The World, Nide 2J. Dodsley, 1772 |
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Sivu 35
... prefent cafe ought to make proportionable allowance for much greater odds .. • BUT to do honour to CUCKOLDS , I will be bold to fay that they ought oftener to excite envy than contempt . How common is it for a man to owe his fortune to ...
... prefent cafe ought to make proportionable allowance for much greater odds .. • BUT to do honour to CUCKOLDS , I will be bold to fay that they ought oftener to excite envy than contempt . How common is it for a man to owe his fortune to ...
Sivu 39
... prefent age , by confeffing that many of them fecm confcious of their imperfections ; and , as far as their own judgments can direct them , take pains to appear manly . But , alas ! the methods they purfue , like moft mistaken ap ...
... prefent age , by confeffing that many of them fecm confcious of their imperfections ; and , as far as their own judgments can direct them , take pains to appear manly . But , alas ! the methods they purfue , like moft mistaken ap ...
Sivu 41
... prefent age seems an age of affectation . The whole head is weak , and the whole heart fick . And yet ( that I may not leave your readers with difagreeable ideas in their minds ) notwithstanding thefe alarming ap- pearances , the eye of ...
... prefent age seems an age of affectation . The whole head is weak , and the whole heart fick . And yet ( that I may not leave your readers with difagreeable ideas in their minds ) notwithstanding thefe alarming ap- pearances , the eye of ...
Sivu 44
... prefent themfelves in this great metropolis , the center of trade , industry and in- vention , fill my mind with ideas , which if they do not always instruct , at least amuse me . - ITAKE great pleasure in gueffing at the ranks and ...
... prefent themfelves in this great metropolis , the center of trade , industry and in- vention , fill my mind with ideas , which if they do not always instruct , at least amuse me . - ITAKE great pleasure in gueffing at the ranks and ...
Sivu 53
... prefent them to my readers without farther preface . SIR , To Mr. Firz - ADAM . His Majefty having frequently recommended to his parliament to confider of proper means to pút a stop to the numerous robberies and murders amongst C 3 ...
... prefent them to my readers without farther preface . SIR , To Mr. Firz - ADAM . His Majefty having frequently recommended to his parliament to confider of proper means to pút a stop to the numerous robberies and murders amongst C 3 ...
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Sivu 109 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Sivu 287 - ... this occasion be so uncourteous, as to suspect me of being a hired and interested puff of this work ; for I most solemnly protest, that neither Mr. Johnson, nor any person employed by him, nor any bookseller or booksellers concerned in the success of it, have ever offered me the usual compliment of a pair of gloves or a bottle of wine; nor has even Mr.
Sivu 210 - For here is a gentleman, the son of a layman (I speak to general cases), is sent to the university, and takes orders. He has interest perhaps to get two or more livings, and hires a person, who is as deserving...
Sivu 284 - ... by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books.
Sivu 139 - And here, as he assures you the grass is short, you are led through all the pleasures of unconnected variety, with this recommendation, that it is but a little way from the Palladian portico to the Gothic tower; from the Lapland to the Chinese house; or from the temple of Venus to the hermitage.
Sivu 229 - I discovered that this cooling and refreshing draught was composed of the strongest mountain wine, lowered indeed with a very little lemon and water, but then heightened again by a quantity of those comfortable aromatics, nutmeg and ginger ! Dinner, which had been called for more than once with some impatience, was at last brought up, upon the Colonel's threatening perdition to the master and all the waiters of the house, if it was delayed two minutes longer. We sat down without ceremony...
Sivu 268 - WAS quite thunderftruck at this intelligence,and accufed the wretch who brought it me as the vileft of men. He fell upon his knees, conjuring me not to think him capable of any defign in. what was done, and vowing to facrifice his life and fortune to reinftate me in the good opinion of, my friends.
Sivu 159 - Every hour which was not appropriated to one of these accomplishments, was spent in the ensnaring practice of reading novels and romances : of which Clelia was her favourite, and the hero of it continually in her head. Whilst Clarinda was thus accomplishing...
Sivu 170 - I may be allowed to fpeak a little plainer. The privilege of high birth is to do every thing you have a mind to do. It is a maxim with the men to attempt every thing, and -with the women to refufe but one thing.
Sivu 285 - Europe, to the degree of making it almost an universal one, was always reckoned among the glories of the reign of Lewis the fourteenth. But be it remembered, that the...