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... tells me he is resolved to take , unless I support him under the loss of that charming perjured woman . Poor Lavinia presses as much for consola- tion on the other side , and is reduced to such an extremity of despair by the inconstancy ...
... tells me he is resolved to take , unless I support him under the loss of that charming perjured woman . Poor Lavinia presses as much for consola- tion on the other side , and is reduced to such an extremity of despair by the inconstancy ...
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... tells me , would not have troubled him if he had given it to the poor . In short , there is scarce a calamity in human life that has not produced me a letter . It is , indeed , wonderful to consider , how men are able to raise ...
... tells me , would not have troubled him if he had given it to the poor . In short , there is scarce a calamity in human life that has not produced me a letter . It is , indeed , wonderful to consider , how men are able to raise ...
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... tells me , that there are already three thousand of them distributed every day : so that if I allow twenty readers to every paper , which I look upon as a modest computation , I may reckon about threescore thousand 20 disciples in ...
... tells me , that there are already three thousand of them distributed every day : so that if I allow twenty readers to every paper , which I look upon as a modest computation , I may reckon about threescore thousand 20 disciples in ...
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... telling me one day that he was afraid I was melancholy , I thought it was high time for me to be gone , and accordingly took new lodgings that very night . About a week after , I found my jolly landlord , who , as I said before , was an ...
... telling me one day that he was afraid I was melancholy , I thought it was high time for me to be gone , and accordingly took new lodgings that very night . About a week after , I found my jolly landlord , who , as I said before , was an ...
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... telling stories of spirits and apparitions . Upon my opening the door the young women broke off their discourse , but my landlady's daughters telling them that it was nobody but the Gentleman , ( for that is the name that I go by in the ...
... telling stories of spirits and apparitions . Upon my opening the door the young women broke off their discourse , but my landlady's daughters telling them that it was nobody but the Gentleman , ( for that is the name that I go by in the ...
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Strona 68 - The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Strona 67 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Strona 68 - But tell me further, said he, what thou discoverest on it. I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Strona 82 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow ; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Strona 60 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself or sends his servants to them.
Strona 78 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Strona 70 - I could discover nothing in it: but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Strona 61 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews it seems is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Strona 57 - I have observed in several of my papers that my friend Sir Roger, amidst all his good qualities, is something of a humorist ; and that his virtues, as well as imperfections, are, as it were, tinged by a certain extravagance which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of...
Strona 67 - man is but a shadow and life a dream.' Whilst I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand.