The Mirror: A Periodical Paper Published in Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Հատոր 1J. Richardson, 1822 |
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... fortune . My parents died when I was an infant , leaving me under the guardianship of an eminent counsellor , who came annually to visit an estate he had in the neighbourhood of my father's , and of the clergyman of the parish , both of ...
... fortune . My parents died when I was an infant , leaving me under the guardianship of an eminent counsellor , who came annually to visit an estate he had in the neighbourhood of my father's , and of the clergyman of the parish , both of ...
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... fortune . I soon after set out on the tour of Europe ; and having passed five years in visiting the different courts on the continent , and examining the manners , with , at least , as much attention as the pictures and buildings of the ...
... fortune . I soon after set out on the tour of Europe ; and having passed five years in visiting the different courts on the continent , and examining the manners , with , at least , as much attention as the pictures and buildings of the ...
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... fortune , he finds it exceedingly difficult to command cash for his occasions ; that trade is so dead , and debts so ill paid at present , that he was obliged to sell some shares of bank stock to make up the price of his last purchase ...
... fortune , he finds it exceedingly difficult to command cash for his occasions ; that trade is so dead , and debts so ill paid at present , that he was obliged to sell some shares of bank stock to make up the price of his last purchase ...
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... fortune has precluded him . If the country , as will generally happen , be the place of his retirement , it will afford a variety of objects agreeable to his temper . In the prospect of a lofty mountain , an extensive plain , or the un ...
... fortune has precluded him . If the country , as will generally happen , be the place of his retirement , it will afford a variety of objects agreeable to his temper . In the prospect of a lofty mountain , an extensive plain , or the un ...
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... fortune , though that had once been consi- derable , left him at the age of twenty - five , full of the high sentiments natural , at these years , to a young gentleman brought up as the heir of an ancient fa- mily , and a large estate ...
... fortune , though that had once been consi- derable , left him at the age of twenty - five , full of the high sentiments natural , at these years , to a young gentleman brought up as the heir of an ancient fa- mily , and a large estate ...
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Էջ 251 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Էջ 276 - And, he gave it for his opinion, that, whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Էջ 123 - Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Էջ 193 - I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have, And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...
Էջ 122 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Էջ 68 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Էջ 150 - Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Էջ 122 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Էջ 68 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls, and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Էջ 229 - Father of mercies," said he, " forgive these tears; assist thy servant to lift up his soul to thee; to lift to thee the souls of thy people. My friends, it is good so to do, at all seasons it is good ; but in the days of our distress, what a privilege it is ! Well saith the sacred book, ' Trust in the Lord ; at all times trust in the Lord.