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... give a new edge , a new root to the disease . Few men , who are not confirmed in their folly , or bronzed by their vices , can bear the pen of the satirist , when held by the hand of ability , and directed with dis- cretion . So far ...
... give a new edge , a new root to the disease . Few men , who are not confirmed in their folly , or bronzed by their vices , can bear the pen of the satirist , when held by the hand of ability , and directed with dis- cretion . So far ...
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... give his children a good education , and at his decease a toler- able capital to begin the world with . Ned was educated at a respectable seminary , where it was customary to ex- hibit a play at Christmas , performed by the scholars ...
... give his children a good education , and at his decease a toler- able capital to begin the world with . Ned was educated at a respectable seminary , where it was customary to ex- hibit a play at Christmas , performed by the scholars ...
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... give pro- tection and countenance to men of notorious vicious habits . 10. The king who takes to his bosom the knave , drives the honest man from his threshold . 11. A royal sensualist is a nation's curse ; he delivers the keys of a ...
... give pro- tection and countenance to men of notorious vicious habits . 10. The king who takes to his bosom the knave , drives the honest man from his threshold . 11. A royal sensualist is a nation's curse ; he delivers the keys of a ...
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... gives her an interest in the eyes of the reviewer , which must not diminish until she has passed the or- deal of ... give her our warmest approbation , -it is thus music should be ; -when it departs from feeling , it loses all its ...
... gives her an interest in the eyes of the reviewer , which must not diminish until she has passed the or- deal of ... give her our warmest approbation , -it is thus music should be ; -when it departs from feeling , it loses all its ...
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... give him 30,000 men . 4. Russia kept her ports shut ; she had 120,000 men upon her fron- tier to defend her independence : but she was at war with England , and the Porte , and soon after with Sweden . 5. This latter power was in a ...
... give him 30,000 men . 4. Russia kept her ports shut ; she had 120,000 men upon her fron- tier to defend her independence : but she was at war with England , and the Porte , and soon after with Sweden . 5. This latter power was in a ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 233 - O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Seite 233 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Seite 182 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Seite 205 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Seite 122 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Seite 233 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother : but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him. and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Seite 233 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Seite 2 - Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.
Seite 2 - ... they might do if left entirely to themselves. There is no set purpose, no straining at a point. The observations are suggested by the passing scene — the gusts of passion come and go like sounds of music borne on the wind.
Seite 204 - The French revolutionists complained of every thing; they refused to reform any thing; and they left nothing, no nothing at all unchanged. The consequences are before us, - not in remote history; not in future prognostication; they are about us; they are upon us.