The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Том 4H. Lintot, 1754 |
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... Sense , those Additions to Men's Names would be , as they were first intended , fignificant of their Worth , and not their Perfons ; fo that in fome Cafes it might be proper to fay , The Man is dead , but his Excellency will never die ...
... Sense , those Additions to Men's Names would be , as they were first intended , fignificant of their Worth , and not their Perfons ; fo that in fome Cafes it might be proper to fay , The Man is dead , but his Excellency will never die ...
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... Sense of the Art of being intimate and fa- miliar . It is often faid , fuch a one cannot ftand the Mention of fuch a Circumftance ; if he cannot , I am fure it is for want of Difcourfe , or a worse Reason , that any Companion of his ...
... Sense of the Art of being intimate and fa- miliar . It is often faid , fuch a one cannot ftand the Mention of fuch a Circumftance ; if he cannot , I am fure it is for want of Difcourfe , or a worse Reason , that any Companion of his ...
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... Sense , Humour and Learning , which formerly were looked upon as Qualifications for a Writer . If a Man of Wit , who died forty Years ago , were to rife from the Grave on Purpofe , How would he be able to read this Letter ? And after he ...
... Sense , Humour and Learning , which formerly were looked upon as Qualifications for a Writer . If a Man of Wit , who died forty Years ago , were to rife from the Grave on Purpofe , How would he be able to read this Letter ? And after he ...
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... Sense about him , his Tongue is apt to utter Things out of meer Gaiety of Heart which may difplease his best Friends . Who then would truft himself to the Power of Wine , without faying more against it , than that it raises the ...
... Sense about him , his Tongue is apt to utter Things out of meer Gaiety of Heart which may difplease his best Friends . Who then would truft himself to the Power of Wine , without faying more against it , than that it raises the ...
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... Sense in what they are about to say ? And , whether it be adapted to the Time when , the Place where , and the Perfon to whom it is spoken ? FOR the utter Extirpation of thefe Orators and Story - Tellers , which I look upon as very ...
... Sense in what they are about to say ? And , whether it be adapted to the Time when , the Place where , and the Perfon to whom it is spoken ? FOR the utter Extirpation of thefe Orators and Story - Tellers , which I look upon as very ...
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Сторінка 109 - ... over ; and as they were passing by me into the garden, I asked them to let me be one of their company. The gentleman of the house told me, ' if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.
Сторінка 287 - And now when I thought most of peace and honour, Thy hand is heavy upon me, and hath humbled me according to Thy former loving-kindness, keeping me still in Thy fatherly school, not as a bastard, but as a child. Just are Thy judgments upon me for my sins, which are more in number than the sands of the sea, but have no proportion to Thy mercies; for what are the sands of the sea ? Earth, heavens, and all these are nothing to Thy mercies.
Сторінка 231 - The rest of the jury, upon the delivery of the sword to their foreman, drew all of them together as one man, and saluted the bench with such an air as signified the most resigned submission to those who commanded them, and the greatest magnanimity to execute what they should command.
Сторінка 116 - I have made some necessary variations both in the tube and the fluid it contains. In the first place I ordered a tube to be cast in a planetary hour, and took care to seal it hermetically, when the Sun was in conjunction with Saturn. I then took the proper precautions about the fluid, which is a compound of two...
Сторінка 104 - I have seen the most amiable become the most deformed, and she that appeared one of the Graces immediately turned into one of the Furies. I humbly conceive the great cause of this evil may proceed from a false notion the ladies have of what we call a modest woman.
Сторінка 287 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Сторінка 119 - I have taken my text for this discourse : we should be careful not to overshoot ourselves in the pursuits even of virtue. Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
Сторінка 116 - The church thermometer, which I am now to treat of, is supposed to have been invented in the reign of Henry the Eighth, about the time when that religious Prince put some to death for owning the Pope's supremacy, and others for denying transubstantiation. I do not find, however, any great use made of this instrument...
Сторінка 184 - Nobody ever knew what this meant ; but the green and red dragon so amused the people, that the doctor lived very comfortably upon them. About the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was...