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... fair progrefs is enroll'd , Heat of each day , its medium or its cold : Hail infant Science ! grace this favourite foil , Where pleasure ever muft eclipfe the toil . Are there of fine and pure ethereal fight , That melt at woe , or ...
... fair progrefs is enroll'd , Heat of each day , its medium or its cold : Hail infant Science ! grace this favourite foil , Where pleasure ever muft eclipfe the toil . Are there of fine and pure ethereal fight , That melt at woe , or ...
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... fair cloudy 2934 37 37 30,13 fair 14 36 37 27 30 , fair 30 37 38 37 29.93 foggy 25 32 27 30.5 fair 31 31 7.144 2 47 3456 7860 4.0 43 35 42 38 39 9 38 II 37 35200 900 50 55 44444 41 42 30,2 cloudy 16 48 46 30,3 fair 25 38 34 30,68 fair ...
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... fair face , and made beauty itfelf a fpectacle of horror the arrival of the unfortunate widow- er juft as the funeral folemnities were going to be celebrated - his finding a pale and gheftly corpie , inftead of the delight of his eyes ...
... fair face , and made beauty itfelf a fpectacle of horror the arrival of the unfortunate widow- er juft as the funeral folemnities were going to be celebrated - his finding a pale and gheftly corpie , inftead of the delight of his eyes ...
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... fair to fup- pole that he read them with great at- tention . I think he remembered Lim here : Dryden , deler.bing the Tempie of Mars , lay S , The The fowl that fcent afar , the borders fly , Obfervations on Wakefield's Edition of ...
... fair to fup- pole that he read them with great at- tention . I think he remembered Lim here : Dryden , deler.bing the Tempie of Mars , lay S , The The fowl that fcent afar , the borders fly , Obfervations on Wakefield's Edition of ...
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Page 526 - I pass'd — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ; A -worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age.
Page 249 - For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Page 249 - I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 379 - Highness is the last of all mortals whom I should expect to see here." " It was curiosity that led me," said the other; " but I assure you," added he, " that the person -who is the object of all this pomp and magnificence, is the man I envy the least.
Page 391 - Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air?
Page 288 - From his contemporaries he neither courted nor received support : There is in his writings nothing by which the pride of other authors might be gratified, or favour gained ; no exchange of praise, nor solicitation of support.
Page 464 - Lordship's feelings upon such an occasion by our own, and considering, besides, that our numbers might be inconvenient, we desire, in this manner, affectionately to assure your Lordship, that we regret, with a just...
Page 318 - The drinker collects his circle ; the circle naturally spreads; of those who are drawn within it, many become the corrupters and centres of sets and circles of their own : every one countenancing, and perhaps emulating the rest, till a whole neighbourhood be infected from the contagion of a single example.
Page 463 - I am obliged to entreat your assistance. I am now under an arrest for five pounds eighteen shillings. Mr. Strahan, from whom I should have received the necessary help in this case, is not at home; and I am afraid of not finding Mr. Millar. If you will be so good as to send me this sum, I will very gratefully repay you, and add it to all former obligations. I am Sir, Your most obedient and most humble servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. Gough Square, 16 March '.' In the margin of this letter there is a memorandum...
Page 379 - I own," added Helve"tius to me, "• although I knew the danger to be greater of harbouring him at Paris than at London ; and although I thought the family of Hanover not only the lawful sovereigns in England, but the only lawful sovereigns in Europe, as having the...