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Side 25
... continued in a postscript to the 1st of November in the same year . The first section of this part describes concisely the methods of borrow- ing the funded debt , which have successively been adopted , and subjoms a clear ...
... continued in a postscript to the 1st of November in the same year . The first section of this part describes concisely the methods of borrow- ing the funded debt , which have successively been adopted , and subjoms a clear ...
Side 38
... continued for many years , if it , has been fruitful in calamity , has not been without its compensations . How many young gentlemen but for this would have proceeded in the ordinary course of education , to finish by T the lessons and ...
... continued for many years , if it , has been fruitful in calamity , has not been without its compensations . How many young gentlemen but for this would have proceeded in the ordinary course of education , to finish by T the lessons and ...
Side 41
... continued in blood , it has ended in the per petuation of tyranny and ignorance . Some of the legendary superstitions which have been engrafted on the true religion , are mentioned in a manner which brought Mr. Gibbon's characteristic ...
... continued in blood , it has ended in the per petuation of tyranny and ignorance . Some of the legendary superstitions which have been engrafted on the true religion , are mentioned in a manner which brought Mr. Gibbon's characteristic ...
Side 42
... continued to improve till they approached the opening of the Gulf of Lepanto , and were treated with the view of Patras and the surrounding country . The minarets of the Turkish moschs glittering in the sunbeams , the verdure of the ...
... continued to improve till they approached the opening of the Gulf of Lepanto , and were treated with the view of Patras and the surrounding country . The minarets of the Turkish moschs glittering in the sunbeams , the verdure of the ...
Side 55
... continued supplying us with pipes , which , though perhaps not half emptied , were changed three times , as is the custom when particular honours are intended for a guest . There are no common topics of discourse between a Turkish ...
... continued supplying us with pipes , which , though perhaps not half emptied , were changed three times , as is the custom when particular honours are intended for a guest . There are no common topics of discourse between a Turkish ...
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Side 135 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Side 137 - The Mind, that broods o'er guilty woes, Is like the Scorpion girt by fire, In circle narrowing as it glows, The flames around their captive close, Till inly...
Side 151 - I have great love and regard towards you; and desire to win and gain your love and friendship, by a kind, just and peaceable life...
Side 85 - For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. for there are no bands in their death : but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men , neither are they plagued like other men.
Side 151 - God do to us, who hath made us, not to devour and destroy one another, but to live soberly and kindly together in the world.
Side 138 - Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No: gayer insects fluttering by !Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.
Side 136 - As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look, by death revealed ! Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Side 92 - But though the ancients thus their rules invade, (As kings dispense with laws themselves have made,) Moderns, beware! or if you must offend Against the precept, ne'er transgress its end; Let it be seldom, and compelled by need; And have, at least, their precedent to plead.
Side 136 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed...
Side 465 - The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected : oft they...