Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington, bookseller. Written by himself, in 47 letters to a friendWhittaker Treacher & Arnot, 1827 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 89
עמוד xi
... - ation which so important a concern required , I thought myself fully competent to decide , if not to general satisfaction , at least so as fully to satisfy one particular person for whom I profess to have a very PREFACE. ...
... - ation which so important a concern required , I thought myself fully competent to decide , if not to general satisfaction , at least so as fully to satisfy one particular person for whom I profess to have a very PREFACE. ...
עמוד xiii
... thoughts are plain , Whose heart is full , who never means To steal your time again . " Never should I have ventured to appear in this habit before the public , had not the following motives urged me thereto : b Many of my acquaintances ...
... thoughts are plain , Whose heart is full , who never means To steal your time again . " Never should I have ventured to appear in this habit before the public , had not the following motives urged me thereto : b Many of my acquaintances ...
עמוד 25
... thoughts of the blind , Is the pen , or the voice , that enlightens the mind ; And the more , as from nature and genius untaught Your various adventures and humour are brought , Which display all the farce of the Methodist plan , The ...
... thoughts of the blind , Is the pen , or the voice , that enlightens the mind ; And the more , as from nature and genius untaught Your various adventures and humour are brought , Which display all the farce of the Methodist plan , The ...
עמוד 35
... thought that something moved in the coffin , and on opening it , they found him alive , and his eyes open . About two years after this , the boy was again taken ill , and in a day or two after , was to all appear- ance dead ; but his ...
... thought that something moved in the coffin , and on opening it , they found him alive , and his eyes open . About two years after this , the boy was again taken ill , and in a day or two after , was to all appear- ance dead ; but his ...
עמוד 37
... thought I could do it much better than he . I communicated to a neighbouring baker my thoughts on the subject in such a manner as gave him a very good opinion of my abilities for a pie - merchant , and he prevailed on my father to let ...
... thought I could do it much better than he . I communicated to a neighbouring baker my thoughts on the subject in such a manner as gave him a very good opinion of my abilities for a pie - merchant , and he prevailed on my father to let ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquainted Alvestone appear asserted assured attended began believe bible bookseller Bristol called Christ Christian church dear friend death devil divine doubt Dr Johnson dreadful Epictetus Epicurus eyes faith father fear Francis Kirkman gentlemen give grace happened happy hear heard heart heaven holy honour HUDIBRAS imputed righteousness infidel informed John Dunton kind knew Lackington lady learned LETTER live Lord manner married master Memoirs Metho Methodists miles mind mistress Moorfields morning never night o'er observed once person Pindar pious pleased pleasure poor possessed pounds preach preachers purchased racter reason religion remarkable says sell sermon shillings SOAME JENYNS sold soon soul spirit Taunton thou thought thousand tion took town trade trifling virtue Voltaire week Wellington Wesley Wesley instituted Wesley's Wesley's chapel whole wife woman young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 344 - The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Forgive us all that is past; And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
עמוד 93 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
עמוד 105 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
עמוד 158 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
עמוד 165 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
עמוד 291 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
עמוד 240 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
עמוד 220 - Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair Amongst known cheats to play upon the square, You'll be undone — Nor can weak truth your reputation save: The knaves will all agree to call you knave. Wrong'd shall he live, insulted o'er, opprest, Who dares be less a villain than the rest.
עמוד 110 - She never feels the spleen's imagin'd pains, Nor melancholy stagnates in her veins ; She never loses life in thoughtless ease, Nor on the velvet couch invites disease ; Her home-spun dress in simple neatness lies, And for no glaring equipage she sighs : Her reputation, which is all her boast, In a malicious visit ne'er was lost ; No midnight masquerade her beauty wears, And health, not paint, the fading bloom repairs.
עמוד 50 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...