The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and Science for the Year ..., Volume 13

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D. Steel., 1766
 

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Page 26 - I am full of shame, and will never forgive myself if I have not your pardon for what I lately wrote. It was far from my intention to add trouble to the afflicted ; nor could any thing but my being a stranger to you have betrayed me into a fault, for which, if I live, I shall endeavour to make you amends, as a son.
Page 26 - Your most obedient humble servant', This letter he sent by his steward, and soon after went up to town himself to complete the generous act he had now resolved on. By his friendship and assistance Amanda's father was quickly in a condition of retrieving his perplexed affairs. To conclude, he married Amanda, and enjoyed the double satisfaction of having restored a worthy family to their former prosperity, and of making himself happy by an alliance to their virtues.
Page 24 - ... from time to time in her father's affairs . Amanda was in the bloom of her youth and beauty...
Page 14 - ... for if the very mathematical center of the central particle be not accurately in the very mathematical center of the attractive power of the whole mass, the particle will not be attracted equally on all sides.
Page 31 - Confidence one day, following his impetuous nature, advanced a confiderable way before his guides and companions; and not feeling any want of their company, he never enquired after them, nor ever met with them more. In like manner, the other fociety, tho' joined by Jupiter, difagreed and feparated.
Page 21 - You must know then,' said the vizier, ' that one of these owls has a son, and the other a daughter, between whom they are now upon a treaty of marriage. The father of the son...
Page 31 - Diffidence, who, with her doubts and fcruples, always retarded the journey. This was a great annoyance to Vice, who loved not to hear of difficulties and delays, and was never fatisfied without his full career, in whatever his inclinations led him to Folly, he knew, tho...
Page 25 - ... compel us to any thing: but we will not eat the bread of shame; and therefore we charge thee not to think of us, but to avoid the snare which is laid for thy virtue. Beware of pitying us; it is not so bad as you have perhaps been told.
Page 21 - The vizier approached the tree, pretending to be very attentive to the two owls. Upon his return to the sultan, ' Sir,' says he, ' I have heard part of their conversation, but dare not tell you what it is.
Page 30 - ... of low birth and little merit. Such indolence and incapacity is there in the generality of mankind, that they are apt to receive a man for whatever he has a mind to put himself off for ; and admit his overbearing airs as proofs of that merit which he assumes to himself.

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