The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Com- mon . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Com- mon . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
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... figure , es- pecially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
... figure , es- pecially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
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... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Eolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Eolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
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... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . I dis- patched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual tacitur- nity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one ...
... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . I dis- patched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual tacitur- nity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one ...
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... figure of a coronet on the back part of it . I was so transported with the thought of such an amour , that I plied her from one room to another with all the gallantries I could invent ; and at length brought things to so happy an issue ...
... figure of a coronet on the back part of it . I was so transported with the thought of such an amour , that I plied her from one room to another with all the gallantries I could invent ; and at length brought things to so happy an issue ...
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Сторінка 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Сторінка 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Сторінка 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Сторінка 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Сторінка 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Сторінка 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.