The Weekly Miscellany; Or, Instructive Entertainer: Containing a Collection of Select Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse; Curious Anecdotes, Instructive Tales, and Ingenious Essays on Different Subjects, Volume 7R. Goadby, 1776 |
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... attend ; Around the Orb the fun difplays Its fervent heat and golden rays : What liquor can with N ectar vie ? None drink it but the Gods on high . Join the above , and you will find The pureft emblem of the mind . A QUESTION , by J ...
... attend ; Around the Orb the fun difplays Its fervent heat and golden rays : What liquor can with N ectar vie ? None drink it but the Gods on high . Join the above , and you will find The pureft emblem of the mind . A QUESTION , by J ...
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... attended with confequences truly to be deplored . These friends were the firft perfons who fhut their doors against his unhappy widow and her children , at the time when they stood moft in need of their countenance and assistance ...
... attended with confequences truly to be deplored . These friends were the firft perfons who fhut their doors against his unhappy widow and her children , at the time when they stood moft in need of their countenance and assistance ...
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... attend the trial of his brother . Pierre , having earnestly en- treated him to be firm , and to fpeak boldly against him , foon re- ceived his fentence ; a fentence which the Chief Magistrate and the Counfellors affembled neither wifhed ...
... attend the trial of his brother . Pierre , having earnestly en- treated him to be firm , and to fpeak boldly against him , foon re- ceived his fentence ; a fentence which the Chief Magistrate and the Counfellors affembled neither wifhed ...
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... attended to by every part of the habitable earth , from one Pole to the other .--- Dr Watfon took his text from Romans xiii . 3 , 4. Rulers are not a terror to good works , but to the evil . Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ...
... attended to by every part of the habitable earth , from one Pole to the other .--- Dr Watfon took his text from Romans xiii . 3 , 4. Rulers are not a terror to good works , but to the evil . Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ...
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... attend to the private hiftories of any of thofe under his command , in whofe fortunes he felt himself interested . While he was one day engaged in the attack of a fortification , his foot unfortunately flipped , and he fell down . One ...
... attend to the private hiftories of any of thofe under his command , in whofe fortunes he felt himself interested . While he was one day engaged in the attack of a fortification , his foot unfortunately flipped , and he fell down . One ...
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Page 295 - I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ; his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Page 30 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good. and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is a minister of God to thee for good.
Page 222 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 295 - I took a single captive, and having first shut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.
Page 222 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 222 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
Page 222 - Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
Page 130 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...
Page 295 - He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Page 130 - ... insulted by his adversary, or despised by the world. It may be laid down as an unfailing and universal axiom, that " all pride is abject and mean.