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... interest alone ; they seemed mere machines , and all their thoughts were employed in the care of their horses . If we gently desired them to make more speed , they took not the least notice ; kind language was what they had by no means ...
... interest alone ; they seemed mere machines , and all their thoughts were employed in the care of their horses . If we gently desired them to make more speed , they took not the least notice ; kind language was what they had by no means ...
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... interest , or from avarice , but seldom from compassion . The very eloquence of a poor man is disgusting ; and that mouth which is opened even for flat- tery , is seldom expected to close without a petition . If , then , you would ward ...
... interest , or from avarice , but seldom from compassion . The very eloquence of a poor man is disgusting ; and that mouth which is opened even for flat- tery , is seldom expected to close without a petition . If , then , you would ward ...
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... interest to have the greatest part of them suppressed . They should be put under laws of not con- tinuing open beyond a certain hour , and harbouring only proper persons . These rules , it may be said , will diminish the necessary taxes ...
... interest to have the greatest part of them suppressed . They should be put under laws of not con- tinuing open beyond a certain hour , and harbouring only proper persons . These rules , it may be said , will diminish the necessary taxes ...
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... interest of every government is to cultivate the necessaries , by which is always meant every happiness our own country can produce ; and suppress all the luxu- ries , by which is meant , on the other hand , every happiness imported ...
... interest of every government is to cultivate the necessaries , by which is always meant every happiness our own country can produce ; and suppress all the luxu- ries , by which is meant , on the other hand , every happiness imported ...
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... interest of society . Among the many publications with which the press is every day burthened , I have often wondered why we never had , as in other countries , an Economical Journal , which might at once direct to all the useful ...
... interest of society . Among the many publications with which the press is every day burthened , I have often wondered why we never had , as in other countries , an Economical Journal , which might at once direct to all the useful ...
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Side 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Side iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Side 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Side 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Side 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Side 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Side 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Side 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Side 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...