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... rudely comical penetrates into the less frequented chambers of the mind . - Blackwood's Magazine . to yo The Infidel in a Gale . - During the late gale on Lake Erie , the steamer On hoard BEING THE DISCOURSES OF JOHN SELDEN , ESQ : OR.
... rudely comical penetrates into the less frequented chambers of the mind . - Blackwood's Magazine . to yo The Infidel in a Gale . - During the late gale on Lake Erie , the steamer On hoard BEING THE DISCOURSES OF JOHN SELDEN , ESQ : OR.
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... less charity probably in bringing them off . Charity to strangers is enjoined in the text . By strangers is there understood those that are not of our own kin , strangers to your blood , not those you cannot tell whence they come ; that ...
... less charity probably in bringing them off . Charity to strangers is enjoined in the text . By strangers is there understood those that are not of our own kin , strangers to your blood , not those you cannot tell whence they come ; that ...
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... less charity ? 3. One of the church of Rome will not come to our prayers , does that agree he doth not like them ? I would fain see a Catholic leave his dinner , because a nobleman's chap- lain says grace , nor haply would he leave the ...
... less charity ? 3. One of the church of Rome will not come to our prayers , does that agree he doth not like them ? I would fain see a Catholic leave his dinner , because a nobleman's chap- lain says grace , nor haply would he leave the ...
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... less . The bull has a leaden seal upon silk , hanging upon the instrument . The brief has sub annulo piscatoris upon the side . 2. He was a wise pope , that when one that * Sic but qu . Pope ? used to be merry with him , before he was ...
... less . The bull has a leaden seal upon silk , hanging upon the instrument . The brief has sub annulo piscatoris upon the side . 2. He was a wise pope , that when one that * Sic but qu . Pope ? used to be merry with him , before he was ...
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... less a proof of stupidity than depravity . Of Goldsmith he said , " He is so much afraid of being unnoticed , that he often talks merely lest you should forget that he is in company . " - B. " B. " Yes , he stands forward . " - J ...
... less a proof of stupidity than depravity . Of Goldsmith he said , " He is so much afraid of being unnoticed , that he often talks merely lest you should forget that he is in company . " - B. " B. " Yes , he stands forward . " - J ...
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Page 180 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 59 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Page 93 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Page 66 - I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss (') was an instance of early cultivation,...
Page 106 - talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh ! " — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, " Nay, you will always look like a gentleman ; but I am talking of being well or ill drest."
Page 26 - But is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. " So much so, sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it.
Page 22 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Page 146 - It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.
Page 150 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning ; must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Page 95 - I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. "Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.