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Page 43
... civil without ceremony , and familiar without rudenefs . They are neither difagreeably forward , nor awkwardly bafhful and fhame - faced ; they fpeak to their fuperiors with as little concern , and as much eafe , though with more ...
... civil without ceremony , and familiar without rudenefs . They are neither difagreeably forward , nor awkwardly bafhful and fhame - faced ; they fpeak to their fuperiors with as little concern , and as much eafe , though with more ...
Page 46
... civil government ; and could do nothing without the confent of the principal people , who had regular affemblies for that purpose : from whence our Parliaments are derived . Europe continued , for many centuries , in the groffeft and ...
... civil government ; and could do nothing without the confent of the principal people , who had regular affemblies for that purpose : from whence our Parliaments are derived . Europe continued , for many centuries , in the groffeft and ...
Page 69
... civil look , and a rude look ; and you should look civil , as well as be fo ; for if , while you are saying a civil thing , you look gruff and furly , as moft English bump- kins do , nobody will be obliged to you for a civility that ...
... civil look , and a rude look ; and you should look civil , as well as be fo ; for if , while you are saying a civil thing , you look gruff and furly , as moft English bump- kins do , nobody will be obliged to you for a civility that ...
Page 70
... civil their address is , and how agree . ably they infinuate little civilities in their converfa- tion . They think it fo effential , that they call an honeft man and a civil man by the fame name , of honnête homme ; and the Romans ...
... civil their address is , and how agree . ably they infinuate little civilities in their converfa- tion . They think it fo effential , that they call an honeft man and a civil man by the fame name , of honnête homme ; and the Romans ...
Page 85
... civil ; but I cannot say that you endeavour much to be so . It is with difficulty that you bring yourself to do the common offices of civility , which should always feem willing and natural . Pray tell your Mama , that I really have not ...
... civil ; but I cannot say that you endeavour much to be so . It is with difficulty that you bring yourself to do the common offices of civility , which should always feem willing and natural . Pray tell your Mama , that I really have not ...
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Page 16 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 53 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!
Page 51 - ALONE, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.
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Page 55 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar.
Page 21 - Connal ? and who recount thy fathers ? Thy family grew like an oak on the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. But now it is torn from the earth.
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Page 47 - Close it not till Colma come. My life flies away like a dream! why should I stay behind?
Page 24 - Oscian, prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades thy mighty soul? Memory, son of Alpin, memory wounds the aged. Of former times are my thoughts; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal.