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... wife and family around him ; having made them acquainted with his certainty of speedy dissolution , he withdrew his thoughts from terrestrial to celestial objects ; and , keeping his hand on his pulse , with the utmost fortitude and ...
... wife and family around him ; having made them acquainted with his certainty of speedy dissolution , he withdrew his thoughts from terrestrial to celestial objects ; and , keeping his hand on his pulse , with the utmost fortitude and ...
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... wife . IT is with the utmost concern I have heard my- self within this week passed accused at several tea- tables , of not being a man of my word . The female part of my readers exclaim against me for not hav- ing as yet paid my ...
... wife . IT is with the utmost concern I have heard my- self within this week passed accused at several tea- tables , of not being a man of my word . The female part of my readers exclaim against me for not hav- ing as yet paid my ...
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... - riages but this order , if it maintains its ground , will more certainly promote them . How inviting must such a state appear to a woman of spirit ! An Eng lish wife , with all the indiscretions of a girl THE CONNOISSEUR . 47.
... - riages but this order , if it maintains its ground , will more certainly promote them . How inviting must such a state appear to a woman of spirit ! An Eng lish wife , with all the indiscretions of a girl THE CONNOISSEUR . 47.
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lish wife , with all the indiscretions of a girl , may as- sume more than the privileges of a woman ; may tri- fle ... wives , brothers , sisters , cousins , and in short the whole circle of kindred and acquaintance , can entertain the ...
lish wife , with all the indiscretions of a girl , may as- sume more than the privileges of a woman ; may tri- fle ... wives , brothers , sisters , cousins , and in short the whole circle of kindred and acquaintance , can entertain the ...
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... wife assures me , she has often felt the wolf in his belly . The seat of this distemper is orginally in the palate , and discovers itself by a wa- tering of the mouth from the salival glands , and a grinding of the teeth as in the ...
... wife assures me , she has often felt the wolf in his belly . The seat of this distemper is orginally in the palate , and discovers itself by a wa- tering of the mouth from the salival glands , and a grinding of the teeth as in the ...
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Page 39 - 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?
Page 170 - As several garbs, with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense ; Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.
Page 83 - 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...
Page 31 - Chapter coffee-house, which is frequented by those encouragers of literature, and (as they are styled by an eminent critic) 'not the worst judges of merit, 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.
Page 76 - 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.
Page 164 - Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day — And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday...
Page 113 - To spoyle the bloud of innocent. By forfeit of his bond. And as he was about to strike In him the deadly blow : ' Stay ' (quoth the judge) ' thy crueltie ; I charge thee to do so.
Page 34 - Larem proprium vescor vernasque procaces pasco libatis dapibus. prout cuique libido est siccat inaequalis calices conviva, solutus legibus insanis, seu quis capit acria fortis pocula seu modicis uvescit laetius. ergo 70 sermo oritur, non de villis domibusve alienis, nee male necne Lepos saltet; sed quod magis ad nos pertinet et nescire malum est agitamus: utrumne divitiis homines an sint virtute beati; quidve ad amicitias, usus rectumne, trahat nos; 75 et quae sit natura boni summumque quid eius.
Page 109 - I'll lay you a thousand crowns against a pound of your flesh that it is true.
Page 110 - Nor ever yet did any good To them in streets that lie. His life was like a barrow hogge, That liveth many a day, Yet never once doth any good, Until men will him slay. Or like a filthy heap of dung, That lyeth in a whoard ; Which never can do any good, Till it be spread abroad. So fares it with the usurer, He cannot sleep in rest, For feare the thiefe will him pursue To plucke him from his nest.