The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository ..., Volume 2William Marrat, Pishey Thompson Whittingham and Rowland., 1812 |
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... become useful to the world . But where is the utility of perseverance uncombined with hope ? Would it not savour of madness , if a man was to persist in an undertaking while he knows it is impossible to succeed ? If we deny this , we ...
... become useful to the world . But where is the utility of perseverance uncombined with hope ? Would it not savour of madness , if a man was to persist in an undertaking while he knows it is impossible to succeed ? If we deny this , we ...
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... becomes the property of the best bidder . This would lead me too far from my subject ; but I beg the benevolent reader , who certainly will thank me for not exposing again to his view those scenes of woe and wretchedness , to follow ...
... becomes the property of the best bidder . This would lead me too far from my subject ; but I beg the benevolent reader , who certainly will thank me for not exposing again to his view those scenes of woe and wretchedness , to follow ...
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... become a sharer in the blessings of a land of liberty . Suppose us now safely landed , after having escaped the dangers of the turbulent elements , and the pestilential breath of that yellow monster whose fury wages a more destructive ...
... become a sharer in the blessings of a land of liberty . Suppose us now safely landed , after having escaped the dangers of the turbulent elements , and the pestilential breath of that yellow monster whose fury wages a more destructive ...
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... become men . " Self . " Just so . " Dom . " From which I must conclude that in this fine country you set no value on a man unless he be clever . Then , massa , me not clever , and will return to yon country , where a negro like me is ...
... become men . " Self . " Just so . " Dom . " From which I must conclude that in this fine country you set no value on a man unless he be clever . Then , massa , me not clever , and will return to yon country , where a negro like me is ...
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... becomes mad from immoderate vinous potations , must be amenable to law , because that mad- ness was of his own seeking . Again , it may be said , that the drunken man , being as much in a state of delirium as any maniac , ought he to be ...
... becomes mad from immoderate vinous potations , must be amenable to law , because that mad- ness was of his own seeking . Again , it may be said , that the drunken man , being as much in a state of delirium as any maniac , ought he to be ...
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Page 197 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 322 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 309 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 49 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 163 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one-half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action.
Page 169 - Then women have, of course, all ignorant men for enemies to their instruction, who being bound (as they think), in point of sex, to know more, are not well pleased, in point of fact, to know less. But among men of sense and liberal politeness, a woman who has successfully cultivated her mind, without diminishing the gentleness and propriety of her manners, is always sure to meet with a respect and attention bordering upon enthusiasm.
Page 123 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Page 170 - ... modesty and the refined manners of women to their being well taught in moral and religious duty, to the hazardous situation in which they are placed, to that perpetual vigilance which it is their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action, and to that cultivation of the mild virtues which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous virtues expect at their hands.
Page 286 - ... why the disproportion in knowledge between the two sexes should be so great, when the inequality in natural talents is so small; or why the understanding of women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand.
Page 204 - And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.