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Pagina 16
... endeavour at the same end with himself , the favor of a commander . He will , however , in his way of talk , excuse generals for not dis- posing according to men's desert , or inquiring into it for , says he , that great man who has a ...
... endeavour at the same end with himself , the favor of a commander . He will , however , in his way of talk , excuse generals for not dis- posing according to men's desert , or inquiring into it for , says he , that great man who has a ...
Pagina 41
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit . and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if pos sible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be ...
... endeavour to enliven morality with wit . and to temper wit with morality , that my readers may , if pos sible , both ways find their account in the speculation of the day . And to the end that their virtue and discretion may not be ...
Pagina 44
... endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment , and by that means least divert the minds of my female readers from greater tri- fles . At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are ...
... endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving entertainment , and by that means least divert the minds of my female readers from greater tri- fles . At the same time , as I would fain give some finishing touches to those which are ...
Pagina 48
... endeavour to establish ourselves an interest in Him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hand , and moderates them after such a manner , that it is impossible for one being to break loose upon another without his knowledge ...
... endeavour to establish ourselves an interest in Him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hand , and moderates them after such a manner , that it is impossible for one being to break loose upon another without his knowledge ...
Pagina 59
... endeavour to expose ; and shall consider the crime as it appears in a species , not as it is circum- stanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck , that he might behead them at ...
... endeavour to expose ; and shall consider the crime as it appears in a species , not as it is circum- stanced in an individual . I think it was Caligula , who wished the whole city of Rome had but one neck , that he might behead them at ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Pagina 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Pagina 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Pagina 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Pagina 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Pagina 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Pagina 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Pagina 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Pagina 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Pagina 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.