The Citizen of the World, Volumes 1-2J. and R. Childs, 1820 |
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Pagina iii
... considering the ca- priciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but , during this fit of morality , lest my reader should sleep , I'll take a nap myself , and when I awake , tell him my dream . I imagined the Thames ...
... considering the ca- priciousness of public taste , or the mutability of fortune ; but , during this fit of morality , lest my reader should sleep , I'll take a nap myself , and when I awake , tell him my dream . I imagined the Thames ...
Pagina 13
... consider myself here as a newly - created being introduced into a new world : every object strikes with wonder and surprise . The imagination , still unsated , seems the only active principle of the mind . The most trifling occurrences ...
... consider myself here as a newly - created being introduced into a new world : every object strikes with wonder and surprise . The imagination , still unsated , seems the only active principle of the mind . The most trifling occurrences ...
Pagina 16
... consider what sort of a crea- ture the fine lady is , to whom he is supposed to pay his addresses , it is not strange to find him thus equipped in order to please . She is herself every whit as fond of powder , and tails , and hog's ...
... consider what sort of a crea- ture the fine lady is , to whom he is supposed to pay his addresses , it is not strange to find him thus equipped in order to please . She is herself every whit as fond of powder , and tails , and hog's ...
Pagina 53
... consider luxury ; whether as employing a number of hands naturally too feeble for more laborious employment ; as finding a variety of occupa- tion for others who might be totally idle , or as furnishing out new inlets to happiness ...
... consider luxury ; whether as employing a number of hands naturally too feeble for more laborious employment ; as finding a variety of occupa- tion for others who might be totally idle , or as furnishing out new inlets to happiness ...
Pagina 65
... considering it would be my last payment . A person attended us , who , without once blushing , told an hundred lies ; he talked of a lady who died by pricking her finger ; of a king with a golden head , and twenty such pieces of ...
... considering it would be my last payment . A person attended us , who , without once blushing , told an hundred lies ; he talked of a lady who died by pricking her finger ; of a king with a golden head , and twenty such pieces of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 305 - By this time we were arrived as high as the stairs would permit us to ascend, till we came to what he was facetiously pleased to call the first floor down the chimney; and knocking at the door, a voice from within demanded, who's there?
Pagina 298 - Our crew was carried into a French prison, 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 306 - But this not satisfying the querist, the voice again repeated the demand ; to which he answered louder than before ; and now the door was opened by an old woman with cautious reluctance.
Pagina 286 - Some. are without the covering even of rags, and others omaciated with disease ; the world has disclaimed them ; society turns its back upon their distress, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger. These poor shivering females have once seen happier days, and been flattered into beauty.
Pagina 294 - 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.
Pagina 71 - ... prejudicial; and life acquires an imaginary value, in proportion as its real value is no more. Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general, from the length of our acquaintance with it. ' I would not choose ', says a French philosopher, ' to see an old post pulled up with which I had been long acquainted.
Pagina 285 - ... 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. What cities, as great as this, have once...
Pagina 84 - Such is the contest that no honest man can heartily wish success to either party.
Pagina 298 - French at any time; so we went down to the door where both the sentries were posted, and rushing upon them, seized their arms in a moment, and knocked them down. From thence nine of us ran together to the quay, and seizing the first boat we met, got out of the harbour and put to sea. We had not been here three days before we were taken up by the Dorset privateer, who were glad of so many good hands; and we consented to run our chance.
Pagina 287 - The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny; and every law which gives others security becomes an enemy to them. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility...