The Emerald, Volumes 1-2Belcher & Armstrong, 1806 |
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... reader , and the Studies of Nature , purity of language , and all the nicety from which it is extracted , may be of ... readers with the following account , duction is a novel , entitled Paul and extracted from an English publica ...
... reader , and the Studies of Nature , purity of language , and all the nicety from which it is extracted , may be of ... readers with the following account , duction is a novel , entitled Paul and extracted from an English publica ...
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... readers into the most captivating ideas of the character of man , and are ever careful to leave them in love with the subject . Their the- ories seem to rise from the reveries of romance rather , than the re- searches of reason . They ...
... readers into the most captivating ideas of the character of man , and are ever careful to leave them in love with the subject . Their the- ories seem to rise from the reveries of romance rather , than the re- searches of reason . They ...
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... reader with a sudden Stella called to her servants to know what ill smell was in the kitchen ? We are making matches , was the answer : Matches , said she , are made in heaven , but , by the brimstone , one would think they were made in ...
... reader with a sudden Stella called to her servants to know what ill smell was in the kitchen ? We are making matches , was the answer : Matches , said she , are made in heaven , but , by the brimstone , one would think they were made in ...
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... Readers and Correspondents . THE articles judiciously selected by LADY are inserted with pleasure They denote an elegant and refined taste , which could give a lively interest to original communications . Appropriate Motto . - During ...
... Readers and Correspondents . THE articles judiciously selected by LADY are inserted with pleasure They denote an elegant and refined taste , which could give a lively interest to original communications . Appropriate Motto . - During ...
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... reader of novels may be duped by spect to the world , not a single novel arts that might prove fatal to her existing gives a correct exhibition quiet , when a girl whose mind had of it - the characters are over drawn not been ...
... reader of novels may be duped by spect to the world , not a single novel arts that might prove fatal to her existing gives a correct exhibition quiet , when a girl whose mind had of it - the characters are over drawn not been ...
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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?