England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social History of the Times, Volume 2Ward & Downey, 1891 |
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Pagina 3
... frequently poised it or supported it with their shoulders from Godalming almost to Petworth ; and the nearer we approached the Duke of Somerset's house the more inaccessible it seemed to be . The last nine miles of the way cost us six ...
... frequently poised it or supported it with their shoulders from Godalming almost to Petworth ; and the nearer we approached the Duke of Somerset's house the more inaccessible it seemed to be . The last nine miles of the way cost us six ...
Pagina 10
... frequently stuck fast till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each to draw them out one by one . After this description will you ? -- can you ? -believe me , when I tell you ...
... frequently stuck fast till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each to draw them out one by one . After this description will you ? -- can you ? -believe me , when I tell you ...
Pagina 17
... frequently loaded . These baskets were , however , never great favourites , although their difference of price caused them to be frequently well filled . The wheels of these old carriages were large , massive , ill - formed , and ...
... frequently loaded . These baskets were , however , never great favourites , although their difference of price caused them to be frequently well filled . The wheels of these old carriages were large , massive , ill - formed , and ...
Pagina 18
... frequently the case , they stopped at home . A journey to or from Newcastle to London was in those days a doubtful and hazardous expedition - not unlike setting out in quest of the north - west passage . Many persons would , when they ...
... frequently the case , they stopped at home . A journey to or from Newcastle to London was in those days a doubtful and hazardous expedition - not unlike setting out in quest of the north - west passage . Many persons would , when they ...
Pagina 30
... frequent than during this last month , ' but in the main the stories they relate are without doubt perfectly genuine ones . In many cases , the last resource of some gaming peer or gentleman of quality encompassed by a sea of troubles ...
... frequent than during this last month , ' but in the main the stories they relate are without doubt perfectly genuine ones . In many cases , the last resource of some gaming peer or gentleman of quality encompassed by a sea of troubles ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 325 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Pagina 129 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Pagina 98 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Pagina 129 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 261 - Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war...
Pagina 349 - A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the picture ! Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene...
Pagina 116 - King's bench prison and of Mount Scoundrel in the Fleet. Even the poorest pitied him ; and they well might pity him. For if their condition was equally abject, their aspirings were not equally high, nor their sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day for the wages of a ditcher, to be hunted by bailiffs from one haunt of beggary and pestilence to another, from Grub Street to St. George's...
Pagina 6 - I saw an ancient lady, and a lady of very good quality, I assure you, drawn to church in her coach with six oxen ; nor was it done in frolic or humour, but mere necessity, the way being so stiff and deep that no horses could go in it.
Pagina 10 - Of all the cursed roads that ever disgraced this kingdom in the very ages of barbarism, none ever equalled that from Billericay to the King's Head at Tilbury.
Pagina 2 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...