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Some have fancied that envy has a certain magical force in it , and that the eyes of the envious have by their fafcination blafted the enjoyments of the happy . Sir Francis Bacon fays , Some have been fo curious as to remark the times ...
Some have fancied that envy has a certain magical force in it , and that the eyes of the envious have by their fafcination blafted the enjoyments of the happy . Sir Francis Bacon fays , Some have been fo curious as to remark the times ...
Pagina 31
When I read the several dates of the tombs , of some that died yesterday , and fome fix hundred years ago , I confider that great day when we fhall all of us be contemporaries , and make our appearance together . ocean .
When I read the several dates of the tombs , of some that died yesterday , and fome fix hundred years ago , I confider that great day when we fhall all of us be contemporaries , and make our appearance together . ocean .
Pagina 40
Will Honeycomb told me , in the fofteft manner he could , that there were some ladies ( but for your comfort , fays Will , they are not thofe of the most wit ) that were offended at the liberties I had taken with the opera and the ...
Will Honeycomb told me , in the fofteft manner he could , that there were some ladies ( but for your comfort , fays Will , they are not thofe of the most wit ) that were offended at the liberties I had taken with the opera and the ...
Pagina 50
Four o'clock in the morning ' SIR , I fome of your late fpeculations , I find some fketches towards an hiftory of clubs : but you feem to me to fhew them in fomewhat too ludicrous a light . I have well weighed that matter , and think ...
Four o'clock in the morning ' SIR , I fome of your late fpeculations , I find some fketches towards an hiftory of clubs : but you feem to me to fhew them in fomewhat too ludicrous a light . I have well weighed that matter , and think ...
Pagina 51
... in conjunction with infidels , to be palpably against our good - will and liking , and , for all Monfieur Palmquist , a most dangerous innova' tion ; and we are by no means yet fure , that some ' people are not at the bottom on't .
... in conjunction with infidels , to be palpably against our good - will and liking , and , for all Monfieur Palmquist , a most dangerous innova' tion ; and we are by no means yet fure , that some ' people are not at the bottom on't .
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