The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in Prose and Verse:: Consisting of Original Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, Dialogues, Letters, Characters, &c. &c. In Two Volumes, المجلد 1J. Budd, 1804 |
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... horse or mare , Then you ' re cut off from so much care ; If death deprives you of your wife , Why , there's an end to all your strife , Or should she crown your brow with horns , Bear them with patience like your corns : They've ...
... horse or mare , Then you ' re cut off from so much care ; If death deprives you of your wife , Why , there's an end to all your strife , Or should she crown your brow with horns , Bear them with patience like your corns : They've ...
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... Horses . In France good for every thing , or for nothing . In Spain noble . In Italy handsome and good . In Germany dull and heavy . In Diseases . The French subject to the p- ; The Spaniard to the king's evil . Italian to the plague ...
... Horses . In France good for every thing , or for nothing . In Spain noble . In Italy handsome and good . In Germany dull and heavy . In Diseases . The French subject to the p- ; The Spaniard to the king's evil . Italian to the plague ...
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... horse to chance - the faithful horse , that scarcely left the form of his hoof behind . The shades of night , and the shades of a still darker wood , enveloped me from every view but the view of Heaven . The next day I traversed the ...
... horse to chance - the faithful horse , that scarcely left the form of his hoof behind . The shades of night , and the shades of a still darker wood , enveloped me from every view but the view of Heaven . The next day I traversed the ...
الصفحة 55
... horses , richly caparisoned ; the bridles glittered with precious stones , that shone even in the lustre of the sun ; and the very horses themselves seemed to glory in the pride of their riders . I am indebted for the little that I know ...
... horses , richly caparisoned ; the bridles glittered with precious stones , that shone even in the lustre of the sun ; and the very horses themselves seemed to glory in the pride of their riders . I am indebted for the little that I know ...
الصفحة 58
... horse : what they gained by the sword , they maintain by the sword ; and if ever they yield it up , it will be with their breath . Hungary is the richest country in the universe : look at her sur- face - look at her vine , look at her ...
... horse : what they gained by the sword , they maintain by the sword ; and if ever they yield it up , it will be with their breath . Hungary is the richest country in the universe : look at her sur- face - look at her vine , look at her ...
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الصفحة 306 - At home, by ill temper. She was a professed enemy to flattery, And was seldom known to praise or commend ; BUT The talents in which she principally excelled, Were difference of opinion, and discovering flaws and imperfections. She was an admirable economist, And, without prodigality, Dispensed plenty to every person in her family ; BUT Would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle. She sometimes made her husband happy with her good qualities ; BUT Much more frequently miserable — with her many...
الصفحة 248 - Arriving at the mount of St. Mary's in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, and carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the Spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation...
الصفحة 378 - I have regularly and attentively perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that this volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written.
الصفحة 280 - ... deduced from the nature and reason of things. We believe the existence of an Almighty Being from the consideration of his wonderful works, from those innumerable celestial and glorious bodies, and from their wonderful order and harmony. "We have also spent some time in viewing those wonders which are to be seen in the minute part of the world, and that with great pleasure and satisfaction.
الصفحة 305 - HERE lie the bodies of Thomas Bond, and Mary his wife. She was temperate, chaste, and charitable; BUT, she was proud, peevish, and passionate. She was an affectionate wife, and a tender mother...
الصفحة 311 - ... that many of you will find it difficult to reconcile my appearance yesterday with my character. Many of you, I know, will say that my moments would have been better employed in praying for the unhappy man than in attending him to the fatal tree, and that perhaps curiosity was the only cause that converted me into a spectator on that occasion. But those who ascribe that uncharitable motive to me, are under a mistake. I...
الصفحة 157 - Threni Hibernici ; or Ireland sympathizing with England and Scotland, in a sad lamentation for the loss of their Josiah...
الصفحة 290 - Some years ago the Shawano Indians, being obliged to remove from their habitations, in their way took a Muskohge warrior, known by the name of old Scrany, prisoner; they bastinadoed him severely, and condemned him to the fiery torture.
الصفحة 327 - ... or a man wounded. At another time, five boys fetched in four cows. They that stood on the hills, called to one in a house in the valley, crying, " Shoot, Anthony ; " but Anthony thought it good to sleep in a whole skin, and durst not look out, so that afterwards it grew into a proverbial jeer, from the defendants to the assailants, " Shoot, Anthony." The rebels having spent much time and ammunition, and some men, and yet being as far from hopes of taking the castle as the first day they came...
الصفحة 379 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those...