The Retrospective Review.., Volume 7Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1823 |
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Page 66
... Once , our fathers were a mighty people . The men before the flood and after had their thousand years allotted to them , and they were wise and happy . They were patriarchs , and saw through the long file of their generations , blessing ...
... Once , our fathers were a mighty people . The men before the flood and after had their thousand years allotted to them , and they were wise and happy . They were patriarchs , and saw through the long file of their generations , blessing ...
Page 69
... once fed to satiety . Now , having lost " the substantials , " we have nothing to do , but to get speedily thin upon turtle and stewed carp , ( we wonder whether our friend of Swabia ended his two hundred and sixty- seventh year in the ...
... once fed to satiety . Now , having lost " the substantials , " we have nothing to do , but to get speedily thin upon turtle and stewed carp , ( we wonder whether our friend of Swabia ended his two hundred and sixty- seventh year in the ...
Page 72
... once . He then observed great sobriety and a strict regimen in his diet , and lived quietly and cheerfully till he was more than a hundred years old . Cornaro is certainly an amus- ing , lively writer , and contrives to put you into a ...
... once . He then observed great sobriety and a strict regimen in his diet , and lived quietly and cheerfully till he was more than a hundred years old . Cornaro is certainly an amus- ing , lively writer , and contrives to put you into a ...
Page 75
... once a deep and a heightened style ; not so flowing as Jeremy Taylor , and scarcely so sublime as Sir Thomas Brown ; yet better adapted perhaps than either for enforcing his own profound suggestions , for laying bare the discovered land ...
... once a deep and a heightened style ; not so flowing as Jeremy Taylor , and scarcely so sublime as Sir Thomas Brown ; yet better adapted perhaps than either for enforcing his own profound suggestions , for laying bare the discovered land ...
Page 76
... once abridged by the deluge . " course . How this may be , we know not . One thing , however , is certain ; namely , that persons have been known to attain ages almost incredible , without any thing appearing to account for their ...
... once abridged by the deluge . " course . How this may be , we know not . One thing , however , is certain ; namely , that persons have been known to attain ages almost incredible , without any thing appearing to account for their ...
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