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She certainly has connected herself with that party , but the reason and the motive are , because the Empress Queen has embraced the opposite party . - When one party , therefore , takes one side , be the subject matter ever so ...
She certainly has connected herself with that party , but the reason and the motive are , because the Empress Queen has embraced the opposite party . - When one party , therefore , takes one side , be the subject matter ever so ...
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In Persia , where the rose blooms all the year round , -where the sun shines and the zephyrs blow , there may be some reason in the wish for length of years . But in England , in this land of fogs , damps , and perpetual rains , surely ...
In Persia , where the rose blooms all the year round , -where the sun shines and the zephyrs blow , there may be some reason in the wish for length of years . But in England , in this land of fogs , damps , and perpetual rains , surely ...
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Be very careful to moderate your passions , especially of choler and anger ; it inflames the blood , disorders the brain , and , for the time , exterminates not only religion , but common reason ; it puts the mind into confusion ...
Be very careful to moderate your passions , especially of choler and anger ; it inflames the blood , disorders the brain , and , for the time , exterminates not only religion , but common reason ; it puts the mind into confusion ...
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But Mademoiselle d'Aissé ( the name given to her , for what reason we are not informed ) , had , in addition to her personal charms , received from nature such an excellent disposition , that neither precept nor example produced upon ...
But Mademoiselle d'Aissé ( the name given to her , for what reason we are not informed ) , had , in addition to her personal charms , received from nature such an excellent disposition , that neither precept nor example produced upon ...
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... immediately shut the door.world ; for which reason Isessé imagined that Isessé , surprised at this unexpected movement , was at a loss how to act , when the porter appeared , and told him that he was expected in the first floor .
... immediately shut the door.world ; for which reason Isessé imagined that Isessé , surprised at this unexpected movement , was at a loss how to act , when the porter appeared , and told him that he was expected in the first floor .
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Page 16 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 30 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased.
Page 30 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 5 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 61 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 86 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 62 - What if the sun Be centre to the world ; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...
Bibliographic information
| Title | La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1 History of women |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1810 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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