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... his wages . The time was now fast approaching when I could serve him , but he was doomed to know no favourable change of fortune : he fell sick , and died at Cork . known my parents , did not see me without kind INTRODUCTION . vii.
... his wages . The time was now fast approaching when I could serve him , but he was doomed to know no favourable change of fortune : he fell sick , and died at Cork . known my parents , did not see me without kind INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... fortune to interest his benevolence . My little history was not untinctured with melancholy , and I laid it fairly before him his first care was to console ; his second , which he cherished to the last moment of his existence , was to ...
... fortune to interest his benevolence . My little history was not untinctured with melancholy , and I laid it fairly before him his first care was to console ; his second , which he cherished to the last moment of his existence , was to ...
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... fortune . On examining into the nature of my literary attainments , he found them absolutely nothing : he heard , however , with equal surprise and pleasure , that amidst the grossest ignorance of books , I had made a very considerable ...
... fortune . On examining into the nature of my literary attainments , he found them absolutely nothing : he heard , however , with equal surprise and pleasure , that amidst the grossest ignorance of books , I had made a very considerable ...
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... Fortune can make kings of pedants , and pedants of kings . Dodwell , however , understands it lite- rally . Hæc sanè cum Quintiliani causa dicat , çix est quin Q. talem ostendant è rhetore nimirum " nobilem , senatorium , consularem ...
... Fortune can make kings of pedants , and pedants of kings . Dodwell , however , understands it lite- rally . Hæc sanè cum Quintiliani causa dicat , çix est quin Q. talem ostendant è rhetore nimirum " nobilem , senatorium , consularem ...
Страница xxix
... fortune . He was lucky ; and , with luck , a man may be any thing ; handsome , and witty , and wise , and noble , and high - born , and a member of the senate . Who does not see in this a satirical exaggeration ? Wisdom , beauty , and ...
... fortune . He was lucky ; and , with luck , a man may be any thing ; handsome , and witty , and wise , and noble , and high - born , and a member of the senate . Who does not see in this a satirical exaggeration ? Wisdom , beauty , and ...
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Страница 478 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Страница 204 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes.
Страница 218 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Страница xlii - Atque alii quorum comoedia prisca virorum est, Si quis erat dignus describi quod malus ac fur, Quod moechus foret aut sicarius aut alioqui Famosus, multa cum libertate notabant. Hinc omnis pendet Lucilius, hosce secutus Mutatis tantum pedibus numerisque, facetus, Emunctae naris, durus componere versus.
Страница lxii - The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original.
Страница xiii - ... with favours more substantial : little collections were now and then made, and I have received sixpence in an evening. To one who had long lived in the absolute want of money, such a resource seemed a Peruvian mine : I furnished myself by degrees with paper, &c. and what was of more importance, with books of geometry, and of the higher branches of algebra, which I cautiously concealed. Poetry, even at this time, was no amusement of mine : it was subservient to other purposes ; and I only had...
Страница 218 - They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Страница 105 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Страница vii - Brixham, and thither I went when little more than thirteen. • My master, whose name was Full, though a gross and ignorant, was not an ill-natured man; at least, not to me ; and my mistress used me with unvarying kindness ; moved perhaps by my weakness and tender years. In return, I did what I could to requite her, and my good will was not overlooked.
Страница 342 - Fond fool ! six feet shall serve for all thy store, And he that cares for most shall find no more.