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Σελίδα 203 - First, that for ten years the anguish of my spirit has been indescribable, the sense of my danger staring, but the consciousness of my GUILT worse, far worse than all. I have prayed, with drops of agony on my brow, trembling not only before the justice of my Maker, but even before the mercy of my Redeemer. "I gave thee so many talents, what hast thou done with them?
Σελίδα 203 - ... eyes, betray him at the first glance. The digestive organs are in the highest degree disturbed ; the sufferer eats scarcely anything, and has hardly one evacuation in a week ! his mental and bodily powers are destroyed — he is impotent.
Σελίδα 272 - February, 1769, was ordered to be expunged from the journals as ' subversive of the rights of the whole body of electors of this kingdom.
Σελίδα 204 - I cannot go through the dreary history. Suffice it to say, that effects were produced which acted on me by terror and cowardice, of pain and sudden death, not (so help me God !) by any temptation of pleasure, or expectation, or desire of exciting pleasurable sensations. On the very contrary, Mrs. Morgan and her sister will bear witness so far, as to say, that the longer I abstained, the higher my spirits were, the keener my enjoyments — till the moment, the direful moment arrived, when my pulse...
Σελίδα 64 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water ; others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill, whistling noise, as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as Dogs, and of great use in fishing ; sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth.
Σελίδα 204 - Had I but a few hundred pounds, but £200 — half to send to Mrs. Coleridge, and half to place myself in a private madhouse, where I could procure nothing but what a physician thought proper, and where a medical attendant cduld be constantly with me for two or three months (in less than that time life or death would be determined), then there might be hope. Now there is none ! ! O God ! how willingly would I place myself under Dr.
Σελίδα 25 - I shall treat you as such; and wherever I meet you, I shall pistol you, though you stood behind the king's chair; and I tell it...
Σελίδα 34 - It was exceedingly lively, swam in the centre of the stream, and appeared in excellent health and spirits. The water at one part of the river being very clear, I saw its motions distinctly under the water. On diving, it sank speedily to the bottom, swam there for a short distance, and then rose again to the surface ; it ranged the banks, guiding itself in its progress according to the impressions received by the mandibles, which appeared to me to be used by it as very delicate organs of touch. It...
Σελίδα 269 - ... against the estate of the Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever ; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm ; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Σελίδα 295 - And again, in ordinary partnerships, nothing is more clear than this, that although partners enter into a written agreement, stating the terms on which the joint concern is to be carried on, yet, if there be a long course of dealing, or a course of dealing not long, but still...