Sancho; Or The ProverbialistCadell, 1816 - 181 pages |
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... imitation- this is doing what others please , not what others do - this will never satisfy my aunt . " Accord- ingly , I resolved to act more strictly in the spirit of the proverb . The first endeavour , accordingly , was , to find out ...
... imitation- this is doing what others please , not what others do - this will never satisfy my aunt . " Accord- ingly , I resolved to act more strictly in the spirit of the proverb . The first endeavour , accordingly , was , to find out ...
Page 55
... imitation was very successful , and that I did both as little and as wrong as most of them . " Now , " said I to myself , " I do at Rome as they do at Rome . " " Many were the not altogether indisputable practices which , in the ...
... imitation was very successful , and that I did both as little and as wrong as most of them . " Now , " said I to myself , " I do at Rome as they do at Rome . " " Many were the not altogether indisputable practices which , in the ...
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... imitation was false , and that I as rapidly abjured and aban- doned it . But he who so reasons has , I am disposed to think , more good - nature than ac- quaintance with me or with human nature . It is very easy - as the poet , speaking ...
... imitation was false , and that I as rapidly abjured and aban- doned it . But he who so reasons has , I am disposed to think , more good - nature than ac- quaintance with me or with human nature . It is very easy - as the poet , speaking ...
Page 58
... imitation , not to study my duty in the Bible and honestly endeavour to discharge it , but to imitate only those who were better than myself . And as the reader , perhaps , may be disposed to esteem this a very wise resolution , I will ...
... imitation , not to study my duty in the Bible and honestly endeavour to discharge it , but to imitate only those who were better than myself . And as the reader , perhaps , may be disposed to esteem this a very wise resolution , I will ...
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... imitation tended to degrade the mind . I became a coward ; and , when my safety required it , a liar . Under these circumstances , I was not likely to hold a very high place in the estimation of the boys . I was , in fact , a sort of ...
... imitation tended to degrade the mind . I became a coward ; and , when my safety required it , a liar . Under these circumstances , I was not likely to hold a very high place in the estimation of the boys . I was , in fact , a sort of ...
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Page 159 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 107 - the eleventh," said the archbishop, " and you " certainly will. — A new commandment I give " unto you, — that ye love one another.
Page 104 - ... and benevolence is more intelligible and pardonable, to arise, and thus to address his countrymen : " ' Peruvians — You are far too precipitate. Consider, I beseech you, the character and circumstances of the persons for whom this privilege is demanded. " ' In the first place, they are civilized nations — they read and write, they sleep in beds, and ride in coaches-- they wear coats and trowsers : who then will say that bark is meant for such persons as these " " 'In the second place, their...
Page 103 - Imagine him to arise amidst the tawny multi102 hide, and, with much feeling and emphasis, to state, that at least sixty millions of people de.pended upon their determination for health and life. At once, I am persuaded, the cry of that multitude would interrupt the pleadings of the orator, and one, and all, would exclaim, ' Give them bark ! give them bark ! and let not an European perish, whom it is possible for a Peruvian to save.
Page 103 - ... exclaim, • Give them bark ! give them bark ! and let not an European perish, whom it is possible for a Peruvian to save.' Thus far all would be well. But conceive, instead of the assembly being permitted to act upon this benevolent decision, some Peruvian, of an age in which the prevalence of policy or mere prudence over justice and benevolence is more intelligible and pardonable, to arise, and thus to address his countrymen: • " ' Peruvians, you are far too precipitate. Consider, I beseech...
Page 105 - Sixthly, when the time comes for the general cure of fevers and agues, 1 have no doubt but the Great Spirit will give us some sign from the mountains. " ' Such, Peruvians, are my reasons for opposing the wish of the speaker ; and whoever promotes it, or opposes me, is a madman, and an enemy both to the incas and the Great Spirit*
Page 102 - Having made my speech, I will own that I F3 101 expected, as the very smallest return, the loud acclamations of the astonished assembly. But a most profound silence ensued ; till a clergyman, who, as I then thought, looked old enough to know better, arose, and thus addressed the assembly: — " Instead, Sir, of replying directly to the reasonings of the speaker who has preceded me, I will simply put another case, and request his decision upon it. Suppose, instead of the present assembly, a thousand...
Page 100 - Heathen, convened a meeting near my aunt's mansion-house, to consider the means of extending to about sixty millions of poor idolatrous Hindoos the knowledge of Christianity. Now, whatever Religion and sound Wisdom might urge upon so plain a point, mere Prudence could not but be alarmed at an attempt, however quiet, to disturb the creed of sixty millions of people. Accordingly, having entered the assembly, I rose, and to the admiration of my aunt, made the following oration. '" I rise, Sir, to oppose...