Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 páginas |
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... inhabitants of all the neighbouring states was excited by letters from this city , dis- tributed by every mail , many of which told tales of wo , whereof hardly a single circumstance was true , but which were every where received with ...
... inhabitants of all the neighbouring states was excited by letters from this city , dis- tributed by every mail , many of which told tales of wo , whereof hardly a single circumstance was true , but which were every where received with ...
Página 53
... inhabitants . Eight thousand mechanics , besides other people , have left the town . Every master in the city , of our branch of business , is gone . " The " some thou- sands " that were killed at that time , did not amount to three ...
... inhabitants . Eight thousand mechanics , besides other people , have left the town . Every master in the city , of our branch of business , is gone . " The " some thou- sands " that were killed at that time , did not amount to three ...
Página 54
... inhabitants as might take the disorder , and likewise for such strangers as might be infected with it . In consequence of these resolves , the Eastern Shore line of stages was stopt in the course of a few days afterwards . The alarm in ...
... inhabitants as might take the disorder , and likewise for such strangers as might be infected with it . In consequence of these resolves , the Eastern Shore line of stages was stopt in the course of a few days afterwards . The alarm in ...
Página 55
... inhabitants , that their carriages and boats should not come to the city , during the prevalence of the disor- der in Philadelphia ; and to request the practitioners of physic to report , without fail , every case of fever to which they ...
... inhabitants , that their carriages and boats should not come to the city , during the prevalence of the disor- der in Philadelphia ; and to request the practitioners of physic to report , without fail , every case of fever to which they ...
Página 56
... inhabitants , all those who should be so selfish , as to attempt to introduce any goods , wares , mer- chandise , bedding , baggage , & c . imported from , or packed up in Philadelphia , contrary to the rules prescribed by the com ...
... inhabitants , all those who should be so selfish , as to attempt to introduce any goods , wares , mer- chandise , bedding , baggage , & c . imported from , or packed up in Philadelphia , contrary to the rules prescribed by the com ...
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Página 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Página 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Página 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Página 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Página 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.