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Page 109 - The grief assumed, compell'd her to be kind ! For he would proof of plighted kindness crave, That she resented first, and then forgave ; And to his grief and penance yielded more Than his presumption had required before.
Page 38 - SACRED To the memory of THOMAS JACKSON, COMEDIAN, who was engaged, 21st of Dec. 1741, to play a comic cast of characters, in this great theatre — the World : for many of which he was prompted by nature to excel. The season being ended, his benefit over, the charges all paid, and his account closed, he made his exit in the tragedy of Death...
Page 26 - One day that he visited me in London, he came into my room laughing, and apparently well pleased. " What has put you into this good humour, Hume?" said I. — " Why, man," replied he, " I have just now had the best thing said to me I ever heard. I was complaining in a company, where I spent the morning, that I was very ill treated by the world, and that the censures passed upon me were hard and unreasonable.
Page 26 - You put me in mind,' said an honest fellow in the company, whose name I did not know, ' of an acquaintance of mine, a notary public, who, having been condemned to be hanged for forgery, lamented the hardship of his case ; that, after having written many thousand inoffensive sheets, he should be hanged for one line.
Page 64 - What does not fade ? The tower that long had stood The crush of thunder and the warring winds, Shook by the slow but sure destroyer Time, Now hangs in doubtful ruins o'er its base.
Page 255 - ... very desirable attainment of either a preventive or a cure. It seems probable that the leaf is first infected in the spring, or early in the summer, before the corn shoots up into straw, and that the fungus is then of an orange colour...
Page 327 - ... scymetar, and a dagger, issue out of a wood at a short distance, at the head of his troop. Instigated by a sudden emotion of resentment, Bishop determined to inflict on this man the just punishment of his offences ; but being himself without weapons, he borrowed a pistol from the holsters of the officer who accompanied him. Thus provided, he galloped up to the Malay, and presented the pistol to his head. The Malay and his followers, confounded at this bold act of a single, man, offered no resistance....
Page 255 - VI. fig. 1 . 2.), they germinate and push their minute roots, no doubt (though these have not yet . been traced), into the cellular texture beyond the bark, where they draw their nourishment, by intercepting the sap that was intended by nature for the nutriment of the grain; the corn of course becomes shrivelled in proportion as the fungi are more or less numerous on the plant ; and as the kerne!
Page 48 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Page 330 - You are acquainted with the circumstances of this case. Such is my confidence in you, that if you will say that giving your uncle a pardon would be just, useful or honourable for Corsica, I promise you it shall be granted.