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Pagina 9
Good folks , said he , I perceive that I am the unfortunate cause of all this good humour . It is true , I may have faults in abundance , but I shall never be induced to reckon my want of a swelled face among the number .
Good folks , said he , I perceive that I am the unfortunate cause of all this good humour . It is true , I may have faults in abundance , but I shall never be induced to reckon my want of a swelled face among the number .
Pagina 15
During this illness Alcander watched him with all the anxiety of fondness , and brought his mistress to join in those amiable offices of friendship . The sagacity of the physicians , by this means , soon discovered the cause of their ...
During this illness Alcander watched him with all the anxiety of fondness , and brought his mistress to join in those amiable offices of friendship . The sagacity of the physicians , by this means , soon discovered the cause of their ...
Pagina 16
the cause of their patient's disorder ; and Alcander , being apprized of their discovery , at length extorted a confession from the reluctant dying lover . It would but delay the narrative to describe the conflict between love and ...
the cause of their patient's disorder ; and Alcander , being apprized of their discovery , at length extorted a confession from the reluctant dying lover . It would but delay the narrative to describe the conflict between love and ...
Pagina 22
... made them his study ; he thought he might oppose the physics of his country , and yet still be a good citizen : he defended our countrymen , wrote in their favour , and at last , as he had truth on his side , carried his cause .
... made them his study ; he thought he might oppose the physics of his country , and yet still be a good citizen : he defended our countrymen , wrote in their favour , and at last , as he had truth on his side , carried his cause .
Pagina 23
It is certain that the preference which this royal scholar gave to Maupertuis was the cause of Voltaire's disagreement with him . Voltaire could not bear to see a man , whose talents he had no great opinion of , preferred before him as ...
It is certain that the preference which this royal scholar gave to Maupertuis was the cause of Voltaire's disagreement with him . Voltaire could not bear to see a man , whose talents he had no great opinion of , preferred before him as ...
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Pagina 70 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Pagina 71 - ... to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose : the manner then is to wait patiently till, by ineffectual and impotent struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then...
Pagina 76 - What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. " There will come a time, when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.
Pagina 69 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Pagina 70 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb.
Pagina 71 - I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Pagina 42 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Pagina 78 - Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Pagina 72 - The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Pagina 76 - To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Select British Classics, Volume 3 Select British Classics |
| Uitgever | J. Conrad, 1804 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de New York Public Library |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 2 nov 2006 |
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