The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
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Pagina 8
... frequently made him neglect his regular occupations . In the year 1748 he was recommended by his patron to baron Salis , president of the Swiss confederacy , as tutor to his children . Theexcellent library ; which he found in the house ...
... frequently made him neglect his regular occupations . In the year 1748 he was recommended by his patron to baron Salis , president of the Swiss confederacy , as tutor to his children . Theexcellent library ; which he found in the house ...
Pagina 9
... frequently mixing with low companies , in joining in their political disputes and laughing aloud at their coarse witticisms . But these defects were amply overbalan- ced by a most excellent heart and uncommon mental perfections . A real ...
... frequently mixing with low companies , in joining in their political disputes and laughing aloud at their coarse witticisms . But these defects were amply overbalan- ced by a most excellent heart and uncommon mental perfections . A real ...
Pagina 10
... frequently rose to a kind of pious rapture , a lively sense of his dependence upon God , and of the imperfection of our knowledge of the Supreme Being , animated him from his earliest youth to his grave , and afforded him an ...
... frequently rose to a kind of pious rapture , a lively sense of his dependence upon God , and of the imperfection of our knowledge of the Supreme Being , animated him from his earliest youth to his grave , and afforded him an ...
Pagina 25
... frequently the case , a sarcastic look , and such action and in- tonation as may tend to excite ridicule and contempt , must be assumed by the speaker . But great caution should be used in the exercise of this mode ; for if an argument ...
... frequently the case , a sarcastic look , and such action and in- tonation as may tend to excite ridicule and contempt , must be assumed by the speaker . But great caution should be used in the exercise of this mode ; for if an argument ...
Pagina 35
... frequently doubling Cape Horn , and sometimes ascending the north west coast of Ameri- ca , till they nearly encompass the globe , in voyages of two or three years duration . On these whaling trips round the world , instead of wages ...
... frequently doubling Cape Horn , and sometimes ascending the north west coast of Ameri- ca , till they nearly encompass the globe , in voyages of two or three years duration . On these whaling trips round the world , instead of wages ...
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