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... tion of the whole work , which is evidently planned with greater care than its predecessor . If we were to take the circumstances into consideration , we should say that it was planned in concert with Steele , that the charac- ter of ...
... tion of the whole work , which is evidently planned with greater care than its predecessor . If we were to take the circumstances into consideration , we should say that it was planned in concert with Steele , that the charac- ter of ...
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... tion . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing , though accustomed to com- mand men in the utmost degree below him ...
... tion . The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures , in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing , though accustomed to com- mand men in the utmost degree below him ...
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... tion and knowledge has been in the female world . As other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion , he will tell you when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court , such a woman was ...
... tion and knowledge has been in the female world . As other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion , he will tell you when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court , such a woman was ...
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... upper end of the Methoughts . Rather Methought , for Methinks ( though the composi tion seems strange ) is a verb , of which methought is the preterperfect . - H . hall was the Magna Charta , with the Act of No. 3. ] 19 SPECTATOR .
... upper end of the Methoughts . Rather Methought , for Methinks ( though the composi tion seems strange ) is a verb , of which methought is the preterperfect . - H . hall was the Magna Charta , with the Act of No. 3. ] 19 SPECTATOR .
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... tion . Amidst all the evils that threaten me , I will look up to him for help , and question not but he will either avert them , or turn them to my advantage . Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die , I ...
... tion . Amidst all the evils that threaten me , I will look up to him for help , and question not but he will either avert them , or turn them to my advantage . Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die , I ...
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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...