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... defign , a Gentleman had written predictions , and two or three other pieces in my name , which had rendered it famous through all parts of Europe ; and by an inimitable spirit and humour , raised it to as high a pitch of reputation as ...
... defign , a Gentleman had written predictions , and two or three other pieces in my name , which had rendered it famous through all parts of Europe ; and by an inimitable spirit and humour , raised it to as high a pitch of reputation as ...
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... defign of fuch narrations , which , I humbly pre- fume , fhould be principally intended for the ufe of politic perfons , who are fo public - fpirited as to neglect their own affairs to look into tranfactions of ftate . Now these ...
... defign of fuch narrations , which , I humbly pre- fume , fhould be principally intended for the ufe of politic perfons , who are fo public - fpirited as to neglect their own affairs to look into tranfactions of ftate . Now these ...
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... defign of bringing part of our troops into the field , at the latter end of this month , is now altered to a refolu- tion of marching towards the camp about the twentieth of the next . There hap- pened the other day , in the road of ...
... defign of bringing part of our troops into the field , at the latter end of this month , is now altered to a refolu- tion of marching towards the camp about the twentieth of the next . There hap- pened the other day , in the road of ...
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... defign to have notices from all public affem- blies , I fhall take upon me only inde- corums , improprieties , and negligences , in fuch as fhould give us better examples . After this declaration , if a fine lady thinks fit to giggle at ...
... defign to have notices from all public affem- blies , I fhall take upon me only inde- corums , improprieties , and negligences , in fuch as fhould give us better examples . After this declaration , if a fine lady thinks fit to giggle at ...
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... defign of Chloe's pic- ture fhows , to me , great mastery in the painter ; for nothing could be better imagined than the drefs he has given her of a ftraw - hat and a ribband , to represent that fort of beauty which enters the heart ...
... defign of Chloe's pic- ture fhows , to me , great mastery in the painter ; for nothing could be better imagined than the drefs he has given her of a ftraw - hat and a ribband , to represent that fort of beauty which enters the heart ...
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Page 285 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 442 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
Page 206 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
Page 604 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page 371 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Page 604 - I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Page 442 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 442 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
Page 515 - The gentleman of the house told me, if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country. I accepted the offer, and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening, and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips, to which the gardeners, according to their usual custom, had given such high titles and appellations of honour. I was very much...
Page 389 - To this he added, that, for his part, he could not wish to see the Turk driven out of Europe, which he believed could not but be prejudicial to our woollen manufacture.