The works of Henry Fielding, ed. with a biogr. essay by L. Stephen, Volumen3

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Página 456 - Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 'not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Página 260 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 7 - ... who, if he was ignorant of the laws of England, was yet well versed in the laws of nature. He perfectly well understood that fundamental principle so strongly laid down in the institutes of the learned Rochefoucault, by which the duty of self-love is so strongly enforced, and every man is taught to consider himself as the centre of gravity, and to attract all things thither. To speak the truth plainly, the justice was never indifferent in a cause but when he could get nothing on either side.
Página 276 - I was never in such a fright in my born days, whereof I am hardly come to myself yet. I believe he is somewhere about the house yet ; for I never saw him go out.
Página 280 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Página 4 - By examining carefully the several gradations which conduce to bring every model to perfection, we learn truly to know that science in which the model is formed : as histories of this kind, therefore, may properly be called models of HUMAN LIFE, so, by observing minutely the several incidents which tend to the catastrophe or completion of the whole, and the minute causes whence those incidents are produced, we shall best be instructed in this most useful of all arts, which I call the ART of LIFE.
Página 539 - Do you not know, doctor, that this is as corrupt a nation as ever existed under the sun ? And would you think of governing such a people by the strict principles of honesty and morality...

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