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... turned sixty , yet he was as playful as a child . The extremes of youth and age were met in him : he had the experience of the one , and the simplicity of the other . - Philips's Recollections of Curran . ACTION . Indolence is a ...
... turned sixty , yet he was as playful as a child . The extremes of youth and age were met in him : he had the experience of the one , and the simplicity of the other . - Philips's Recollections of Curran . ACTION . Indolence is a ...
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... Madame La Fayette , that a bad translator was like an ignorant footman , whose blundering messages disgraced his master by the awkwardness of the delivery , and frequently turned compliment into AFTER 31 - DINNER TABLE - TALK .
... Madame La Fayette , that a bad translator was like an ignorant footman , whose blundering messages disgraced his master by the awkwardness of the delivery , and frequently turned compliment into AFTER 31 - DINNER TABLE - TALK .
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... turned compliment into abuse , and politeness into rusticity . BORES . It is to be hoped that , with all the modern im- provements , a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores ; for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be ...
... turned compliment into abuse , and politeness into rusticity . BORES . It is to be hoped that , with all the modern im- provements , a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores ; for it is too bad that a poor wretch can be ...
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... turned builder . - Cowley . MR . PERKINS , THE DIVINE . He had a capacious head , with angles winding and roomy enough for all controversial intricacies . He would pronounce the word damn , with such an emphasis as left a doleful echo ...
... turned builder . - Cowley . MR . PERKINS , THE DIVINE . He had a capacious head , with angles winding and roomy enough for all controversial intricacies . He would pronounce the word damn , with such an emphasis as left a doleful echo ...
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... turned upon the sable consolation of the master chimney- sweeper ; and up into the midst of the burning chimney is sent one of the miserable little infants of the brush ! There is a positive prohibition of this practice , and an ...
... turned upon the sable consolation of the master chimney- sweeper ; and up into the midst of the burning chimney is sent one of the miserable little infants of the brush ! There is a positive prohibition of this practice , and an ...
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Page 34 - There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 40 - ... everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog...
Page 91 - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident...
Page 136 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 184 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 30 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake : the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter ! All his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.
Page 80 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history — with the wisest, the wittiest — with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations — a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Page 31 - Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.
Page 92 - I can say and will say, that as a peer of parliament, — as speaker of this right honourable house, — as keeper of the great seal, — as guardian of his majesty's conscience,' — as Lord High Chancellor of England, — nay, even in that character alone, in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered...
Page 28 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.