English 18th Century Dances, Volume 11812 - Akeroyde's padd (Dance) |
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... you may suppose ; Its lustre has but left his brains , And settled in his nose . ( To be continued . ) FOR THE POLTANTHOS . A COURSE OF LECTURES ON NATURAL 1 THE POLYANTHOS . up for being more than a man; a character ...
... you may suppose ; Its lustre has but left his brains , And settled in his nose . ( To be continued . ) FOR THE POLTANTHOS . A COURSE OF LECTURES ON NATURAL 1 THE POLYANTHOS . up for being more than a man; a character ...
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FOR THE POLTANTHOS . A COURSE OF LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY , Delivered under the patronage of the Honorable Council of WELLESLEY COLLEGE in Calcutta , in the years 1807 and 1808 ; and afterwards in Boston , in the year 1811. By ...
FOR THE POLTANTHOS . A COURSE OF LECTURES ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY , Delivered under the patronage of the Honorable Council of WELLESLEY COLLEGE in Calcutta , in the years 1807 and 1808 ; and afterwards in Boston , in the year 1811. By ...
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... courses in endless succession . To this decay and renovation of material objects , the following elegant lines of the philosophic Darwin may be applied without violence to their original allusion . Roll on ye stars ! exult in youthful ...
... courses in endless succession . To this decay and renovation of material objects , the following elegant lines of the philosophic Darwin may be applied without violence to their original allusion . Roll on ye stars ! exult in youthful ...
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... course of studies , both at Oxford and Paris , by which he enriched his mind with all the polemical and physical learning of his time , at the age of twenty - six , in the year 1240 , he gave up all pretensions to ecclesiastical ...
... course of studies , both at Oxford and Paris , by which he enriched his mind with all the polemical and physical learning of his time , at the age of twenty - six , in the year 1240 , he gave up all pretensions to ecclesiastical ...
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... course , will ever bring us to our desired end . And doubtless it cannot prove otherwise ; for , in this spacious field of nature , if once we forsake the true path , we shall immediately lose ourselves , and must ever wander with ...
... course , will ever bring us to our desired end . And doubtless it cannot prove otherwise ; for , in this spacious field of nature , if once we forsake the true path , we shall immediately lose ourselves , and must ever wander with ...
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Page 91 - All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 173 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 210 - Her lips were red, and one was thin ; Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly ; But Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze, Than on the sun in July.
Page 141 - Thou smil'st as if thy soul were soaring To heaven, and heaven's God adoring! And who can tell what visions high May bless an infant's sleeping eye! What brighter throne can brightness find To reign on than an infant's mind, Ere sin destroy or error dim The glory of the seraphim?
Page 217 - Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
Page 12 - Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal nature lifts her changeful form, Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same...
Page 288 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs, Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please, Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. Large bounties to bestow, we wish in vain, But all may shun the guilt of giving pain.
Page 194 - The first discovery of their being affected, was to see the white gutters made by their tears, which plentifully fell down their black cheeks, as they came out of their coal-pits. Hundreds and hundreds of them were soon brought under deep convictions, which (as the event proved) happily ended in a sound and thorough conversion.
Page 142 - How bright the unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies, While heaven and earth combine to say, " How blest the righteous when he dies !
Page 231 - After a solemn pause, Mr. Whitefield thus addressed his numerous audience ; — ' The attendant angel is just about to leave the threshold, and ascend to heaven. And shall he ascend and not bear with him the news of one sinner...