The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man: Or, Compendious Dissertations, Respecting Social and Domestic Relations and Concerns, and the Various Economy of Lifeauthor, 1818 - 421 страници |
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... greater part , quite erroneous . Tranquil times do indeed , com- paratively speaking , " furnish very few astonishing inci- dents very little to excite deep wonder , or to hold ex- pectation on the rack ; but of other and more useful ...
... greater part , quite erroneous . Tranquil times do indeed , com- paratively speaking , " furnish very few astonishing inci- dents very little to excite deep wonder , or to hold ex- pectation on the rack ; but of other and more useful ...
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... greater ardency than for any other food . And surely it betokens somewhat of the wolfish nature , that we choose to repast our minds with relations of battles , of carnage , of wide - spread human woe , in pref- erence to the pure ...
... greater ardency than for any other food . And surely it betokens somewhat of the wolfish nature , that we choose to repast our minds with relations of battles , of carnage , of wide - spread human woe , in pref- erence to the pure ...
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... greater profit . Men are appraised , and rated high or low , according to the magnitude of their property . The common question , What is he worth ? Is answered only in one way . If his estate be small , he is worth but little ; if he ...
... greater profit . Men are appraised , and rated high or low , according to the magnitude of their property . The common question , What is he worth ? Is answered only in one way . If his estate be small , he is worth but little ; if he ...
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... greater part of the candidates , fal- ling short of their expectations , endure the pangs of disappointment , and pine under the corrodings of en- vy . With some , avarice defeats its own aim . Their greediness of gain , if it impel ...
... greater part of the candidates , fal- ling short of their expectations , endure the pangs of disappointment , and pine under the corrodings of en- vy . With some , avarice defeats its own aim . Their greediness of gain , if it impel ...
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... greater numbers of the human kind are either Mahomedans or Pagans . It is only in christian countries that women rise to their proper rank , and are treated as companions and equals . For this happy improvement in their condi- tion they ...
... greater numbers of the human kind are either Mahomedans or Pagans . It is only in christian countries that women rise to their proper rank , and are treated as companions and equals . For this happy improvement in their condi- tion they ...
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Страница 285 - While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Страница 107 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Страница 95 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Страница 271 - A part how small of the terraqueous globe Is tenanted by man? the rest a waste; Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands! Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death Such is earth's melancholy map! but, far 'More sad! this earth is a true map of man: So bounded are its haughty lord's delights To woe's wide empire, where deep troubles toss.
Страница 271 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...
Страница 245 - Apart, she sigh'd; alone, she shed the tear; Then, as if breaking from a cloud, she gave Fresh light, and gilt the prospect of the grave. One day he lighter seem'd, and they forgot The care, the dread, the anguish of their lot; They spoke with cheerfulness, and seem'd to think, Yet said not so — 'Perhaps he will not sink'.
Страница 311 - Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Страница 114 - House he spoke to me (which he had never done before), and with great civility; and he ever after manifested a readiness to serve me on all occasions, so that we became great friends and our friendship continued to his death. This is another instance of the truth of an old maxim I had learned, which says, ''He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Страница 62 - O YE WHO HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF ALP ARSLAN EXALTED TO THE HEAVENS, REPAIR TO MARU, AND YOU WILL BEHOLD IT BURIED IN THE DUST!
Страница 76 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...