Memoirs of sir William Knighton, bart. Including his correspondence, 1권 |
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66 DEAR SIR 66 MY DEAR affectionate arrived attend Bart beautiful believe beloved Blendworth bless Buonaparte Bushy House Cadiz carriage comfort Dalkeith Palace darling daughter DEAR FRIEND DEAR SIR WILLIAM dearest delighted desire despatch dined Donegal Dora Duke DUKE OF CLARENCE Duke of York Edinburgh endeavour England fatigue favour feel following letters Geach give gracious gratifying Hanover happiness heart honour hope humble interest ject jesty jesty's journey kind King King's late London look Lord Sidmouth Lord Wellesley Majesty Majesty's ment mer language messenger mind morning never o'clock obliged palace Paris passed person pleasure poor pray present Prince racter received respect Royal Lodge servant sincerely Sir Walter Sir Walter Scott Sir William Knighton tell thanks things thought Thursday tion to-day to-morrow town trust WALTER SCOTT Wellesley's wish write yesterday young
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280 페이지 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
34 페이지 - I prized every hour that went by, Beyond all that had pleased me before ; But now they are past, and I sigh, And I grieve that I prized them no more.
43 페이지 - Parent of nature ! Master of the world ! Where'er thy Providence directs, behold My steps with cheerful resignation turn. Fate leads the willing, drags the backward on. Why should I grieve, when grieving I must bear ? Or take with guilt, what guiltless I might share ? Thus let us speak, and thus let us act.
26 페이지 - I sit with sad civility, I read With honest anguish and an aching head; And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel,
65 페이지 - If it is our behaviour and address upon all occasions that prejudice people in oUr favour, or to our disadvantage, and the more substantial parts, as our learning and industry, cannot possibly appear but to few, it. is not justifiable to spend so much time in that which so very few are judges of, and utterly neglect that which falls within the censure of so many.
13 페이지 - Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil; what is to be chosen, and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the value of things, and not the common opinion of them; an equality of force, and a strength of resolution. It sets a watch over our words and deeds, it takes us up with the contemplation of the works of nature, and makes us invincible by either good or evil fortune.
32 페이지 - Knowledge is certainly one of the means of pleasure, as is confessed by the natural desire which every mind feels of increasing its ideas. Ignorance is mere privation, by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction ; and without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget. I am therefore inclined to conclude, that if nothing counteracts the natural...
27 페이지 - No names — be calm — learn prudence of a friend : I too could write, and I am twice as tall ; But foes like these — P. One flatterer's worse than all. Of all mad creatures, if the learn'd are right, It is" the slaver kills, and not the bite.
247 페이지 - Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal Stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest 10 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
247 페이지 - Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing...