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... pleased . He said , " This is one of the places I do not regret having come to see . It is a very stately place , indeed ; in the house magnificence is not sacrificed to convenience , nor convenience to magnificence . The library is ...
... pleased . He said , " This is one of the places I do not regret having come to see . It is a very stately place , indeed ; in the house magnificence is not sacrificed to convenience , nor convenience to magnificence . The library is ...
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... pleased to furnish me . However slight in itself , as it does honour to that illustrious painter , and most amiable man , I am happy to introduce it . " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . 66 DEAR SIR , " I was not before yesterday that I received ...
... pleased to furnish me . However slight in itself , as it does honour to that illustrious painter , and most amiable man , I am happy to introduce it . " TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS . 66 DEAR SIR , " I was not before yesterday that I received ...
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... pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No man ought to be at ease while he knows himself in the wrong ; and I have not satisfied myself with my long silence . The letter relating to Mr. Sinclair , however , was , I be ...
... pleased that my first letter of the year is to you . No man ought to be at ease while he knows himself in the wrong ; and I have not satisfied myself with my long silence . The letter relating to Mr. Sinclair , however , was , I be ...
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... pleased that he remembers me , and hope that it never can be pos- sible for me to forget him . July 22 , 1782. " " I am much delighted even with the small advances which dear Dr. Lawrence makes towards recovery . If we could have again ...
... pleased that he remembers me , and hope that it never can be pos- sible for me to forget him . July 22 , 1782. " " I am much delighted even with the small advances which dear Dr. Lawrence makes towards recovery . If we could have again ...
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... pleased to preserve me from neglect ; I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply . My health has been , from my twentieth year , such as has seldom afforded me a single day of ease ; but it is at least not ...
... pleased to preserve me from neglect ; I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply . My health has been , from my twentieth year , such as has seldom afforded me a single day of ease ; but it is at least not ...
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Página 288 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Página 187 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Página 24 - His virtues walk'd their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the' Eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Página 24 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then, with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Página 314 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Página 166 - Bacon * upon this subject : testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow ; the force of it depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a crossbow, which has equal force though shot by a child.
Página 183 - But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death ? ' JOHNSON. 'A man may have such a degree of hope as to keep him quiet. You see I am not quiet, from the vehemence with which I talk ; but I do not despair.' MRS. ADAMS. 'You seem, Sir, to forget the merits of our Redeemer.
Página 109 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that, however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but 1 knew them not to be very good : I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Página 257 - Pride was the source of that refusal, and the remembrance of it was painful. A few years ago, I desired to atone for this fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain, on the spot where my father's stall used to stand. In contrition I stood, and I hope the penance was expiatory.
Página 318 - ... from a Spirit of contradiction, and a delight in shewing his powers, he would often maintain the wrong side with equal warmth and ingenuity ; so that, when there was an audience, his real opinions could seldom be gathered from his talk...