The Life of Mr. Richard Savage, Son of the Earl RiversF. Newbery, 1777 - 298 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 31
עמוד 1
... Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness ; and that thofe whom the Splendor of their Rank , or the Extent of their Capacity , have placed upon the Summits of Human Life , have not ...
... Advantages of Nature or of Fortune have contributed very little to the Promotion of Happiness ; and that thofe whom the Splendor of their Rank , or the Extent of their Capacity , have placed upon the Summits of Human Life , have not ...
עמוד 2
... Advantages intrinfic and adventitious , and therefore eafily feparable from thofe by whom they are poffeffed , fhould very often flatter the mind with Expectation of Felicity which they cannot give , raifes no Aftonishment ; but it ...
... Advantages intrinfic and adventitious , and therefore eafily feparable from thofe by whom they are poffeffed , fhould very often flatter the mind with Expectation of Felicity which they cannot give , raifes no Aftonishment ; but it ...
עמוד 9
... Advantage to him , that an unexpected Discovery determined him to quit his Occupation . About this Time his Nurfe , who had always treated him as her own Son , died ; and it was natural for him to take care of thofe Effects which , by ...
... Advantage to him , that an unexpected Discovery determined him to quit his Occupation . About this Time his Nurfe , who had always treated him as her own Son , died ; and it was natural for him to take care of thofe Effects which , by ...
עמוד 12
... Advantage from it than the Acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele , and Mr. Wilkes , by whom he was pitied , careffed and relieved . Sir Richard Steele having declared in his Favour with all the Ardour of Benevolence which con- ftituted his ...
... Advantage from it than the Acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele , and Mr. Wilkes , by whom he was pitied , careffed and relieved . Sir Richard Steele having declared in his Favour with all the Ardour of Benevolence which con- ftituted his ...
עמוד 17
... Advantage to him were performed . His Mother was infected , among others , with the general Madness of the South Sea Traffick , and having Diligence , that the Houfe afforded him a confiderable Sum , with which he went to Leyden ...
... Advantage to him were performed . His Mother was infected , among others , with the general Madness of the South Sea Traffick , and having Diligence , that the Houfe afforded him a confiderable Sum , with which he went to Leyden ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Accufation afferted Affiftance afterwards againſt appeared becauſe Blake Circumftances Coaft Confequence confidered deferve Defign defirous diſcovered Diſtance Drake Dunciad eafily endeavoured Enemies English expoſe faid failed fame Favour fecure feemed feized fent fhall fhew fhort fhould firft firſt Fleet fome fometimes foon Friends Frigate ftill fuch fuffered fufficient fupport Gentleman's Magazine greateſt Harbour higheſt himſelf Honour Houfe Houſe Ifland imagined Increaſe Inftance Infult Intereft laft leaſt lefs likewife Lofs loft Lord Tyrconnel Mifery moft moſt Mother muft muſt neceffary Neceffity never Nombre de Dios Number obferved Occafion Paffage paffed Paffions Penfion Perfon Pinnaces pleafing pleaſed Pleaſure Poem Pounds Weight Praiſe prefent Promife Propofals Provifions publiſhed Purpoſe Queen raiſed Reaſon received Refolution reft retired Savage Savage's ſcarcely ſhe Ships ſome Spaniards ſpent ſtayed Succefs Symerons Ternate thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion Treaſure Tyrconnel uſe utmoſt Veffels Virtue whofe whoſe
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 10 - ... the inhumanity of his mother had given him a right to find every good man his father*.
עמוד 53 - ... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by...
עמוד 214 - Nor are such the only opponents of great enterprises : there are some men, of narrow views and grovelling conceptions, who, without the instigation of personal malice, treat every new attempt as wild and chimerical, and look upon every endeavour to depart from the beaten track as the rash effort of a warm imagination, or the glittering speculation of an exalted mind, that may please and dazzle for a time, but can produce no real or lasting advantage.
עמוד 89 - Bastard, he laments in a very affecting manner : ——No mother's care Shielded my infant innocence with prayer ; No father's guardian hand my youth maintain'd, Call'd forth my virtues, or from vice restrain'd.
עמוד 20 - During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance he was without lodging, and often without meat; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields or the streets allowed him; there he used to walk and form his speeches, and afterwards step into a shop, beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink, and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident.
עמוד 170 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
עמוד 69 - It was his peculiar happiness, that he scarcely ever found a stranger, whom he did not leave a friend ; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long, without obliging him to become a stranger.
עמוד 1 - IT has been observed in all ages, that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness ; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station...
עמוד 288 - ... the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils and not men who had destroyed them in such a manner.