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... present , Fifth , Edition of this work . Since its first publication several works of a similar nature have appeared ; and more than one , have been so well received , that in justice to the active spirit of my publisher , I have ...
... present , Fifth , Edition of this work . Since its first publication several works of a similar nature have appeared ; and more than one , have been so well received , that in justice to the active spirit of my publisher , I have ...
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... present , than can be urged against them . They are of a class which was well known to the Ancients . The Greeks were not without them , and the Romans loved them under the title of Varia Eruditio ; and the Orientalists more than either ...
... present , than can be urged against them . They are of a class which was well known to the Ancients . The Greeks were not without them , and the Romans loved them under the title of Varia Eruditio ; and the Orientalists more than either ...
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... which some writers have done this compilement , by referring to it , has exhilarated the zealous labour which the present improved Edition , has necessarily brought with it . ADDENDA . Vol . I. page 8. Insert at the PREFACE . Xi.
... which some writers have done this compilement , by referring to it , has exhilarated the zealous labour which the present improved Edition , has necessarily brought with it . ADDENDA . Vol . I. page 8. Insert at the PREFACE . Xi.
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... present writers have for ever banished . Of LIBRARIES , the following anecdotes seem most interesting , as they mark either the affec- tion , or the veneration , which civilized men have ever felt for these perennial repositories of ...
... present writers have for ever banished . Of LIBRARIES , the following anecdotes seem most interesting , as they mark either the affec- tion , or the veneration , which civilized men have ever felt for these perennial repositories of ...
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... present day . It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors , since though they preserve the worthless , they necessarily defend the good . Some collectors place all their fame on the view of 10 ...
... present day . It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors , since though they preserve the worthless , they necessarily defend the good . Some collectors place all their fame on the view of 10 ...
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Page 503 - 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, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 51 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 502 - I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Page 246 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and...
Page 316 - I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers and directors. Save but our army ! and let Jove...
Page 496 - Elias Ashmole writes in his diary — " May 13, 1653. E 2 My father Backhouse (an astrologer who had adopted him for his son, a common practice with these men) lying sick in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstan's church, and not knowing whether he should live or die, about eleven of the clock, told me in syllables the true matter of the philosopher's stone, which he bequeathed to me as a legacy.
Page 134 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 146 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.
Page 464 - Were I to tell you that I do not mean to marry, I might say less than I intend ; and were I to tell you that I do mean to marry, I might say more than it is proper for you to know; therefore I give you an answer, ANSWERLESS !
Page 40 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.