The British Essayists;: ConnoisseurJ. 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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... imagine , that I dipt into any of our modern novels , or took up any of our late trage- dies . Let it suffice , that I presently fell fast asleep . I found myself transported in an instant to the shore of an immense sea , covered with ...
... imagine , that I dipt into any of our modern novels , or took up any of our late trage- dies . Let it suffice , that I presently fell fast asleep . I found myself transported in an instant to the shore of an immense sea , covered with ...
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... imagine the torrent of criticism bursting in upon me , and ready to overwhelm me in an instant . ،، Cast a look , resumed my instructor , on that vast " lake divided into two parts , which lead to yonder " magnificent structures ...
... imagine the torrent of criticism bursting in upon me , and ready to overwhelm me in an instant . ،، Cast a look , resumed my instructor , on that vast " lake divided into two parts , which lead to yonder " magnificent structures ...
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... imagine that by convincing a lady , that she has no soul , she will be less scrupulous about the disposal of her body . The ridiculous notions maintained by free - thinkers in their writings , scarce deserve a serious refutation ; and ...
... imagine that by convincing a lady , that she has no soul , she will be less scrupulous about the disposal of her body . The ridiculous notions maintained by free - thinkers in their writings , scarce deserve a serious refutation ; and ...
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... imagine it would his god - ceding , or call off their militibuses , they are mistaken . conected with learning , than Ges , who was the finest greatest gueral was also the best main earning wears a more amiable irin courts and camps ...
... imagine it would his god - ceding , or call off their militibuses , they are mistaken . conected with learning , than Ges , who was the finest greatest gueral was also the best main earning wears a more amiable irin courts and camps ...
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... imagine it would derogate from their good - breeding , or call off their attention from military business , they are mistaken . Pedantry is no more connected with learning , than rashness with courage . Cæsar , who was the finest ...
... imagine it would derogate from their good - breeding , or call off their attention from military business , they are mistaken . Pedantry is no more connected with learning , than rashness with courage . Cæsar , who was the finest ...
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11 ページ - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; — and what's his reason? I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
107 ページ - That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of...
53 ページ - They would not then, if they were trusted with fair and hopeful armies, suffer them for want of just and wise discipline to shed away from about them like sick feathers, though they be never so oft...
53 ページ - ... colonels of twenty men in a company, to quaff out, or convey into secret hoards, the wages of a delusive list, and a miserable remnant; yet in the...
5 ページ - This coflee-house is every night crowded with men of parts. Almost every one you meet is a polite scholar and a wit. Jokes and bon mots are echoed from box to box ; every branch of literature is critically examined, and the merit of every production of the press, or performance at the theatres, weighed and determined.
48 ページ - I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter ; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not.
4 ページ - They aim at the air and mien of the drawing-room ; but the holiday smartness of a 'prentice, heightened with some additional touches of the rake or coxcomb, betrays itself in every thing they do. The Temple, however, is stocked with its peculiar beaux, wits, poets, critics, and every character in the gay world; and it is a thousand pities that so pretty a society should be disgraced with a few dull fellows, who can submit to puzzle themselves with cases and reports, and have not taste enough to follow...
48 ページ - I believe that man is a beast; that the soul is the body, and that the body is the soul; and that after death there is neither body nor soul.
81 ページ - And he for it would pay Whatsoever he would demand of him, And pledges he should have. ' No,' (quoth the Jew with Hearing lookes) ' Sir, aske what you will have.
3 ページ - ... the booksellers. The conversation here naturally turns upon the newest publications ; but their criticisms are somewhat singular. When they say a good book, they do not mean to praise the style or sentiment, but the quick and extensive sale of it. That book is best which sells most; and if the demand for Quarles should be greater than for Pope, he would have the highest place on the rubric-post.