Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot, 第 1 巻W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770 |
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... Office under Lord Mafham , a Place of very confiderable Profit , and is poffeffed of an ample Fortune befides , which he enjoys with a fair Reputation . The Doctor fhared the like Fortune with his Friends Pope and Swift , in having ...
... Office under Lord Mafham , a Place of very confiderable Profit , and is poffeffed of an ample Fortune befides , which he enjoys with a fair Reputation . The Doctor fhared the like Fortune with his Friends Pope and Swift , in having ...
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... Office . Therefore I think I cannot do better service to Learning , Youth , and the Nation in general , than by fhewing , That the Mathematicks of all parts of human Knowledge , for the improvement of the Mind , for their fubferviency ...
... Office . Therefore I think I cannot do better service to Learning , Youth , and the Nation in general , than by fhewing , That the Mathematicks of all parts of human Knowledge , for the improvement of the Mind , for their fubferviency ...
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... Office of Admiralty , in the place of their ⚫ establishment ; to correct the errors in prefence : of the Seamen , and to restore them within a month , & c . " King Charles the fecond , who well understood the importance of ...
... Office of Admiralty , in the place of their ⚫ establishment ; to correct the errors in prefence : of the Seamen , and to restore them within a month , & c . " King Charles the fecond , who well understood the importance of ...
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... Office with Fawning and Cringing . Now by means of the Art of Decyphering it is eafy to re- concile thefe Contradictions . But this is not confined to State Matters only , it is ufeful upon all Occafions , it is necessary in every Sta ...
... Office with Fawning and Cringing . Now by means of the Art of Decyphering it is eafy to re- concile thefe Contradictions . But this is not confined to State Matters only , it is ufeful upon all Occafions , it is necessary in every Sta ...
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... Office of Sacrificer at the Grand Treafurer's , most ex- pert at Libations , and the Art of alluring the common People to his Mafter by Omens , Predictions , and Odes , which he caufed to be fung in publick Places ; but as he was not ...
... Office of Sacrificer at the Grand Treafurer's , most ex- pert at Libations , and the Art of alluring the common People to his Mafter by Omens , Predictions , and Odes , which he caufed to be fung in publick Places ; but as he was not ...
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ix ページ - Was at last condemned to it for what he could not do. Oh, indignant Reader! Think not his Life useless to Mankind!
104 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, " That whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
88 ページ - This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments and high favour at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens), five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office.
89 ページ - ... and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds in the office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to...
89 ページ - Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par. These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great numbers are on record.
92 ページ - Blefuscu; and when they were quelled the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy; but the books of the Bigendians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.
89 ページ - ... not received a fall, and some of them two or three. I was assured that a year or two before my arrival, Flimnap would have infallibly broke his neck, if one of the King's cushions, that accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall.
89 ページ - But the danger is much greater when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity; for, by contending to excel themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who hath not received a fall, and some of them two or three.
90 ページ - The Emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
5 ページ - By giving us a clear and extensive knowledge of the system of the world, which, as it creates in us the most profound reverence of the Almighty and wise Creator, so it frees us from the mean and narrow thoughts which ignorance and superstition are apt to beget.