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... fortune , whose triumphs we are about to record , we would point as guides for all who , similarly circumstanced , may aspire to follow in the same honourable path . Their lives are lessons that cannot be read without profit ; nor are ...
... fortune , whose triumphs we are about to record , we would point as guides for all who , similarly circumstanced , may aspire to follow in the same honourable path . Their lives are lessons that cannot be read without profit ; nor are ...
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... fortune . He was resolved to try , he said , whether , although she had thrown him among the dust , he should not be able to rise up by his own efforts . His ardour for study only grew the greater as his difficulties increased . For six ...
... fortune . He was resolved to try , he said , whether , although she had thrown him among the dust , he should not be able to rise up by his own efforts . His ardour for study only grew the greater as his difficulties increased . For six ...
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... years , during which his time was chiefly occupied in the manage- ment of that gentleman's property . At last , at the general peace in 1763 , he returned to Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some D 3 HEYNE . 29.
... years , during which his time was chiefly occupied in the manage- ment of that gentleman's property . At last , at the general peace in 1763 , he returned to Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some D 3 HEYNE . 29.
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George Lillie Craik. Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some time before his arrival in that city , the Professorship of Eloquence in the University of Gottingen had become vacant , by the death of the celebrated John Mathias ...
George Lillie Craik. Dresden ; and here ended his hard fortunes . Some time before his arrival in that city , the Professorship of Eloquence in the University of Gottingen had become vacant , by the death of the celebrated John Mathias ...
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... fortunes had given him . It is grati- fying indeed to have to tell , that even after he had become a courtier , and was living in intimate fami- liarity with the emperor , he took a journey to his native village , purchased the cottage ...
... fortunes had given him . It is grati- fying indeed to have to tell , that even after he had become a courtier , and was living in intimate fami- liarity with the emperor , he took a journey to his native village , purchased the cottage ...
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Page 305 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 136 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 307 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 227 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 23 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 225 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 83 - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a christian, might do for mine...
Page 224 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
Page 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 228 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.