Harrison's British Classicks, Nide 7Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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Sivu 7
... honoured in the breach than the obfervance ; a motto being ge- nerally chofen after the effay is written , and hardly ... honour not to hurt your- • felf . ' ADVERTISEMENT TO THE WITS . WHEREAS it is expected that the title of this paper ...
... honoured in the breach than the obfervance ; a motto being ge- nerally chofen after the effay is written , and hardly ... honour not to hurt your- • felf . ' ADVERTISEMENT TO THE WITS . WHEREAS it is expected that the title of this paper ...
Sivu 18
... honours , that in a whole twelve - month's play they never rofe winners but that ence .. But if thefe Growlers ( a name which Ifhall always call the men of this clafs by ) would content themfelves with giv- ing repeated hiftories of ...
... honours , that in a whole twelve - month's play they never rofe winners but that ence .. But if thefe Growlers ( a name which Ifhall always call the men of this clafs by ) would content themfelves with giv- ing repeated hiftories of ...
Sivu 52
... honour as last week , when the forap of Juvenal prefixed to this let- ter was our theme . The general topic was declaiming against that old - fashion- ed pedantic language called Greek , which you may imagine was the most popular turn ...
... honour as last week , when the forap of Juvenal prefixed to this let- ter was our theme . The general topic was declaiming against that old - fashion- ed pedantic language called Greek , which you may imagine was the most popular turn ...
Sivu 55
... honour , to rectify an abufe which is fo great a difcredit to it ; or if they continue regardless of it , that you , Mr. Fitz - Adam , will pronounce every individual of them to be an ac- complice in the barbarity . And now , Sir , that ...
... honour , to rectify an abufe which is fo great a difcredit to it ; or if they continue regardless of it , that you , Mr. Fitz - Adam , will pronounce every individual of them to be an ac- complice in the barbarity . And now , Sir , that ...
Sivu 68
... honour of Old England ; so we neither bowed nor pulled off our hats to the old rogue . Provifions and liquor are but bad here ; and , to fay the truth , I have not had one thorough good meal's meat since I left England . No longer ago ...
... honour of Old England ; so we neither bowed nor pulled off our hats to the old rogue . Provifions and liquor are but bad here ; and , to fay the truth , I have not had one thorough good meal's meat since I left England . No longer ago ...
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Sivu 163 - that there are many people in the world who would never have been in love if they had never heard talk of it.
Sivu 205 - I find you are but a bad engineer. While you aim at your mouth you will never hit it, take my word for it. A floating battery, to hit the mark, must be pointed something above or below it. If you would hit your mouth, direct your four-pounder at your forehead, or your chin.
Sivu 79 - Now sir, I have told you as much as I know of it, though I have admired and aimed at it all my Life.
Sivu 79 - Your daughters muft have been fo educated as to fit them to be wives without conjugal affedlion, and mothers without maternal care.
Sivu 42 - I can allure you, fir, that it is a very ferious one to me, notwithftanding the ill-natured comfort which I might have, of thinking it of late a very common one. I AM a gentleman of a reafonable paternal eftate in my county, and ferve as knight of the fhire for it.
Sivu 366 - I sat like a mope all the night, not daring to look up, for fear of catching the eyes of my acquaintance, who would have laughed me out of countenance. You may imagine, Mr. Fitz-Adam, that I contrived all manner of means to get off from any future engagements with my cousins ; but it has unfortunately so happened, that we have met almost every where.
Sivu 365 - I cannot but hope it will have some good effect on the conduct of those polite people, who are too sagacious, learned, and courageous to be kept in awe by the threats of hell and damnation...
Sivu 39 - I never faw either of them fo much as playing with the other's hand — I mean only when they have known I was within fight of them ; I have ftolen upon them unawares indeed, and have been witnefs to fuch words and looks as have quite melted me.
Sivu 22 - ... by the benefit than he had been before by his wants. But it is the peculiar talent of this gentleman to wound himfelf by proxy, or (in the fportfman's phrafe) to' knock himfelf down by by the recoiling of his own gun.
Sivu 41 - Such horfes have their necks adorned <c with firings of beads, and relicks, being writings " wrapt up in cloth of gold, or filk, containing the " names of their prophet, and when thefe horfes die, " they are buried with as much ceremony, as the near• " eft relations of their owners.