The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays ...Lackington and Company and J. Mawman, 1817 |
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... truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions ( as they are called ) put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses compounded of hugs and slaps and squeezes , more resembling the gambols of a bear than the actions of a ...
... truths touched upon incautiously , plump questions ( as they are called ) put without any preface or refinement , manual caresses compounded of hugs and slaps and squeezes , more resembling the gambols of a bear than the actions of a ...
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... truth and honesty , is doubtless a very meritorious quality , but experience teaches that it is too fre- quently under bad management , and obtruded on society out of time and season in such a manner as to be highly inconvenient and ...
... truth and honesty , is doubtless a very meritorious quality , but experience teaches that it is too fre- quently under bad management , and obtruded on society out of time and season in such a manner as to be highly inconvenient and ...
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... truth , which all the world except themselves has discovered long ago , viz . 6 That a proud man is the most contemptible being in nature . ' Now if these proud men , to whom I address myself , and for whose miserable situation I have ...
... truth , which all the world except themselves has discovered long ago , viz . 6 That a proud man is the most contemptible being in nature . ' Now if these proud men , to whom I address myself , and for whose miserable situation I have ...
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... truth , that so far from being annoyed and made splenetic , as some folks are , when I fall into company with a proud fel- low creature , I feel no other impulse than of pity , with now and then a small propensity to titter , for it ...
... truth , that so far from being annoyed and made splenetic , as some folks are , when I fall into company with a proud fel- low creature , I feel no other impulse than of pity , with now and then a small propensity to titter , for it ...
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... humble , it is not possible for the proud man to descend amongst them for information and society ; if truth does not hang within his reach , he will never dive into a well to fetch it up : his errors , like some 32 N ° 56 . OBSERVER .
... humble , it is not possible for the proud man to descend amongst them for information and society ; if truth does not hang within his reach , he will never dive into a well to fetch it up : his errors , like some 32 N ° 56 . OBSERVER .
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Page 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature...
Page 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Page 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
Page 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Page 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Page 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
Page 94 - And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon : and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 134 - His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Page 111 - I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike.
Page 157 - Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue...