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... been brought to the probably perfect state in which the best and latest editions exhibit them . Some recent editors have , indeed , been too ready to admit alterations in the received text : but the evil has speedily wrought its own ...
... been brought to the probably perfect state in which the best and latest editions exhibit them . Some recent editors have , indeed , been too ready to admit alterations in the received text : but the evil has speedily wrought its own ...
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The cruel case of the Miller's Daughter , and the magnificent fortune of Sir Richard Monday , the parish foundling , cannot fail to attract particular attention . 6 The Marriage ' department of this poem will probably be found the most ...
The cruel case of the Miller's Daughter , and the magnificent fortune of Sir Richard Monday , the parish foundling , cannot fail to attract particular attention . 6 The Marriage ' department of this poem will probably be found the most ...
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... and he even flat- ters himself , that the sketch here presented , however imperfect , may not be totally without interest , as exhibiting the principal features of our commercial progress ; and may , probably , leave a more distinct ...
... and he even flat- ters himself , that the sketch here presented , however imperfect , may not be totally without interest , as exhibiting the principal features of our commercial progress ; and may , probably , leave a more distinct ...
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The same gentleman would probably have availed himself of the travels of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver , if they had been extant . And if he had undertaken to construct a chart of the ancient world , he might with the same felicity have chosen ...
The same gentleman would probably have availed himself of the travels of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver , if they had been extant . And if he had undertaken to construct a chart of the ancient world , he might with the same felicity have chosen ...
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One cause of the attention of youth being so little directed to our national laws and constitution , in schools , is probably the want of suitable books . We have an abundance of learned and able writers on these subjects ; but few ...
One cause of the attention of youth being so little directed to our national laws and constitution , in schools , is probably the want of suitable books . We have an abundance of learned and able writers on these subjects ; but few ...
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Page 548 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid — his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Page 548 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 230 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 221 - But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Page 221 - When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice ; (for the LORD thy God is a merciful God ;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Page 528 - They who contend, that nothing less can justify subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, than the actual belief of each and every separate proposition contained in them, must suppose, that the legislature expected the consent of ten thousand men, and that in perpetual succession, not to one controverted proposition, but to many hundreds. It is difficult to conceive how this could be expected by any, who ' observed the incurable diversity of human opinion upon all subjects short of demonstration.
Page 317 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 230 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 154 - O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright defiler Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate wooer, Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, That solder'st close impossibilities, And...
Page 390 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.