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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... fashionable Education of their Son and Daughter .. 23. Letter from Mr. Village , with a Description of a Quack Doctor , and a Company of Strolling Players in a Country Town , • No. 24. On the Learning of the Polite World . CONTENTS . vii.
... fashionable Education of their Son and Daughter .. 23. Letter from Mr. Village , with a Description of a Quack Doctor , and a Company of Strolling Players in a Country Town , • No. 24. On the Learning of the Polite World . CONTENTS . vii.
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Alexander Chalmers. No. 24. On the Learning of the Polite World . Pro- per Studies for Persons of Fashion . Let- ter containing a Scheme for a Polite Cir- culating Library ; with a Specimen of the COL . & THORN . Books 25. On the Vanity ...
Alexander Chalmers. No. 24. On the Learning of the Polite World . Pro- per Studies for Persons of Fashion . Let- ter containing a Scheme for a Polite Cir- culating Library ; with a Specimen of the COL . & THORN . Books 25. On the Vanity ...
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... polite literature , was accompanied and recommended by manners open , sincere , and candid . In his writings and conversation he had a wonderful liveliness , with a vein of pleasantry peculiarly his own . In ridiculing the failings of ...
... polite literature , was accompanied and recommended by manners open , sincere , and candid . In his writings and conversation he had a wonderful liveliness , with a vein of pleasantry peculiarly his own . In ridiculing the failings of ...
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... polite scholar and a wit . Jokes and bons 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 ...
... polite scholar and a wit . Jokes and bons 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 ...
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... polite world . Nothing is accounted more ungenteel , than for a husband and wife to be seen together in public places ; and if they should ever accidentally meet , they take no more no- tice of each other , than if they were absolute ...
... polite world . Nothing is accounted more ungenteel , than for a husband and wife to be seen together in public places ; and if they should ever accidentally meet , they take no more no- tice of each other , than if they were absolute ...
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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.
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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.