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If these things be done in the green tree , what « shall be done in the dry ? ”
Excuse me for employing a sentence of Scripture on this occasion ; I apply it very
seriously . One thing relieves me a little under the ill prospect I have of spending
my ...
If these things be done in the green tree , what « shall be done in the dry ? ”
Excuse me for employing a sentence of Scripture on this occasion ; I apply it very
seriously . One thing relieves me a little under the ill prospect I have of spending
my ...
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But if you would be entirely private , .no body shall know any thing of the matter .
Believe me ( my Lord ) no man is with more perfect acquiescence , nay with more
willing acquiescence ( not even any your own Sons of the Church ) Your ...
But if you would be entirely private , .no body shall know any thing of the matter .
Believe me ( my Lord ) no man is with more perfect acquiescence , nay with more
willing acquiescence ( not even any your own Sons of the Church ) Your ...
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I thought it could not be To , because all its reflections are on things . His
reflections are ... Some fancy , that to say , a thing is Personal , is the fame as to
say , it is Injust , not considering , that nothing can be Just that is not personal . I
am afraid ...
I thought it could not be To , because all its reflections are on things . His
reflections are ... Some fancy , that to say , a thing is Personal , is the fame as to
say , it is Injust , not considering , that nothing can be Just that is not personal . I
am afraid ...
Seite 148
I would above all things see you , and think it would comfort you to see me lo
equal - temper'd and so quiet . But pray dine here ; you may , and she know
nothing of it , for the dozes much , and we tell her of no earthly thing , left it run in
her ...
I would above all things see you , and think it would comfort you to see me lo
equal - temper'd and so quiet . But pray dine here ; you may , and she know
nothing of it , for the dozes much , and we tell her of no earthly thing , left it run in
her ...
Seite 158
What , Sir , do you bring it in as a reproach , or as a thing uncommon to a Court ,
to be without Politics ? With politics indeed the Richlieu's and fuch folks have
brought about great things in former days ; but what are they , Sir , who , without ...
What , Sir , do you bring it in as a reproach , or as a thing uncommon to a Court ,
to be without Politics ? With politics indeed the Richlieu's and fuch folks have
brought about great things in former days ; but what are they , Sir , who , without ...
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Seite 111 - Parnell is in an ill state of health. " Pardon me if I add a word of advice in the poetical way.
Seite 8 - Catechism, as a kind of hint of the order of time in which they are to be taken. The old man then lay down...
Seite 98 - I look upon you as a spirit entered into another life ', as one just upon the edge of immortality; where the passions and affections must be much more exalted, and where you ought to despise all little views, and all mean retrospects. Nothing is worth your looking back ; and therefore look forward, and make (as you can) the world look after you. But take care that it be not with pity, but with esteem and admiration.
Seite 67 - I faid to you in mine about the Monument, was intended only to quicken, not to alarm you. It is not worth your while to know what I meant by it : but when I fee you, you mall.
Seite 180 - Horace their companion, though he had been in arms on the side of Brutus ; and allow me to remark, it was out of the suffering party too that they favoured and distinguished Virgil.
Seite 26 - ... radiations ; and when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different scene. It is...
Seite 97 - ... our declining years, the drums and rattles of ambition, and the dirt and bubbles of avarice.
Seite 75 - Spencer ; and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was dean of Westminster.
Seite 97 - Christian all. You may now begin to think your manhood was too much a puerility; and you will never suffer your age to be but a second infancy.