The British Essayists: The Looker-on

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J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1803 - English essays
 

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Page 3 - not more advantageous to mankind to be instructed in wisdom and virtue, than in politics; and to be made, good fathers, husbands, and sons, than counsellors and statesmen. This will suffice to convince us that Mr. Addison saw the advantages of this mode of publication in such a light as led him
Page 193 - but this is no reason it should not go abroad : a man should live with the world as a citizen of the world ; he may have a preference for the particular quarter, or square, or even alley in which he lives, but he should have a generous feeling for the welfare of the whole ; and
Page 175 - Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be
Page 72 - And roll us dry in gossamour and roses— My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds,
Page 72 - gainst the epilepsie) And I will eat these broths with spoons of amber, Headed with diamond and carbuncle. My foot-boy shall eat pheasants;
Page 230 - chacing a stag and come home with the horns. At least I shall not risque the experiment; I shall not like to leave her at home, and I cannot take her with me, for that would spoil my pleasure; and I hate a horse-dog woman ; I will keep no whipper-in in petticoats. I perceive therefore
Page 4 - I have endeavoured to relieve and chequer these familiar essays in a manner that I hope will be approved of; I allude to those papers, in which I treat of the literature of the Greeks, carrying down my history in a chain of anecdotes from the earliest poets to the
Page 174 - for an humble friend ; Wou'd take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that : As ' What's o'clock?' and
Page 95 - take this pisette; it is coin, it is silver from the mint of Mexico; a Spaniard dug it from the mine, a Frenchman gives it you ; put by your pride and touch it!'—' Curst be your nation,' the Castilian replied, ' I'll starve before I'll >~take it from your hands.'—' Starve then,
Page 97 - threw myself into the wherry, and entered the ship : The mariners were occupied with their work, and nobody questioned me why I was amongst them. The tide wafted us into the ocean and the night became tempestuous, the vessel laboured in the sea, and the morning brought no respite to our toil.

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