The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 33-34 |
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... manner and circumstances , that they make a poor figure in other people's mouths , and suffer even more by printing than they do by repeating . It is also a very difficult thing to pen a witticism ; for by the time we have adjusted all ...
... manner and circumstances , that they make a poor figure in other people's mouths , and suffer even more by printing than they do by repeating . It is also a very difficult thing to pen a witticism ; for by the time we have adjusted all ...
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... manner , if it were only for the purpose of giving him lessons and instructions in the arts of government ; for in that case his vanity , which made him act a part for applause even in his expiring moments , would have opened his doors ...
... manner , if it were only for the purpose of giving him lessons and instructions in the arts of government ; for in that case his vanity , which made him act a part for applause even in his expiring moments , would have opened his doors ...
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... many excellent things ; and though his manners were not calculated for popularity , yet his reputation through the empire VOL . XXXIII . C was universal ; he regulated all domestic matters with consummate NO . 53 . 13 OBSERVER .
... many excellent things ; and though his manners were not calculated for popularity , yet his reputation through the empire VOL . XXXIII . C was universal ; he regulated all domestic matters with consummate NO . 53 . 13 OBSERVER .
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... manners to the model of what is commonly called The Old Court , is another grand defaulter against times and seasons : his entrances and exits are to be performed with a stated regularity ; he measures his devoirs with an exactitude ...
... manners to the model of what is commonly called The Old Court , is another grand defaulter against times and seasons : his entrances and exits are to be performed with a stated regularity ; he measures his devoirs with an exactitude ...
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... manners have set up for all men to steer by ! Jokes out of season , unpleasant truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions , as they are called , put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses compounded of hugs and ...
... manners have set up for all men to steer by ! Jokes out of season , unpleasant truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions , as they are called , put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses compounded of hugs and ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Página 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog...
Página 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Página 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Página 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Página 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Página 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Página 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Página 123 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...