Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller. Written by himself, in 47 letters to a friendWhittaker Treacher & Arnot, 1827 |
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... received for an answer , that they had already too much waste paper , and would not increase it by keep- ing Lackington's Memoirs : and some kindly added , " You need not be in haste to purchase , as in the course of the Christmas ...
... received for an answer , that they had already too much waste paper , and would not increase it by keep- ing Lackington's Memoirs : and some kindly added , " You need not be in haste to purchase , as in the course of the Christmas ...
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... take this opportunity of thanking my friends , cus- tomers , and the public , for their candid reception of my volume ; the sale of which , and the encomiums I have received on the subject , both by letter and XX PREFACE TO THE SECOND.
... take this opportunity of thanking my friends , cus- tomers , and the public , for their candid reception of my volume ; the sale of which , and the encomiums I have received on the subject , both by letter and XX PREFACE TO THE SECOND.
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... received scurrilous abusive letters from several of Mr Wesley's people , merely because I have exposed their ridiculous principles and absurd practices ; but more particularly for having pulled off the hypocritical veil from some of ...
... received scurrilous abusive letters from several of Mr Wesley's people , merely because I have exposed their ridiculous principles and absurd practices ; but more particularly for having pulled off the hypocritical veil from some of ...
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... receiving from gentlemen , in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland , who are pleased to honour me with their approbation and thanks , encouraged me to read the whole over with more at- tention , to correct such typographical ...
... receiving from gentlemen , in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland , who are pleased to honour me with their approbation and thanks , encouraged me to read the whole over with more at- tention , to correct such typographical ...
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... received from the discovery , and the honour I acquired for the courage I possessed in making it , has , I believe , had much influence on me ever since ; as I cannot recollect that in any one instance I have ever observed the least ...
... received from the discovery , and the honour I acquired for the courage I possessed in making it , has , I believe , had much influence on me ever since ; as I cannot recollect that in any one instance I have ever observed the least ...
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Страница 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
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Страница 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Страница 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Страница 291 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Страница 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Страница 220 - Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest.
Страница 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.
Страница 50 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...