The Spectator: ...J. Tonson, 1718 |
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... Manner . Whether or no the Ladies had retreated hither in order to rally their Forces I cannot tell ; but the next Night they came in fo great a Body to the Opera , that they out - numbered the Enemy . THIS Account of Party - Patches ...
... Manner . Whether or no the Ladies had retreated hither in order to rally their Forces I cannot tell ; but the next Night they came in fo great a Body to the Opera , that they out - numbered the Enemy . THIS Account of Party - Patches ...
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... Manner to demean himfelf . The King , who had a quick Difcerning , relieved him from the Oppreffion he was under ; and with the most beautiful Complacency faid to him , " Sir , do not add ⚫ to that . Load of Sorrow I fee in your ...
... Manner to demean himfelf . The King , who had a quick Difcerning , relieved him from the Oppreffion he was under ; and with the most beautiful Complacency faid to him , " Sir , do not add ⚫ to that . Load of Sorrow I fee in your ...
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... Manner , every one is in fome Degree a Mater of that Art which is generally diftin- guished by the Name of Phifiognomy ; and naturally forms to himself the Character or Fortune of a Stranger , from the Features and Lineaments of his ...
... Manner , every one is in fome Degree a Mater of that Art which is generally diftin- guished by the Name of Phifiognomy ; and naturally forms to himself the Character or Fortune of a Stranger , from the Features and Lineaments of his ...
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... Manner as if they had told him , there was . fomething in his Looks which fhewed him to be strong , active , piercing , and of a royal Descent . Whether or no the different Motions of the animal Spirits in different Paffions , may have ...
... Manner as if they had told him , there was . fomething in his Looks which fhewed him to be strong , active , piercing , and of a royal Descent . Whether or no the different Motions of the animal Spirits in different Paffions , may have ...
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... Manners in the Servants of " Great - Britain . I am a Man that have travelled and feen many Nations , but have for feven Years laft paft refided conftantly in London , or within twenty Miles of it : In this Time I have contracted a ...
... Manners in the Servants of " Great - Britain . I am a Man that have travelled and feen many Nations , but have for feven Years laft paft refided conftantly in London , or within twenty Miles of it : In this Time I have contracted a ...
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Сторінка 277 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Сторінка 110 - Bible to be given him next day for his encouragement, and sometimes accompanies it with a flitch of bacon to his mother. Sir Roger has likewise added five pounds a year to the clerk's place; and that he may encourage the young fellows to make themselves perfect in the...
Сторінка 96 - He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man. He makes a May-fly to a miracle, and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods. As he is a good-natured officious fellow, and very much esteemed upon account of his family, he is a welcome guest at every house, and keeps up a good correspondence among all the gentlemen about him. He carries a...
Сторінка 147 - ... for any man under a duke; but told him at the same time, that it might be altered with a very few touches, and that he himself would be at the charge of it. Accordingly they got a painter, by the knight's directions, to add a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a little aggravation of the features to change it into the Saracen's Head.
Сторінка 46 - ... hours which we here employ in virtue or in vice, the argument redoubles upon us for putting in practice this method of passing away our time. When a man has but a little stock to improve, and has opportunities of turning it all to good account, what shall we think of him...
Сторінка 89 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.
Сторінка 120 - Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise.
Сторінка 145 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several times Foreman of the Petty Jury.
Сторінка 144 - ... former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.
Сторінка 277 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them.