The British Essayists;: ObserverJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... present work , particularly of the literary anecdotes of Greece . 2. Sect of the Dampers described . Quotation from Pliny's letters . 3. Love of praise . Instances of flattery in the dedication of Sepulveda to the king of Spain , also ...
... present work , particularly of the literary anecdotes of Greece . 2. Sect of the Dampers described . Quotation from Pliny's letters . 3. Love of praise . Instances of flattery in the dedication of Sepulveda to the king of Spain , also ...
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... present time therefore on this account , as well as from other circumstances peculiar to it , may seem favourable to the undertaking : but there are good reasons , why writers have desisted from pursuing any further these attempts of ...
... present time therefore on this account , as well as from other circumstances peculiar to it , may seem favourable to the undertaking : but there are good reasons , why writers have desisted from pursuing any further these attempts of ...
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Alexander Chalmers. ceive , in any age so enlightened as the present , that I can offer any thing to the public , which many of my readers will not be as well informed of as my- self , would be a very silly presumption indeed : simply to ...
Alexander Chalmers. ceive , in any age so enlightened as the present , that I can offer any thing to the public , which many of my readers will not be as well informed of as my- self , would be a very silly presumption indeed : simply to ...
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... present sect of Dampers was really a branch from the Thalesian root , for it is certain they make great use of his first principle in the philosophy they practise . The business of these philosophers in society is to check the flights ...
... present sect of Dampers was really a branch from the Thalesian root , for it is certain they make great use of his first principle in the philosophy they practise . The business of these philosophers in society is to check the flights ...
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... present . The company was entertained with the recital of a very finished performance : but there were two or three persons among the audience , men of great genius in their own and a few of their friends ' estimation , who sat like so ...
... present . The company was entertained with the recital of a very finished performance : but there were two or three persons among the audience , men of great genius in their own and a few of their friends ' estimation , who sat like so ...
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Seite 208 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Seite 28 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean ; There, where your argosies with portly sail. Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curtsy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Seite 205 - But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one : 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Seite 179 - Or gravely try to read the lines Writ underneath the country signs; Or, ' Have you nothing new to-day ' From Pope, from Parnell, or from Gay ?' Such tattle often entertains My lord and me as far as Staines, As once a week we travel down To Windsor, and again to town, Where all that passes inter nos Might be proclaim'd at Charing-cross.
Seite 74 - I'll go look A little, how it heightens. [Exit. Mam. Do. — My shirts I'll have of taffeta-sarsnet, soft and light As cobwebs; and for all my other raiment, It shall be such as might provoke the Persian, Were he to teach the world riot anew. My gloves of fishes' and birds' skins, perfumed With gums of paradise, and eastern air — Sur.
Seite 74 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies, The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Seite 178 - Tis (let me see) three years and more (October next it will be four) Since Harley bid me first attend, And chose me for an humble friend; Would take me in his coach to chat, And question me of this and that; As, 'What's o'clock!
Seite 334 - ... smith by trade, and the farmer's men, as far as they are concerned. Mr. Brereton, the rector, would have him say nothing of the story, for that he can get no tenant, though he has offered the house for ten pounds a year less. Mr. P. the former incumbent, whom the apparition represented, was a man of a very ill report, supposed to have got children of his maid, and to have murthered them ; but I advised the curate to say nothing himself of this last part of P., but leave that to the parishioners,...
Seite 263 - Turkey grogram ravelled; if short, it hath a cape like a calf's tongue and is not so deep in his whole length (nor hath so much cloth in it, I will justify) as only the standing cape of a Dutchman's cloak.
Seite 336 - I leaped out of bed, and, not staying to put on my clothes, went out of my room and along a gallery to the door, which I found locked or bolted ; I desired him to unlock the door, for that I could not get in ; then he got out of bed and opened the door, which was near, and went immediately to bed again ; I went in three or four steps, and, it being a.