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... traveller 236 260 Bruce , Robert 431 Bristed's American resources 445 41 Burns and Scalds , remedy for 190 Africa , travels in 121 Burns died 275 African expedition Afflictions of devils All - Fools ' Day Abercrombie , Sir Ralph ...
... traveller 236 260 Bruce , Robert 431 Bristed's American resources 445 41 Burns and Scalds , remedy for 190 Africa , travels in 121 Burns died 275 African expedition Afflictions of devils All - Fools ' Day Abercrombie , Sir Ralph ...
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... travellers to visit the monu- shown at the tomb of Juliet . Any thing ments and the ruined church , in which connected with the genius of Shakspeare , tradition lays the scene and the catas- will , I am persuaded , be acceptable to ...
... travellers to visit the monu- shown at the tomb of Juliet . Any thing ments and the ruined church , in which connected with the genius of Shakspeare , tradition lays the scene and the catas- will , I am persuaded , be acceptable to ...
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... traveller . BUFFON DIED , APRIL 16 , 1788 . On this day idle people strive to make from Paris to Dijon , the house in which At Montbard , in France , in the route as many fools as they can : the wit chief- Buffon spent the greatest part ...
... traveller . BUFFON DIED , APRIL 16 , 1788 . On this day idle people strive to make from Paris to Dijon , the house in which At Montbard , in France , in the route as many fools as they can : the wit chief- Buffon spent the greatest part ...
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... traveller's path along the deep defile . And I have heard the tempest whistling round The ivied ruins of some ancient tower , Whose crumbling walls , now bending to the ground , 36 Have shelter'd Innocence in ruthless hour , When the ...
... traveller's path along the deep defile . And I have heard the tempest whistling round The ivied ruins of some ancient tower , Whose crumbling walls , now bending to the ground , 36 Have shelter'd Innocence in ruthless hour , When the ...
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... traveller to a height , whence the glorious landscape below was visible in all the sublime va- riety of land and sea , hill and valley , ci- ty and hamlet , together with winding coast and promontories , and , in particu- lar , the ...
... traveller to a height , whence the glorious landscape below was visible in all the sublime va- riety of land and sea , hill and valley , ci- ty and hamlet , together with winding coast and promontories , and , in particu- lar , the ...
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Page 300 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 331 - ... a speckled ax was best." For something that pretended to be reason was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which if it were known would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Page 300 - Rome! my country! city of the soul! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee. Lone mother of dead empires! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, — Ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay.
Page 329 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
Page 331 - What reverses may attend the remainder is in the hand of Providence ; but, if they arrive, the reflection on past happiness enjoyed ought to help his bearing them with more resignation. To Temperance he ascribes his long-continued health, and what is still left to him of a good constitution; to Industry and Frugality, the early easiness of his circumstances and acquisition of his fortune, with all that knowledge...
Page 329 - I could go thro' a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses in a year. And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works...
Page 97 - ... for each of the company must contribute something. The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation ; on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them.
Page 299 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 329 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone thro
Page 329 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first week my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus if in the first week I could keep my first line marked T clear of spots, I...