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... practise physick ; but , having been bred a scholar , I feared I should not fucceed that way neither , therefore refolved to go on in my prefent project . But you are to understand , that I fhall not pretend to Author's Preface . 3.
... practise physick ; but , having been bred a scholar , I feared I should not fucceed that way neither , therefore refolved to go on in my prefent project . But you are to understand , that I fhall not pretend to Author's Preface . 3.
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... pretend to raise a credit to this work upon the weight of my politick news only , but , as my Latin fentence in the title page informs you , shall take any thing that offers for the fubject of my difcourfe . Thus new perfons , as well ...
... pretend to raise a credit to this work upon the weight of my politick news only , but , as my Latin fentence in the title page informs you , shall take any thing that offers for the fubject of my difcourfe . Thus new perfons , as well ...
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... pretends to have been intimate with Jack Ogle . He has about ten diftiches of Hudibras without book , and never leaves the club till he has applied them all . If any modern wit be mentioned , or any town frolick spoken of , he shakes ...
... pretends to have been intimate with Jack Ogle . He has about ten diftiches of Hudibras without book , and never leaves the club till he has applied them all . If any modern wit be mentioned , or any town frolick spoken of , he shakes ...
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... pretend to write to a lady civil things , as Maria defires . Time was , when I could have told her , I had received a letter from her fair hands ; and that if this paper trembled as she read it , it then best expreffed its author or 42 ...
... pretend to write to a lady civil things , as Maria defires . Time was , when I could have told her , I had received a letter from her fair hands ; and that if this paper trembled as she read it , it then best expreffed its author or 42 ...
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... pretend , I question not but you add to it com- plexion , air , and shape : but , dear Molly , a man in his grand climacterick is of no sex . Be a good girl , and conduct your- felf with honour and virtue when you love one younger than ...
... pretend , I question not but you add to it com- plexion , air , and shape : but , dear Molly , a man in his grand climacterick is of no sex . Be a good girl , and conduct your- felf with honour and virtue when you love one younger than ...
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Page 296 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Page 289 - The Tories carry it among the new members six to one. Mr. Addison's election has passed easy and undisputed ; and I believe if he had a mind to be king, he would hardly be refused.
Page 298 - It is impossible for this ingenious sort of men to subsist after a peace : every one remembers the shifts they were driven to in the reign of king Charles the Second, when they could not furnish out a single paper of news, without lighting up a comet in Germany, or a fire in Moscow.
Page 23 - I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling papa ; for, I know not how, I had some slight idea that he was locked up there.
Page 296 - Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease 'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease; And proud his Mistress' orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Page 288 - And each true Briton is to Ben so civil, He swears the Muses met him at the Devil. Tho' justly Greece her eldest sons admires, Why should not we be wiser than our sires?
Page 23 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me. I remember I went into the room where his body lay, and my mother sat weeping alone by it. I had my battledore in my hand, and fell a beating the coffin, and calling Papa...
Page 24 - ... was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since. The mind in infancy is, methinks, like the body in embryo, and receives impressions so forcible that they are as hard to be removed by reason, as any mark with which a child is born is to be taken away by any future application. Hence it is that...
Page 15 - Jeoffery, no longer ago than last night, upon a dispute what day of the month it was then in Holland, pulled his pipe out of his mouth, and cried, 'What does the scholar say to it?
Page 84 - ... therefore he also retired. I was extremely troubled to see the glorious mart of London left with no other guardian but him of credit. But Pacolet told me, ' that traders had nothing to do with the honour or conscience of their...