A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 3John Walker Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... never stoop to a willingness to flatter . --- Give me leave , madam , to remark , that the connection subsisting between your husband and myself , is of a nature too strong for me to think of injuring him in a point where the happiness ...
... never stoop to a willingness to flatter . --- Give me leave , madam , to remark , that the connection subsisting between your husband and myself , is of a nature too strong for me to think of injuring him in a point where the happiness ...
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... never can mend . I wish you good success with all my heart . I have always loved good projects , but have always found them to miscarry . I am , Sir , with true esteem for your good intentions , Your most obedient humble servant . P.S. ...
... never can mend . I wish you good success with all my heart . I have always loved good projects , but have always found them to miscarry . I am , Sir , with true esteem for your good intentions , Your most obedient humble servant . P.S. ...
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... never yet beheld . The blackness of their visages only serves to cover a horrid paleness , caused by the noxious qualities of the mineral they are employed in procuring . As they , in general , consist of malefactors condemned for life ...
... never yet beheld . The blackness of their visages only serves to cover a horrid paleness , caused by the noxious qualities of the mineral they are employed in procuring . As they , in general , consist of malefactors condemned for life ...
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... never imputed that choice to any merit of my own , but have always understood that mark of the favour of the University to me , to have been the effect of services , which the ability and good fortune of my ancestors enabled them to ...
... never imputed that choice to any merit of my own , but have always understood that mark of the favour of the University to me , to have been the effect of services , which the ability and good fortune of my ancestors enabled them to ...
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... never withdraw myself from my attachments to that society . For besides personal obligations to myself , which I must always acknowledge , I know of what consequence the University is , and ought to be , to the good order and to the ...
... never withdraw myself from my attachments to that society . For besides personal obligations to myself , which I must always acknowledge , I know of what consequence the University is , and ought to be , to the good order and to the ...
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Page 109 - Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed ; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disjoined by an easy separation. It was a principle among the ancients, that acute diseases are from heaven, and chronical from ourselves; the dart of death indeed falls from heaven, but we poison it by our own misconduct; to die Is the fate of man, but to die with lingering anguish is generally his...
Page 129 - ... some similitude of the object admired. Thus, my dear, am I every day to improve from so sweet a companion. Look up, my fair one, to that Heaven which made thee such ; and join with me to implore its influence on our tender innocent hours, and beseech the author of love to...
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 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 106 - ... have contributed. Whether this be more than a pleasing dream, or a just opinion of separate spirits, is, indeed, of no great importance to us, when we consider ourselves as acting under the eye of GOD : yet...
Page 513 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Page 513 - He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully 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 he learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day.
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 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 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.