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Side 8
... against the grain ; therefore take it as the author has given it you . THE MEDICINE . A TALE FOR THE LADIES . MISS Molly , a fam'd toaft , was fair and young , Had wealth and charms - but then she had a tongue ! From morn to night th ...
... against the grain ; therefore take it as the author has given it you . THE MEDICINE . A TALE FOR THE LADIES . MISS Molly , a fam'd toaft , was fair and young , Had wealth and charms - but then she had a tongue ! From morn to night th ...
Side 14
... against him ; declaring that this was the most favourable conjuncture for afferting their liberty , Letters from the Hague of the 23d inftant , N. S. fay , they have advices from Vienna , which import , that his Electoral Highness of ...
... against him ; declaring that this was the most favourable conjuncture for afferting their liberty , Letters from the Hague of the 23d inftant , N. S. fay , they have advices from Vienna , which import , that his Electoral Highness of ...
Side 21
... against France the enfuing campaign , in order to oblige it to fuch a peace as inay eftablish the tranquillity of Europe for the future . We are alfo informed , that the Pope ufes all imaginable shifts to elude the treaty concluded with ...
... against France the enfuing campaign , in order to oblige it to fuch a peace as inay eftablish the tranquillity of Europe for the future . We are alfo informed , that the Pope ufes all imaginable shifts to elude the treaty concluded with ...
Side 35
... against the late fpirit of enthusiasm . The writer had by long experience obferved , that in company very grave difcourfes had been followed by bawdry ; and therefore has turned the humour that way with great fuccefs , and taken from ...
... against the late fpirit of enthusiasm . The writer had by long experience obferved , that in company very grave difcourfes had been followed by bawdry ; and therefore has turned the humour that way with great fuccefs , and taken from ...
Side 38
... against men of wit , as one would know the tricks of play , to be fecure against the cheats . But do not you hear , Acorn , that report , that fome potentates of the Alliance have taken care of themfelves exclusive of us ? Ac . How ...
... against men of wit , as one would know the tricks of play , to be fecure against the cheats . But do not you hear , Acorn , that report , that fome potentates of the Alliance have taken care of themfelves exclusive of us ? Ac . How ...
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Side 285 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Side 442 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Side 206 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Side 604 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Side 371 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Side 604 - I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Side 442 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Side 442 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
Side 515 - The gentleman of the house told me, if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country. I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour. I was very much...
Side 389 - To this he added, that, for his part, he could not wish to see the Turk driven out of Europe, which he believed could not but be prejudicial to our woollen manufacture.