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... called forth , the following is perhaps the most judicious and comprehensive : " While the circle of mental cultivation was thus rapidly widening in France , a similar progress was taking place , upon a larger scale , and under still ...
... called forth , the following is perhaps the most judicious and comprehensive : " While the circle of mental cultivation was thus rapidly widening in France , a similar progress was taking place , upon a larger scale , and under still ...
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... called one work , by the re- ference they all have to the same common design . This design , too , was so well digested from the first , that nothing oc- curs afterwards ( when the characters come out and shew themselves at full Mr ...
... called one work , by the re- ference they all have to the same common design . This design , too , was so well digested from the first , that nothing oc- curs afterwards ( when the characters come out and shew themselves at full Mr ...
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... called the town , well , and had a considerable fund of wit and humour ; but his wit was often forced , and his humour ungraceful ; not but his style would give this appearance to each , being at once incorrect and heavy . His graver ...
... called the town , well , and had a considerable fund of wit and humour ; but his wit was often forced , and his humour ungraceful ; not but his style would give this appearance to each , being at once incorrect and heavy . His graver ...
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... called in at St. Jamess , where I found the whole outward room in a buzz of politics . The speculations were but very indifferent towards the door , but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the room , and were so very much ...
... called in at St. Jamess , where I found the whole outward room in a buzz of politics . The speculations were but very indifferent towards the door , but grew finer as you advanced to the upper end of the room , and were so very much ...
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... Quarter Session on his expositions of " a passage in the Game Act . " Sir John was a barrister , and besides having been Recorder of the * Nash's Worcestershire , which is called after him . ' All who know 10 [ No. 2 . SPECTATOR .
... Quarter Session on his expositions of " a passage in the Game Act . " Sir John was a barrister , and besides having been Recorder of the * Nash's Worcestershire , which is called after him . ' All who know 10 [ No. 2 . SPECTATOR .
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Page 82 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 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.
Page 222 - The noble earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trusty tree ; An arrow of a cloth-yard long Up to the head drew he...
Page 290 - I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer told me. that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table ; for which reason he desired a particular friend of his at the university to find him out a clergyman rather of plain sense than much learning, of a good aspect, a clear voice, a sociable temper, and, if possible, a man that understood a little of back-gammon.
Page 289 - My chief companion, when Sir Roger is diverting himself in the woods or the fields, is a very venerable man, who is ever with Sir Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem ; so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependant.
Page 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.
Page 435 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him...
Page 291 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Page 288 - You see the goodness of the master even in the old house-dog, and in a gray pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services, though he has been useless for several years.
Page 7 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...