The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: Revised and Corrected, Volume 2John Nutt, and sold by John Morphew, 1712 |
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... Love with him as fhe is , is as grave as a Veftal at his Entrance , and the Confe-- quence is accordingly . He watches half the Play for , a Glance from her Sifter , while Gatty is over- looked and neglected . I with you heartily as ...
... Love with him as fhe is , is as grave as a Veftal at his Entrance , and the Confe-- quence is accordingly . He watches half the Play for , a Glance from her Sifter , while Gatty is over- looked and neglected . I with you heartily as ...
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... Love and Bufinefs . A Gentleman prefent was of my Mind , and faid , That we must defcribe the Difference between the Modefty of Women and that of Men , or we fhould be confounded in our Reafonings upon it ; for this Virtue is to be ...
... Love and Bufinefs . A Gentleman prefent was of my Mind , and faid , That we must defcribe the Difference between the Modefty of Women and that of Men , or we fhould be confounded in our Reafonings upon it ; for this Virtue is to be ...
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... Love ; and there is fuch a Thing as a Merit , which caufes rather Distance than Paffion . But there being no Medium in the State of Matrimo- ny , their Life began to take the ufual Gradations to become the most irkfome of all Beings ...
... Love ; and there is fuch a Thing as a Merit , which caufes rather Distance than Paffion . But there being no Medium in the State of Matrimo- ny , their Life began to take the ufual Gradations to become the most irkfome of all Beings ...
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... love or hate : And to let you fee how much you are beholden to me for my Conduct , I have both hated and defpifed you , my Dear , this half Yar ; and yet neither in Lan- guage or Behaviour has it been visible but that I loved you ...
... love or hate : And to let you fee how much you are beholden to me for my Conduct , I have both hated and defpifed you , my Dear , this half Yar ; and yet neither in Lan- guage or Behaviour has it been visible but that I loved you ...
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Revised and Corrected Sir Richard Steele. loved you tenderly . Therefore , as I know you go out of Town to divert Life in Pursuit of Beats , and Converfation with Men just above ' em ; So , my Life , from this Moment , I fhall read all ...
Revised and Corrected Sir Richard Steele. loved you tenderly . Therefore , as I know you go out of Town to divert Life in Pursuit of Beats , and Converfation with Men just above ' em ; So , my Life , from this Moment , I fhall read all ...
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Page 197 - THERE are two kinds of immortality; that which the soul really enjoys after this life, and that imaginary existence by which men live in their fame and reputation. The best and greatest actions have proceeded from the prospect of the one or the other of these; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter, as the principal reward of their labours. It was for...
Page 281 - His mother, between laughing and chiding, would have put him out of the room; but I would not part with him so. I found upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all the learning on the other side eight years old.
Page 277 - The boys and girls strive who shall come first, when they think it is I that am knocking at the door ; and that child which loses the race to me runs back again to tell the father it is Mr.
Page 351 - I read in books or see among mankind, than such passages as represent human nature in its proper dignity. As man is a creature made up of different extremes, he has something in him very great and very mean.
Page 225 - I see you do not like the subject I am upon: let nothing provoke you to fall upon an imperfection he cannot help; for, if he has a resenting spirit, he will think your aversion as immoveable as the imperfection with which you upbraid him.
Page 57 - August 24. The author of the ensuing letter, by his name, and the quotations he makes from the ancients, seems a sort of spy from the old world, whom we moderns ought to be careful of offending; therefore I must be free, and own it a fair hit where he takes me, rather than disoblige him. • SIR, ' Having a peculiar humour of desiring to be . somewhat the better or wiser for what I read, I am always...
Page 197 - ... which Men live in their Fame and Reputation. The best and greatest Actions have proceeded from the Prospect of the one or the other of these; but my Design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter as the principal Reward of their Labours. It was for this Reason that I excluded from my Tables of Fame all the great Founders and Votaries of Religion; and it is for this...
Page 105 - He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason. All the objections which he can form are laid open and dispersed before he uses the least vehemence in his sermon ; but when he thinks he has your head, he very soon wins your heart; and never pretends to show the beauty of holiness until he hath convinced you of the truth of it.
Page 277 - I am, as it were, at home at that house, and every member of it knows me for their wellwisher. I cannot, indeed, express the pleasure it is to be met by the children with so much joy as I am when I go thither. The boys and girls strive who shall come first when they think it is I that am knocking at the door...
Page 351 - Their business is, to depreciate human nature, and consider it under its worst appearances. They give mean interpretations and base motives to the worthiest actions : they resolve virtue and vice into constitution. In short, they endeavour to make no distinction between man and man, or between the species of men, and that of brutes.