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... body , and wither into a skeleton . Her recoveries were often as sudden as her decays , insomuch that she There was as great a change in the hill would revive in a moment out of a wasting of money - bags , and the heaps of money ...
... body , and wither into a skeleton . Her recoveries were often as sudden as her decays , insomuch that she There was as great a change in the hill would revive in a moment out of a wasting of money - bags , and the heaps of money ...
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... body , and indications of vice , not criminal in them- restlessness of thought , and is never easy selves . Extinguish vanity in the mind , and in any one place , when she thinks there is you naturally retrench the little superflui ...
... body , and indications of vice , not criminal in them- restlessness of thought , and is never easy selves . Extinguish vanity in the mind , and in any one place , when she thinks there is you naturally retrench the little superflui ...
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... body ; and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive from others , to make an ex- ample of any particular criminal . In short I have so much of a drawcansir in me , that I shall pass over a single foe to charge whole armies ...
... body ; and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive from others , to make an ex- ample of any particular criminal . In short I have so much of a drawcansir in me , that I shall pass over a single foe to charge whole armies ...
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... body of the law is no less incumbered with superfluous members , that are like Virgil's army , which he tells us was so crowded , many of them had not room to use their weapons . This prodigious society of men may be divided into the ...
... body of the law is no less incumbered with superfluous members , that are like Virgil's army , which he tells us was so crowded , many of them had not room to use their weapons . This prodigious society of men may be divided into the ...
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... body , or rather of mind , by the study of physic . I no sooner began to peruse books of this nature , but I found ... body in its pro- per poise , so it is , that I find myself in a sick and languishing condition . My com plexion is ...
... body , or rather of mind , by the study of physic . I no sooner began to peruse books of this nature , but I found ... body in its pro- per poise , so it is , that I find myself in a sick and languishing condition . My com plexion is ...
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Page 237 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Page 237 - 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.
Page 236 - There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through, one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk. I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented.
Page 173 - In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the 'squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year ; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation. Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the country, are very fatal to the ordinary people ; who are so used to be dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate, as of a man of learning ;...
Page 172 - ... in which the whole village meet together with their best faces, and in their cleanliest habits, to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in...
Page 236 - Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life ; and passing from one thought to another, " Surely," said I, " man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Page 164 - When the gentlemen of the country come to see him, he only shows me at a distance. As I have been walking in his fields I have observed them stealing a sight of me over an hedge, and have heard the 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...
Page 237 - Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Page 172 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if by chance he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servant to them.
Page 236 - Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which, added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred. As I was counting the arches, the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it. ' But tell me further,' said he, 'what thou discoverest on it.