Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 páginas |
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... Women 530 351 32. Female Labour , April , 1810 . 33. Hoaxing 34. American Slaves 35. Twins 352 ! 352 352 353 353 353 43. A Man of Taste 36. Sound Argument and Exemplary Urbanity 37. Egyptian Toleration and Kindness to Christians 38 ...
... Women 530 351 32. Female Labour , April , 1810 . 33. Hoaxing 34. American Slaves 35. Twins 352 ! 352 352 353 353 353 43. A Man of Taste 36. Sound Argument and Exemplary Urbanity 37. Egyptian Toleration and Kindness to Christians 38 ...
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... women , then in the lap of ease and contentment , are bereft of beloved husbands , and left with numerous families of children to maintain , un- qualified for the arduous task - many orphans are destitute of parents to foster and ...
... women , then in the lap of ease and contentment , are bereft of beloved husbands , and left with numerous families of children to maintain , un- qualified for the arduous task - many orphans are destitute of parents to foster and ...
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... women and small boys , had segars almost constantly in their mouths . Others , placing full confidence in garlic , chewed it almost the whole day ; some kept it in their pockets and shoes . Many were afraid to allow the barbers or hair ...
... women and small boys , had segars almost constantly in their mouths . Others , placing full confidence in garlic , chewed it almost the whole day ; some kept it in their pockets and shoes . Many were afraid to allow the barbers or hair ...
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... woman , whose husband had just died of the fever , was seized with the pains of parturition , and had nobody to assist her , as the women in the neighbourhood were afraid to go into the house . She lay , for a considerable time , in a ...
... woman , whose husband had just died of the fever , was seized with the pains of parturition , and had nobody to assist her , as the women in the neighbourhood were afraid to go into the house . She lay , for a considerable time , in a ...
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... women , who , in their lying - in , have been obliged to depend on their maid - servants , for assistance - and some have had none but from their husbands . Some of the midwives were dead - and others had left the city . A servant girl ...
... women , who , in their lying - in , have been obliged to depend on their maid - servants , for assistance - and some have had none but from their husbands . Some of the midwives were dead - and others had left the city . A servant girl ...
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Página 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Página 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Página 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Página 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Página 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.