The Praise of Hell: Or, A Discovery of the Infernal World. Describing the Advantages of that Place, with Regard to Its Situation, Antiquity, and Duration. With a Particular Account of Its Inhabitants: Their Dresses, Customs, Manners, Occupations and Diversions. In which are Included, the Laws, Constitution and Government of Hell. With Notes Historical and Critical to Explain the Whole. Tr. from the French ...A. Manson, R. Durfey, 1765 - 232 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiii
... reign in hell C H A P. XIII . The edifying difcourfes held by the damned СНА P. XIV . The Jurprising purity of manners that prevails 218 in hell 219 CHAP . CHA P. XV . The Surprising humility of the inhabitants CONTENTS .
... reign in hell C H A P. XIII . The edifying difcourfes held by the damned СНА P. XIV . The Jurprising purity of manners that prevails 218 in hell 219 CHAP . CHA P. XV . The Surprising humility of the inhabitants CONTENTS .
الصفحة xiv
... frugality which reigns there 223 CHAP . XVII . And incomparable charity 224 CHA P. XVIII . Excellent union and concord kept in hell The conclufion 226 230 THE " 66 ¤XX * XXXXXXXXXX 淡淡 INTRODUCTION . O H xir CONTENTS .
... frugality which reigns there 223 CHAP . XVII . And incomparable charity 224 CHA P. XVIII . Excellent union and concord kept in hell The conclufion 226 230 THE " 66 ¤XX * XXXXXXXXXX 淡淡 INTRODUCTION . O H xir CONTENTS .
الصفحة 72
... reigns ? I answer , in a word , it is Purgatory . A country , as it is faid , inhabited by children who have died yet unregenerate : by which you may conceive it is the habitation of inno- cence and candour ; perfections , it is much ...
... reigns ? I answer , in a word , it is Purgatory . A country , as it is faid , inhabited by children who have died yet unregenerate : by which you may conceive it is the habitation of inno- cence and candour ; perfections , it is much ...
الصفحة 102
... reign of Marcus Aurelius , by whom he was fent as gover- nor into Egypt . He arrived to this exalted station entirely through his merit , and that wit which we fee fhine through all his writings , in which there is to be found the moft ...
... reign of Marcus Aurelius , by whom he was fent as gover- nor into Egypt . He arrived to this exalted station entirely through his merit , and that wit which we fee fhine through all his writings , in which there is to be found the moft ...
الصفحة 115
... reign . He was a prince of no religion , very de- bauched , and fo cruel , that he caufed the bellies of fourteen of his pages to be cut open , for to know which of them had eaten a melon which was ftolen out of a garden which he had ...
... reign . He was a prince of no religion , very de- bauched , and fo cruel , that he caufed the bellies of fourteen of his pages to be cut open , for to know which of them had eaten a melon which was ftolen out of a garden which he had ...
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الصفحة 25 - Enter ye in at the strait gate : for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it...
الصفحة 55 - Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones : the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
الصفحة 105 - Thofe raife the fong divine, and thefe advance In meafur'd fteps to form the folemn dance. There Orpheus, graceful in his long attire, In feven divifions ftrikes the founding lyre ; Acrofs the chords the quivering quill he flings, ooo Or with his flying fingers fweeps the firings.
الصفحة 147 - go from thy fpirit ? or whither fhall I flee from " thy prefence ? If I afcend up into heaven thou * * art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold thou " art there. If I take the wings of the morning, " and dwell in the uttermoft parts of the fea ; " even there fhall thy hand lead me, and thy right
الصفحة 69 - Livid and meagre were her looks, her eye In foul diftorted glances turn'd awry ; A hoard of gall her inward parts...
الصفحة 77 - Now floating to the sea with downward course, Now pointing upward to its ancient source : Such was the work, so intricate the place, That scarce the workman all its turns could trace ; And Daedalus was puzzled how to find 261 The secret ways of what himself design'd.
الصفحة 69 - And fpread a greennefs o'er her canker'd breaft ; Her teeth were brown with ruft ; and from her tongue, In dangling drops, the ftringy poifon hung, She never fmiles but when the wretched weep, Nor lulls her malice with a moment's fleep. Reftlefs in fpite : while, watchful to deftroy, * * She pines and fickens at another's joy ; Foe to herfelf, diftreffing and diftreft, She bears her own tormenter in her breaft.
الصفحة 109 - Breaks forth victorious in her native light; Then we? the chofen few, Elyfium gain, And here expatiate on the blifsful plain. Both thofe thin airy throngs thy eyes behold, I04S When o'er their heads a thoufand years have roll'd, In mighty crowds to yon...
الصفحة 109 - With those dark vices that she knew before : For this the souls a various penance pay, To purge the taint of former crimes away.
الصفحة 77 - While circling streams their former banks survey, And waters past succeeding waters see: Now floating to the sea with downward course, Now pointing upward to its ancient source. Such was the work, so intricate the place, That scarce the workman all its turns could trace: And Daedalus was puzzled how...