New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 5C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... tell you . It sufficeth , that when I was farthest of all times from dissembling , I spake truly , and have witness enough ; but these things only I will put your lordship in mind of : First , That you have nothing that you have not ...
... tell you . It sufficeth , that when I was farthest of all times from dissembling , I spake truly , and have witness enough ; but these things only I will put your lordship in mind of : First , That you have nothing that you have not ...
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... tell you how we were preserved ; if I live , I shall make it known . My brains are broken , and I cannot write much . I live yet , and I told you why . Whitney , for whom I sold all my plate at Plymouth , and to whom I gave more credit ...
... tell you how we were preserved ; if I live , I shall make it known . My brains are broken , and I cannot write much . I live yet , and I told you why . Whitney , for whom I sold all my plate at Plymouth , and to whom I gave more credit ...
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... tell you , that I now only owe you thanks for intimating unto me , how modestly soever , the true artificer . For the work itself I had viewed some good while before with singular delight , having received it from our common friend Mr ...
... tell you , that I now only owe you thanks for intimating unto me , how modestly soever , the true artificer . For the work itself I had viewed some good while before with singular delight , having received it from our common friend Mr ...
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... tell you a short story , from the interest you have given me in your safety . At Sienna I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipione , an old Roman courtier in dan- gerous times , having been steward to the Duca di Pagliano , who ...
... tell you a short story , from the interest you have given me in your safety . At Sienna I was tabled in the house of one Alberto Scipione , an old Roman courtier in dan- gerous times , having been steward to the Duca di Pagliano , who ...
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... tell you , I judge you the chief ; and shall , if you please to give me so much liberty as to come and speak with you , easily evince it to your face , with that moderation as becomes a man that loves honesty and godliness , whereso ...
... tell you , I judge you the chief ; and shall , if you please to give me so much liberty as to come and speak with you , easily evince it to your face , with that moderation as becomes a man that loves honesty and godliness , whereso ...
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Adderbury affectionate affliction ANNA SEWARD assure believe blessing brother comfort command Cotterstock cousin DEAR SIR dearest death desire duke EARL OF ROCHESTER expect father favour fear give glad grace hand happiness hath hear heart HENRY WOTTON honour hope humble servant intended JACOB TONSON JAMES THOMSON JOHN DRYDEN JOHN LILBURNE John Paston kind king Lady letter Lichfield live London Lord Shaftesbury lordship madam majesty mean mercy mind Miss morning MOUNTNORRIS nature ness never night obliged occasion OLIVER CROMWELL opinion passions pleased pleasure poet poor pray prayers prince reason receive remember RUSSELL TO LORD SAMUEL FOOTE sent Sir William Wyndham sister soul spirit sure tell thank thee thing thou thought tion told town trouble true truly unto Virgil virtue wife wise wish word write
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Page 204 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 206 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 21 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 138 - ... any shall offend you or your people, you shall have a full and speedy satisfaction for the same by an equal number of just men on both sides, that by no means you may have just occasion of being offended against them.
Page 22 - ... government, our manner of God's worship, our praising and praying to him, and our established ceremonies, as often as their tender consciences shall require us. And, in this examination...
Page 24 - ... than sparing, but not costly. For I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table. But some consume themselves through secret vices, and their hospitality bears the blame. But banish swinish drunkards out of thine house, which is a vice impairing health, consuming much, and makes no show. I never heard praise ascribed to the drunkard, but for the well-bearing of his drink ; which is a better commendation for a brewer's horse or a dray-man, than for either a gentleman or a serving-man.
Page 24 - ... thou shalt live like a rich beggar, in continual want. And the needy man can never live happily nor contentedly. For every disaster makes him ready to mortgage or sell And that gentleman, who sells an acre of land, sells an ounce of credit. For gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. So that if the foundation shall at any time sink, the building must need follow — so much for the first precept.
Page 50 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me ; which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 251 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove, nor brook, lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty. Yet with all these disadvantages to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive.
Page 252 - ... on the other end stand their pensive partners that are to be ; but no more intercourse between the sexes than there is between two countries at war. The ladies indeed may ogle, and the gentlemen sigh; but an embargo is laid on any closer commerce.