's queen says one day to her son , Till the Spring in her
bosom the ...
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Among the variety of banking schemes a elegant poetical Present of our valua .
our speculating country , noge apper ble friend , and hope it is the commence .
with 80 much profit and advantage a ment of an interesting correspondence . that
...
Among the variety of banking schemes a elegant poetical Present of our valua .
our speculating country , noge apper ble friend , and hope it is the commence .
with 80 much profit and advantage a ment of an interesting correspondence . that
...
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He has also present ed a sketch of the Life of the late M de Wailly . M. Monges ,
one of the most celefrated men of the present day , and who Emerald Notice . has
risen from obscurity to be one of THE BOSTON ATHENÆUN . the principal ...
He has also present ed a sketch of the Life of the late M de Wailly . M. Monges ,
one of the most celefrated men of the present day , and who Emerald Notice . has
risen from obscurity to be one of THE BOSTON ATHENÆUN . the principal ...
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Page 276 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 276 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ! Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath...
Page 276 - I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me ; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip, But where my own did hope to sip.
Page 177 - Christian religion, which might be drawn from the prophecies of the Old Testament, from the necessary connection it has with the whole system of the Jewish religion, from the miracles of Christ, and from the evidence given of his resurrection by all the other apostles, he thought the conversion of St Paul alone, duly considered, was of itself a demonstration sufficient to prove Christianity to be a divine revelation.
Page 30 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 224 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves...
Page 237 - ... if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
Page 235 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Page 200 - Be yet patient! I have but a few words more to say. I am going to my cold and silent grave : my lamp of life is nearly extinguished : my race is run : the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom!
Page 210 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?