Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished NorthernsWhitaker, Treacher, 1833 - 732 Seiten |
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... Captain Douglas , the commander of the Royal Oak , who , sacrificing life to honour , had refused to quit the vessel when it was in flames , declaring , that “ never had a Douglas been known to leave his port without orders ...
... Captain Douglas , the commander of the Royal Oak , who , sacrificing life to honour , had refused to quit the vessel when it was in flames , declaring , that “ never had a Douglas been known to leave his port without orders ...
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... captain , twice boxed , and once whipped with a dog whip , as many gentle- men can testify : chosen in the night , without the head officer of the town , and but one burgess , yet voted well elected this last session . Cambridge Town ...
... captain , twice boxed , and once whipped with a dog whip , as many gentle- men can testify : chosen in the night , without the head officer of the town , and but one burgess , yet voted well elected this last session . Cambridge Town ...
Seite 63
... Captain Edward Thomson , who collected and published Marvell's works in 1776 , has , with mischievous industry , scraped together , out of the state poems , and other common sewers , a quantity of obscene and scurrilous trash , which we ...
... Captain Edward Thomson , who collected and published Marvell's works in 1776 , has , with mischievous industry , scraped together , out of the state poems , and other common sewers , a quantity of obscene and scurrilous trash , which we ...
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... captain in the Royal army , was taken by the enemy , and died a prisoner in Pontefract Castle . His father , Thomas Bentley , possessed a small estate at Woodlesford , in the parish of Rothwell . In the year 1661 , he married Sarah ...
... captain in the Royal army , was taken by the enemy , and died a prisoner in Pontefract Castle . His father , Thomas Bentley , possessed a small estate at Woodlesford , in the parish of Rothwell . In the year 1661 , he married Sarah ...
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... Captain Grose and Dr. Kitchener . His principal value depends on the illustration which he affords to the comic writers ; and with fragments of the comic writers his text abounds , and on the correction and explanation of these ...
... Captain Grose and Dr. Kitchener . His principal value depends on the illustration which he affords to the comic writers ; and with fragments of the comic writers his text abounds , and on the correction and explanation of these ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 313 - I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly, as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened — yea, presently sometimes, with pinches, nips and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered — that...
Seite 313 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer ; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him.
Seite 59 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 508 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name!
Seite 270 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Seite 72 - When I wrote my Treatise about our System *, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Seite 262 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Seite 692 - This is a fine rebuke. Congreve's remains lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough, to whom he bequeathed £10,000. the accumulation of attentive parsimony. The Duchess purchased with £7,000 of the legacy a diamond necklace.
Seite 455 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve...
Seite 289 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.