Annual Register, Volume 30

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Edmund Burke
Longmans, Green, 1790 - History
 

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Page 164 - And rofy health, fhall foon lamented die. For them the viewlefs forms of air obey Their bidding heed**, and at their beck repair. They know what fpirit brews the ftormful day, And heartlefs, oft like moody madnefs ftare To fee the phantom train their fecret
Page 166 - where beneath the ihow'ry weft The mighty kings of three fair realms are laid|| : Once foes, perhaps, together now they reft. No flaves revere them, and no wars invade: Yet frequent now, at midnight's folemn hour, The rifted mounds their yawning cells unfold, And forth the
Page 201 - to them, all other things are but imaginary. This was well underftood by the people of Rome, who, contrary to the maxims of Sparta and Spain, by general naturalizations, liberty of confcience, and immunitye of government, far more effectually and advantageoufly conquered and kept the world, than ever they did, or poffibly
Page 250 - of his right hand. Some truft in chariots and fome in horfes : but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God. They are bound and have fallen : but we are
Page 2 - the idolatry of Mecca. It was the duty of a man and a citizen to impart the doftrine of falvation, to refcue his country from the dominion of fin and error. The energy of a mind
Page 2 - of want, he avoided the paths of ambition and avarice; and till the age of forty, he lived with innocence, and would have died without a name. The unity of God is an idea
Page 133 - it to have been defigned for the poor ; and the poor, in their turn, think it calculated chiefly for the rich. An old acquaintance of mine, who omitted no opportunity of doing good, -difcourfed with the barber who fhaved him on his manner of fpending the fabbath (which was not quite as • it
Page 151 - for one, that has in paft times been the handmaid of beauty, and therefore as merit has taken modefty into her fervice, I would recommend to ignorance to put bafhfulnefs into full pay and employment. Politenefs is a charming propenfity, and I would wifh the fine ladies to indulge it, if it were only by way of
Page 120 - than a foot from the furface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places, on the face and breaft, and found it to contain a human body wrapped in cerecloth. Upon removing what covered the face, they difcovered the features, and particularly the eyes, in
Page 184 - and poor ? A little longer let me live, I pray, A little longer hobble round thy door. Nor could'ft thou bear to fee thy fervant bleed, Tho' weeping pity has decreed his fate ; Yet, ah ! in vain, thy heart for life

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