The Caledonian bee; or, A select collection of interesting extracts from modern publications1811 |
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
againſt Aleppo alfo almoſt appear attended bagnio beautiful becauſe befide caufe Charlotte Corday Chineſe clofe Cochin-china confequence confiderable converfation court daugh daughter defire domeftic drefs eſtabliſhment eyes faid falt fame father fays fecret feemed feen feized feldom fent fervants ferve fervice feven feveral fhall fhew fhould fide filk fince fing fingle firft firſt fituation flaves fmall fome fometimes foon ftill ftone ftranger fuch fuffered fufficient fuperior fupplied fuppofed fupport Harem heart Henry VII herſelf himſelf houfe houſe huſband intereft itſelf Jacobins juft juftice king ladies laft leaft lefs Louis XIV mafter moft moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary obferved occafion paffed paffion perfon pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent preferve prifon reafon refpect reft ſhe Sillery ſmall ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thofe Thomas Paine thoſe thou tion ufual uſed vifit whofe wife women young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 51 - At first they lay a floor of this kind of tempered mortar on the ground, upon which they deposit a layer of eggs, and upon this a...
الصفحة 204 - As the faltering gentleman, with looks on the ground, that speaks just to be heard, and hates hypocrisy : or the loud, confident creature, that keeps it up with Mrs. Mantrap, and old Miss Biddy Buckskin, till three in the morning; ha, ha, ha ! Marlow.
الصفحة 53 - ... and roaring in little coves round about) darts forth from the reedy coverts all at once, on the...
الصفحة 51 - ... about four feet perpendicular above the water. I knew them to be the nests of the crocodile, having had a description of them before; and now expected a furious and general attack, as I saw several large crocodiles swimming abreast of these buildings. These nests being so great a curiosity to me, I was determined at all events immediately to land and examine them.
الصفحة 51 - Still keeping close along shore, on turning a point or projection of the river bank, at once I beheld a great number of hillocks or small pyramids, resembling hay-cocks, ranged like an encampment along the banks.
الصفحة 54 - ... ascending from his nostrils like smoke. At other times, when swollen to an extent ready to burst, his head and tail lifted up, he spins or twirls round on the surface of the water.
الصفحة 263 - ... more reasonable mothers — in a word, better citizens. We should then love them with true affection, because we should learn to respect ourselves ; and the peace of mind of a worthy man would not be interrupted by the idle vanity of his wife, nor the babes sent to nestle in a strange bosom, having never found a home in their mother's.
الصفحة 261 - ... of one half of its members, that does not provide for honest, independent women, by encouraging them to fill respectable stations? But in order to render their private virtue a public benefit, they must have a civil existence in the state, married or single; else we shall continually see some worthy woman, whose sensibility has been rendered painfully acute by undeserved contempt, droop like 'the lily broken down by a plow-share.'* It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization!
الصفحة 262 - ... let them not expect to be valued when their beauty fades, for it is the fate of the fairest flowers to be admired and pulled to pieces by the careless hand that plucked them. In how many ways do I wish, from the purest benevolence, to impress this truth on my sex; yet I fear that they will not listen to a truth that...
الصفحة 106 - I fcarcely knew which way to direct niy fteps. Love, however, which, can illumine the darkeft hours of life, prompted my return to Olivia, that I might tell her how much my misfortune attached her to my heart. I revealed to the dear charmer my true fituation, and concluded by aiking her advice refpecting my future conduct.