A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... nature too strong for me to think of injuring him in a point where the happiness of his life is so materi- ally concerned . You cannot be insensible of his goodness , or my obligations ; and suffer me to observe , madam , that were I ...
... nature too strong for me to think of injuring him in a point where the happiness of his life is so materi- ally concerned . You cannot be insensible of his goodness , or my obligations ; and suffer me to observe , madam , that were I ...
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... nature ; the next but one came from his afflicted governor * , to acquaint his unhappy father that he had lost the most dutiful and best of sons , the pride and hope of his declining age . He bore the stroke like a wise man and a ...
... nature ; the next but one came from his afflicted governor * , to acquaint his unhappy father that he had lost the most dutiful and best of sons , the pride and hope of his declining age . He bore the stroke like a wise man and a ...
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... nature ; and whether it shall please God to restore you to your health , or put a period to your life , this merciful afflic- tion of his , which allows you time for repentance and ad- dresses for mercy , will be of advantage to you ...
... nature ; and whether it shall please God to restore you to your health , or put a period to your life , this merciful afflic- tion of his , which allows you time for repentance and ad- dresses for mercy , will be of advantage to you ...
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... nature , and so understood , is no light undertaking , I have for some time perceived my health par- ticularly unequal to that service . Unable to perform the duty of attendance in the House of Commons , unsatisfied to let any personal ...
... nature , and so understood , is no light undertaking , I have for some time perceived my health par- ticularly unequal to that service . Unable to perform the duty of attendance in the House of Commons , unsatisfied to let any personal ...
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... nature into tyranny . Be careful , O my prince ! hear them not , fly from their de- ceits ; you are in the succession to a throne , from whence no evil can be imputed to you , but all good must be con- veved from you . Your father is ...
... nature into tyranny . Be careful , O my prince ! hear them not , fly from their de- ceits ; you are in the succession to a throne , from whence no evil can be imputed to you , but all good must be con- veved from you . Your father is ...
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Page 514 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Page 129 - I beg pardon that my paper is not finer, but I am forced to write from a coffee-house, where I am attending about business. There is a dirty crowd of busy faces all around me, talking of money ; while all my ambition, all my wealth, is love!
Page 513 - ... observe, that he might know them again; but having too many objects to learn at once, he forgot many of them; and (as he said) at first learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
Page 402 - This was presently reported to the Duke of Buckingham, and a little after, to the king, who were both very curious to know the circumstance of...
Page 128 - How art thou, oh my soul, stolen from thyself ! how is all thy attention broken ! my books are blank paper, and my friends intruders. I have no hope of quiet but from your pity. To grant it, would make more for your triumph. To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty. If you would consider aright...
Page 192 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST?' Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the gospel, which has brought life and immortality to light.
Page 114 - And now, sir, believe me, when I assure you, I never did nor ever will, on any pretence whatsoever, take more than the stated and customary fees of my office. I might keep the contrary practice concealed from the world, were I capable of it, but I could not from myself. And I hope I shall always fear the reproaches of my own heart more than those of all mankind.
Page 330 - This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.
Page 175 - Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Page 374 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be severally hanged by your necks until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your souls.