Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...Author, 1794 - 328 sider |
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... YOUNG , As a proof of my friendly difpofition , I fhall here add a piece of advice , which I do not hesitate to pro- nounce will , if attended to , entitle them to promo- tion amongst my firft clafs of bookfellers , and eventual-- ly ...
... YOUNG , As a proof of my friendly difpofition , I fhall here add a piece of advice , which I do not hesitate to pro- nounce will , if attended to , entitle them to promo- tion amongst my firft clafs of bookfellers , and eventual-- ly ...
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... YOUNG's Love of Fame . have often requested me to devote what few leifure moments I could fpare , in minuting down fome of the principal occurrences of my life , with a view , fooner or later , of exhibiting the account to the public ...
... YOUNG's Love of Fame . have often requested me to devote what few leifure moments I could fpare , in minuting down fome of the principal occurrences of my life , with a view , fooner or later , of exhibiting the account to the public ...
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... YOUNG . Never did I know or hear of a woman who worked and lived fo hard as he did to fupport Eleven chil dren : and were I to relate the particulars , it would not gain credit . I shall only obferve , that for many years together , fhe ...
... YOUNG . Never did I know or hear of a woman who worked and lived fo hard as he did to fupport Eleven chil dren : and were I to relate the particulars , it would not gain credit . I shall only obferve , that for many years together , fhe ...
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... young bay horfe . Horfe ! it should not be horfe ; but , by the Lord , it is horfe ! " The above old man was called Red Cock for many years before his death , for having one Sunday flept in church , and dreaming that he was at a cock ...
... young bay horfe . Horfe ! it should not be horfe ; but , by the Lord , it is horfe ! " The above old man was called Red Cock for many years before his death , for having one Sunday flept in church , and dreaming that he was at a cock ...
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... young woman who was an ideot . This poor creature had a great aversion to fleeping in a bed , and at bed - time would often run away to a field in the neighbourhood called the Priory , where . fhe flept in the cowfheds . In order to ...
... young woman who was an ideot . This poor creature had a great aversion to fleeping in a bed , and at bed - time would often run away to a field in the neighbourhood called the Priory , where . fhe flept in the cowfheds . In order to ...
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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.