Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer's Family, and a Few Select FriendsJ. Moyes, Greville street., 1823 - 384 pages |
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... meet the public eye , the Author is not bound to comply with the custom , nor even to give his reasons for departing from it . But as a book without a preface would be as useless as a watch without a key , he will wind up what he has to ...
... meet the public eye , the Author is not bound to comply with the custom , nor even to give his reasons for departing from it . But as a book without a preface would be as useless as a watch without a key , he will wind up what he has to ...
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... meet misfortunes like this , and , when they arise , to bear the shock like men . I shall be glad to be favoured with your arrange- ments upon this melancholy occasion , and to assist you in any thing I can , in doing the last duty to ...
... meet misfortunes like this , and , when they arise , to bear the shock like men . I shall be glad to be favoured with your arrange- ments upon this melancholy occasion , and to assist you in any thing I can , in doing the last duty to ...
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... do , without reserve , command me in that which meets your perfect appro- bation . If I can reckon upon the use of this property for any definite time , it will of course afford me a disposable power over my own , and benefit both your- 30.
... do , without reserve , command me in that which meets your perfect appro- bation . If I can reckon upon the use of this property for any definite time , it will of course afford me a disposable power over my own , and benefit both your- 30.
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... meets with that reward which his worth and merits deserve . I did not know , until your letter reached me , of the sad separation you have now to deplore . These are afflictions which , as they are common to us , we must be prepared to meet ...
... meets with that reward which his worth and merits deserve . I did not know , until your letter reached me , of the sad separation you have now to deplore . These are afflictions which , as they are common to us , we must be prepared to meet ...
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... meet . I can well judge of your feelings in the anticipation of a separation . The identity of soul and affection in such hearts , when likely to be torn asunder , must be acute in the extreme ; yet it cannot destroy that self ...
... meet . I can well judge of your feelings in the anticipation of a separation . The identity of soul and affection in such hearts , when likely to be torn asunder , must be acute in the extreme ; yet it cannot destroy that self ...
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Page 366 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 337 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 380 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 362 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 288 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 244 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 308 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Page 281 - The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 333 - O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!
Page 259 - Farewell, great painter of mankind, Who reach'd the noblest point of art; Whose pictur'd morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart ! If genius fire thee, reader, stay ; If nature touch thee, drop a tear : — If neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.