 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pages
...till by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hand of a merchant, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl, which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. The m'md of man, on all occasions, adapts itself to the different nature of its objects ; it is contracted... | |
 | 1803 - 372 pages
...until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after along series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. T No. CCXCIV. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6. Difficile est plurimum virtutem revereri qui semper secundafortnna... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. ON PIN-MONET. No. 295. * MR. SPECTATOR, ' I AM turned of my great climacteric, and am naturally a man... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of advehtures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian, diadem. No. 295. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. Prodiga non sentit pcreuntem fcemina censum : At velut exhaustd rcdhivus... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 302 pages
...until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. L. N° 2<)4. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1711-12. Difficile est plurimUm virtutem revererl qui semper secundA... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. • Conceitedness] Instead of this word, which is now out of use, we should say, a conceit, or, a cvnceited... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of advcntures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. (N°. ccxcni. L.) XLIX.. Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, Ut si quis vera viiltum facit.... | |
 | 1819 - 308 pages
...until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. L. N°294. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1711-12. Difficile est plurimiim virtutem revereri qni semper secundU... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...till by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. L No. 294. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, 1711-12. Difficile at plurimum tirtutem recereri qui temper Kcunda Jortima... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 pages
...until by degrees it was ripened into a pearl, which falling into the hands of a diver, after a long series of adventures, is at present that famous pearl which is fixed on the top of the Persian diadem. Li* N°294. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1711-12. Difficile est plurimiunvirtutemrevereri qui semper secundA... | |
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