Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 sider |
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... never taught , and therefore go more fast . ¡ BUTLER , LONDON : Printed for the AUTHOR , No. 46 and 47 , Chifwell - Street ; and fold by all other Bookfellers . MDCCXCIV . [ Price 2s . 6d . in boards - bound 3s . ] IN L THE NEW YORK ...
... never taught , and therefore go more fast . ¡ BUTLER , LONDON : Printed for the AUTHOR , No. 46 and 47 , Chifwell - Street ; and fold by all other Bookfellers . MDCCXCIV . [ Price 2s . 6d . in boards - bound 3s . ] IN L THE NEW YORK ...
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... never means " To fteal your time again . " Never fhould I have ventured to appear in this habit before the public , had not the following mo tives urged me thereto ; Many of my acquaintances have frequently ex- preffed a defire PREFACE .
... never means " To fteal your time again . " Never fhould I have ventured to appear in this habit before the public , had not the following mo tives urged me thereto ; Many of my acquaintances have frequently ex- preffed a defire PREFACE .
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... never wrote . " Then think , " That he who thus is forc'd to speak , " Unless commanded , would have died in filence . " If among the multitude of memoirs under which the prefs has groaned , and with which it ftill conti- nues to be ...
... never wrote . " Then think , " That he who thus is forc'd to speak , " Unless commanded , would have died in filence . " If among the multitude of memoirs under which the prefs has groaned , and with which it ftill conti- nues to be ...
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... never fhall want books while L. is able to affift them ; and whether they prefer one of his writing , or that of any other author , he protests he will not be in the finalleft degree offended : let every author make the fame declaration ...
... never fhall want books while L. is able to affift them ; and whether they prefer one of his writing , or that of any other author , he protests he will not be in the finalleft degree offended : let every author make the fame declaration ...
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... never to attempt , by dark inuendoes ,. fly hints , and falle afperfions , to injure him , as , if he happens to be a man of becoming fpirit , fuch con- duct will only tend to increafe his exertions , and render him still more cautious ...
... never to attempt , by dark inuendoes ,. fly hints , and falle afperfions , to injure him , as , if he happens to be a man of becoming fpirit , fuch con- duct will only tend to increafe his exertions , and render him still more cautious ...
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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.