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... Lady Craven , and the next with good Mrs. Gardiner3 , the tallow - chandler , on Snow - hill . On my expressing my wonder at his discovering so much of the knowledge peculiar to different professions , he told me , ' I learnt what I ...
... Lady Craven , and the next with good Mrs. Gardiner3 , the tallow - chandler , on Snow - hill . On my expressing my wonder at his discovering so much of the knowledge peculiar to different professions , he told me , ' I learnt what I ...
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... lady of my acquaintance , who maintained , that her husband's having been guilty of numberless infidelities , released her from conjugal obligations , because they were reciprocal . JOHNSON . This is miserable stuff , Sir . To the ...
... lady of my acquaintance , who maintained , that her husband's having been guilty of numberless infidelities , released her from conjugal obligations , because they were reciprocal . JOHNSON . This is miserable stuff , Sir . To the ...
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... lady was left by her father , induced him to treat her with the utmost tenderness , and even to be desirous of procuring her amusement , so as sometimes to in- commode many of his friends , by carrying her with him to their houses ...
... lady was left by her father , induced him to treat her with the utmost tenderness , and even to be desirous of procuring her amusement , so as sometimes to in- commode many of his friends , by carrying her with him to their houses ...
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... Lady Hesketh , taking up ap- parently a thought which Paoli , as reported by Boswell , had thrown out in conversation , proposed to Cowper the Mediterranean for a topic . replied , " Unless I were a better his- torian than I am , there ...
... Lady Hesketh , taking up ap- parently a thought which Paoli , as reported by Boswell , had thrown out in conversation , proposed to Cowper the Mediterranean for a topic . replied , " Unless I were a better his- torian than I am , there ...
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... lady of large fortune ' was mentioned , as one who did good to many , but by no means ' by stealth , ' and instead of ' blushing to find it fame2 , ' acted evidently from vanity . JOHN- SON . I have seen no beings who do as much good ...
... lady of large fortune ' was mentioned , as one who did good to many , but by no means ' by stealth , ' and instead of ' blushing to find it fame2 , ' acted evidently from vanity . JOHN- SON . I have seen no beings who do as much good ...
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Seite 380 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 455 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Seite 455 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Seite 381 - Poor stuff! No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Seite 154 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Seite 302 - He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling ; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Seite 72 - To Gammer Gurton if it give the bays, And yet deny the Careless Husband praise, Or say our fathers never broke a rule ; Why then, I say, the public is a fool.
Seite 13 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
Seite 358 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Seite 159 - Hermit hoar in solemn cell, Wearing out life's evening gray : Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell, What is bliss? and which the way?