Addison's humorous essays, selected from the 'Spectator'.1863 |
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... knight desiring them not to let me see them , for that I hated to be stared at . I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family , because it consists of sober and stayed persons ; for as the knight is the best master in the world , he ...
... knight desiring them not to let me see them , for that I hated to be stared at . I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family , because it consists of sober and stayed persons ; for as the knight is the best master in the world , he ...
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... knight , with a mixture of the father and master of the family , tempered the inquiries after his own af- fairs with several kind questions relating to themselves . This humanity and good nature engages every body to him , so that when ...
... knight , with a mixture of the father and master of the family , tempered the inquiries after his own af- fairs with several kind questions relating to themselves . This humanity and good nature engages every body to him , so that when ...
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... talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to - morrow ( for it was Saturday night ) told us , the Bishop of St Asaph in the morning , and Dr South in the afternoon . 24 ADDISON'S HUMOROUS ESSAYS .
... talking of came up to us ; and upon the knight's asking him who preached to - morrow ( for it was Saturday night ) told us , the Bishop of St Asaph in the morning , and Dr South in the afternoon . 24 ADDISON'S HUMOROUS ESSAYS .
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Joseph Addison. which his guest discovered at sight of the good old knight . After the first salutes were over , Will desired Sir Roger to lend him one of his servants to carry a set of shuttlecocks he had with him in a little box , to a ...
Joseph Addison. which his guest discovered at sight of the good old knight . After the first salutes were over , Will desired Sir Roger to lend him one of his servants to carry a set of shuttlecocks he had with him in a little box , to a ...
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... knight seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass , and himself in a man- ner shut out of his own house , upon the death of his mother ordered all the apartments to be flung open , and exorcised by his chaplain , who lay in ...
... knight seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass , and himself in a man- ner shut out of his own house , upon the death of his mother ordered all the apartments to be flung open , and exorcised by his chaplain , who lay in ...
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Сторінка 60 - ... good use of it, and to pay the several legacies, and the gifts of charity, which he told him he had left as quit-rents upon the estate. The captain truly seems a courteous man, though he says but little. He makes much of those whom my master loved, and shows great kindness to the old house-dog, that you know my poor master was so fond of.
Сторінка 50 - Shovel ! a very gallant man.' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner : ' Dr. Busby ! a great man ! he whipped my grandfather ; a very great man...
Сторінка 19 - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Сторінка 22 - I am the more at ease in Sir Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for, as the Knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him; by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
Сторінка 17 - His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, tut his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Сторінка 32 - I AM always very well pleased with a country Sunday, and think, if keeping holy the seventh day were only a -human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind.
Сторінка 29 - The ideas of goblins and spirits have really no more to do with darkness than light; yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives, but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Сторінка 21 - To conclude his character, where women are not concerned, he is an honest worthy man. I cannot tell whether I am to account him whom I am next to speak of as one of our company, for he visits us but seldom ; but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself. He is a clergyman, a very philosophic man, of general learning, great sanctity of life, and the most exact good breeding.
Сторінка 71 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures, and are more adapted to the sex than to the species. The toilet is their great scene of business, and the right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives.
Сторінка 18 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty ; keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed.