Traditions and Recollections: Domestic, Clerical, and Literary; in which are Included Letters of Charles II, Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtenay, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter, Scott, and Other Distinguished Characters, Volume 2J. Nichols and son, 1826 - 460 pages |
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Page 781 - I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 640 - While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead : but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
Page 473 - Hush'd in deep silence, sleep ye when 'tis calm ? When from the pallid sky the sun descends, With many a spot, that o'er his glaring orb Uncertain wanders, stain'd ; red fiery streaks Begin to flush around. The reeling clouds Stagger with dizzy poise, as doubting yet Which master to obey : while rising slow, Blank, in the leaden-colour'd east, the moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns.
Page 799 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Page 792 - Proinde tu quoque strepitum istum inanemque discursum et multum ineptos labores, ut primum fuerit occasio, relinque, teque studiis vel otio trade. Satius est...
Page 440 - To soothe and sweeten all the cares we know; Whose glad suggestions still each vain alarm, When nature fades, and life forgets to charm; Thee would the muse invoke! — to thee belong The sage's precept, and the poet's song. What softened views thy magic glass reveals, When o'er the landscape Time's meek twilight steals!
Page 598 - Divorce, now first printed : and, an Essay on the State of the Soul between Death and the Resurrection, the third edition : to both of which premiums have been adjudged by the Church Union Society.
Page 506 - Except ye be born again of water and of the Spirit, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of God, (John iii.
Page 793 - ... consequences which strongly remind us of the consequences that ensued, after the Revolution, from the repeal of the game laws in France. The whole population, thrown agog by their new privilege, poured forth upon the country, and, variously accoutred, made war, in grotesque and unpractised style, upon the fowls of the air and the beasts of the field.
Page 500 - Specimens and Parts; containing a History of the County of Kent, and a Dissertation on the Laws, from the Reign of Edward the Confessor to Edward the First; of a topographical, commercial, civil, and nautical History of South Britain, with its gradual and comparative Progress in Trade, Arts, Population, and Shipping, from authentic Documents.