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... secure of deference , and above fear of criticism ; others humbly offer- ing their weak assistance with softness and submis- sion , which they believe impossible to be resisted ; of contempt , which he that refuses them will in- C 3 N ...
... secure of deference , and above fear of criticism ; others humbly offer- ing their weak assistance with softness and submis- sion , which they believe impossible to be resisted ; of contempt , which he that refuses them will in- C 3 N ...
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... secure the bliss of publication . I cannot but consider myself as placed in a very incommodious situation , where I am forced to repress confidence , which it is pleas- ing to indulge , to repay civilities with appear- ances of neglect ...
... secure the bliss of publication . I cannot but consider myself as placed in a very incommodious situation , where I am forced to repress confidence , which it is pleas- ing to indulge , to repay civilities with appear- ances of neglect ...
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... secure his first conquest by the addition of another , add fortress to fortress and city to city , till despair and opportunity turn his enemies upon him , and he loses in a moment the glory of a reign . The philosophers having found an ...
... secure his first conquest by the addition of another , add fortress to fortress and city to city , till despair and opportunity turn his enemies upon him , and he loses in a moment the glory of a reign . The philosophers having found an ...
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... secure my favour against the time when I should be rich , to pay their court , by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that she coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May - hill ; or at ...
... secure my favour against the time when I should be rich , to pay their court , by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that she coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May - hill ; or at ...
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... secure the love of those with whom we transact . For though it is generally imagined , that he who grants favours may spare any attention to his be haviour , and that usefulness will always procure friends ; yet it has been found , that ...
... secure the love of those with whom we transact . For though it is generally imagined , that he who grants favours may spare any attention to his be haviour , and that usefulness will always procure friends ; yet it has been found , that ...
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Page 78 - ... us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made: that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at...
Page 47 - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the publick curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyrick, and not to be known from one...
Page 239 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 74 - Here Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new path, which he supposed only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.
Page 74 - Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground. This uneasiness of his mind inclined him to lay hold on every new object, and give way to every sensation that might soothe or divert him. He listened to every echo, he mounted every hill for a fresh prospect, he turned aside to every cascade...
Page 209 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 197 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 223 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish ; to graze the herb all leaving Devour'd each other ; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim, Glared on him passing.
Page 76 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome *him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the bramble?, the glimmer of a taper.
Page 298 - ... associates for that help which could not now be given him ; and many spent their last moments in cautioning others against the folly by which they were intercepted in the midst of their course.