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Pagina 12
... less credit , and offering the fairest encouragement to an English writer to pursue the same track . The genius , the humor , the good - nature of Goldsmith , seemed to fit him for the task : he had , moreover , himself been a traveller ...
... less credit , and offering the fairest encouragement to an English writer to pursue the same track . The genius , the humor , the good - nature of Goldsmith , seemed to fit him for the task : he had , moreover , himself been a traveller ...
Pagina 20
... less than the circuit of half a mile ; and yet you know that animals of these colors are nowhere to be found except in the wild imagination of Europe . * From these circumstances in their buildings , and from the dismal looks of the ...
... less than the circuit of half a mile ; and yet you know that animals of these colors are nowhere to be found except in the wild imagination of Europe . * From these circumstances in their buildings , and from the dismal looks of the ...
Pagina 23
... less pride of each other . Your nose - borers , feet - swathers , tooth- stainers , eyebrow pluckers , would all want bread , shou.d their neighbors want vanity . These vanities , however , employ much fewer hands in China than in ...
... less pride of each other . Your nose - borers , feet - swathers , tooth- stainers , eyebrow pluckers , would all want bread , shou.d their neighbors want vanity . These vanities , however , employ much fewer hands in China than in ...
Pagina 41
... less noble than their appearance . You know that nature has indulged me with a person by no means agreeable ; yet are they too generous to object to my homely appearance ; they feel no repugnance at my broad face and flat nose ; they ...
... less noble than their appearance . You know that nature has indulged me with a person by no means agreeable ; yet are they too generous to object to my homely appearance ; they feel no repugnance at my broad face and flat nose ; they ...
Pagina 42
... less than two shillings of their money every week . But her civility did not rest here ; for at parting , being desirous to know the hour and perceiving my watch out of order , she kindly took it to be repaired by a relation of her own ...
... less than two shillings of their money every week . But her civility did not rest here ; for at parting , being desirous to know the hour and perceiving my watch out of order , she kindly took it to be repaired by a relation of her own ...
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Pagina 233 - Fire and fury, no more of thy stupid explanations, cried he. — Go and inform her we have got company. Were that Scotch hag to be for ever in my family, she would never learn politeness, nor forget that absurd poisonous accent of hers, or testify the smallest specimen of breeding or high life; and yet it is very surprising too, as I had her from a parliament man, a friend of mine, from the highlands, one of the politest men in the world; but that's a secret.
Pagina 463 - Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,' And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Pagina 469 - I was born in Shropshire, my father was a labourer, and died when I was five years old; so I was put upon the parish. As he had been a wandering sort of a man, the parishioners were not able to tell to what parish I belonged...
Pagina 234 - Poor Jack, cries he, a dear goodnatured creature, I know he loves me ; but I hope, my dear, you have given orders for dinner ; you need make no great preparations neither, there are but three of us, something elegant and little will do ; a turbot, an ortolan, or a . Or what do you think my dear...
Pagina 294 - Such reflections only served to make the miller unhappy; he discontinued his former assiduity, he was quite disgusted with small gains, and his customers began to forsake him. Every day he repeated the wish, and every night laid himself down in order to dream. Fortune, that was for a long time unkind, at last, however, seemed to smile upon his distresses and indulged him with the wished-for vision.
Pagina 471 - Our crew was carried into Brest, and many of them died because they were not used to live in a jail ; but for my part, it was nothing to me, for I was seasoned. One night...
Pagina 469 - I lived an easy kind of a life for five years, I only wrought ten hours in the day, and had my meat and drink provided for my labour. It is true, I was not suffered to stir...
Pagina 473 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life ; but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God ! I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in this world, that I know of, but the French and the justice of peace.
Pagina 113 - ... with affection and esteem; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made either by real or fictitious distress; in a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands, before we were taught the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing.
Pagina 113 - ... table. He told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of Taffy in the sedan-chair, was sure to set the table in a roar.