Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 sider |
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... meet with fome folid though not much coarfe food , and the major part , I hope light and eafy of digeftion ; those with keen appetites will partake of each dish , while others more delicate may felect fuch dishes as are more light , and ...
... meet with fome folid though not much coarfe food , and the major part , I hope light and eafy of digeftion ; those with keen appetites will partake of each dish , while others more delicate may felect fuch dishes as are more light , and ...
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... . a strict adherence to truth , " To pomp or pathos I make no pretence , " But range in the broad path of common fenfe , " Nor ever burrow in the dark fublime . " And though no doubt you will meet with fome oc- 22 LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON .
... . a strict adherence to truth , " To pomp or pathos I make no pretence , " But range in the broad path of common fenfe , " Nor ever burrow in the dark fublime . " And though no doubt you will meet with fome oc- 22 LIFE OF J. LACKINGTON .
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James Lackington. And though no doubt you will meet with fome oc- currences in which you may find caufe for cenfure , yet I hope others will prefent themfelves , which your candour will induce you to commend . Difdain not then these ...
James Lackington. And though no doubt you will meet with fome oc- currences in which you may find caufe for cenfure , yet I hope others will prefent themfelves , which your candour will induce you to commend . Difdain not then these ...
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... meet- ings by the confent or knowledge of my master and mistress ; nor had my zeal been fo great as to make me openly violate their commands . But as my zeal increased much faster than my knowledge , I foon dif- regarded their orders ...
... meet- ings by the confent or knowledge of my master and mistress ; nor had my zeal been fo great as to make me openly violate their commands . But as my zeal increased much faster than my knowledge , I foon dif- regarded their orders ...
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... meet- ings ; and as the prayer - meeting is the leaft private of any of them , I will firft take notice of that . To the prayer - meetings , which were in general held in private houfes , they often invited people who were not of their ...
... meet- ings ; and as the prayer - meeting is the leaft private of any of them , I will firft take notice of that . To the prayer - meetings , which were in general held in private houfes , they often invited people who were not of their ...
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Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington James Lackington Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2018 |
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Side 159 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Side 110 - Our portion is not large, indeed ; But then how little do we need ! For nature's calls are few : In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
Side 85 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Side 247 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Side 151 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Side 169 - To Banbury came I; O prophane one ! Where I saw a puritane one, Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
Side 163 - This I take to be properly enthusiasm, which, though founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rising from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain, works yet, where it once gets footing, more powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either of those two, or both together...
Side 81 - ... state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Side 163 - God, I own, cannot be denied to be able to enlighten the understanding, by a ray darted into the mind immediately from the fountain of light...
Side 238 - The best time for bookselling, is when there is no kind of news stirring ; then many of those who for months would have done nothing but talk of war or peace, revolutions, and counter-revolutions, &c.