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... be blest With some new Joy cuts off what we poleft ; Strange Cozenage ! none
wou'd live past Years again , Yet all hope Pleasure in what yet remain , And from
the Dregs of Life think to receive What the first sprightly Running could not give .
... be blest With some new Joy cuts off what we poleft ; Strange Cozenage ! none
wou'd live past Years again , Yet all hope Pleasure in what yet remain , And from
the Dregs of Life think to receive What the first sprightly Running could not give .
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Academy according acts againſt alſo appear Arts Attraction Author becauſe Bodies Calculation callid Cartes caſe Cauſe Character Charles City common conſequently cou'd Country demonſtrated Diſcoveries Earth England Engliſh fame Father firſt five follows France French Friend gave Genius give given greater greateſt himſelf Hiſtory Honour human hundred Ideas infinitely kind King known laſt Laws leaſt leſs LETTER Light living Locke Lord Mankind Manner Matter mean meet merely Mind Moon moſt Motion muſt Name Nature never Number oblig'd Opinion Paris Perſons Philoſophers Pieces Planets Poet Power Principle prove Quakers Rays Reaſon regard Reign Religion reſt ſame ſays ſelf ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſince Sir Iſaac Newton ſome Soul ſuch Syſtem Taſte themſelves theſe Thing thoſe thou thought thouſand tion Tranſlation Truth twas twenty univerſal uſe whole whoſe World wou'd Writer written
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219. oldal - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But diffring far in figure and in face. Here stood Ill-nature like an ancient maid...
176. oldal - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
188. oldal - The language is everywhere that of men of honour, but their actions are those of knaves — a proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human nature, and frequented what we call polite company.
172. oldal - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
45. oldal - If one religion only were allowed in England, the Government would very possibly become arbitrary ; if there were but two, the people would cut one another's throats; but as there are such a multitude, they all live happy and in peace.
219. oldal - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
89. oldal - Islands. Be this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could destroy cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than the real one ; but, then, they were not acquainted with the circulation of the blood, the weight of the air, the laws of motion, light, the number of our planets, &c. And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's " Categories, " on the universals a parte rei, or such-like nonsense, was looked upon as a prodigy.
218. oldal - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
22. oldal - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
207. oldal - We must resign! heaven his great soul does claim In storms as loud as his immortal fame; His dying groans, his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile: About his palace their broad roots are tost Into the air; so Romulus was lost! New Rome in such a tempest missed her king, And from obeying fell to worshipping.
Bibliográfiai információk
| Cím | Letters Concerning the English Nation Letters Concerning the English Nation, Charles Davis Letters Concerning the English Nation: By Mr. de Voltaire, John Lockman |
| Szerző | Voltaire |
| Közreműködők | Charles Davis, A. Lyon |
| Kiadó | C. Davis ... and A. Lyon, 1733 |
| Eredeti forrása | Oxfordi Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2007. szept. 5. |
| Terjedelem | 253 oldal |
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