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... raised the influence of the House of Commons as eventually to create our lower assembly the centre and force of the State . But the Revolution of 1688 was as much social as it was political . If it emancipated the people from the ...
... raised the influence of the House of Commons as eventually to create our lower assembly the centre and force of the State . But the Revolution of 1688 was as much social as it was political . If it emancipated the people from the ...
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... raised the tone of the journal to the height it reached and made it the welcome guest at every breakfast table . " The truth is , " writes Macaulay , " that the fifty or sixty numbers which we owe to Addison were not merely the best but ...
... raised the tone of the journal to the height it reached and made it the welcome guest at every breakfast table . " The truth is , " writes Macaulay , " that the fifty or sixty numbers which we owe to Addison were not merely the best but ...
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... raised to a greater thing than I intended it For the elegance , purity and correctness which appeared in the writings of Joseph Addison were not so much my purpose ; as ( in any intelligible manner , as I could ) to rally all those ...
... raised to a greater thing than I intended it For the elegance , purity and correctness which appeared in the writings of Joseph Addison were not so much my purpose ; as ( in any intelligible manner , as I could ) to rally all those ...
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... raise a laugh or inflict one of his little stabs which strike so gently and yet go so home , but by the aid of an art which is absolutely without reproach : in the perusal of his pages we feel we are in the presence of a perfect man of ...
... raise a laugh or inflict one of his little stabs which strike so gently and yet go so home , but by the aid of an art which is absolutely without reproach : in the perusal of his pages we feel we are in the presence of a perfect man of ...
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... raised the salary from sixty to three hundred pounds . This was devilish ungrateful , and Lewis was telling me the particulars ; but I had a hint given me that I might save him in the other employment , and leave was given me to clear ...
... raised the salary from sixty to three hundred pounds . This was devilish ungrateful , and Lewis was telling me the particulars ; but I had a hint given me that I might save him in the other employment , and leave was given me to clear ...
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Page 149 - Fables: but he frankly declared to me his mind, that "he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true...
Page 114 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 419 - Being now of great credit and antiquity, I was rather looked upon as a medal than an ordinary coin : for which reason a gamester laid hold of me, and converted me to a counter, having got together some dozens of us for that use. We led a melancholy life in his possession, being busy at those hours wherein current coin, is at rest, and partaking the fate of our master; being in a few moments valued at a crown, a pound, or a sixpence, according to the situation in which the fortune of the cards placed...
Page 148 - This put us into a long field of discourse about the beauties, who were mothers to the present, and shined in the boxes twenty years ago. I told her, " I was glad she had transferred so many of her charms, and I did not question but her eldest daughter was within half a year of being a toast...
Page 382 - That from their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings.
Page 397 - Flavia the least and slightest toy, Can with resistless art employ. This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love ; But she with such an air and mien, Not to be told, or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so, That it wounds more than Cupid's bow : Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast a flame.
Page 468 - Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was least fit : so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page 118 - Homer, stood up at his entrance, and placed him on his right hand. The virgin, who it seems was one of the nine sisters that attended on the Goddess of Fame, smiled with an ineffable grace at their meeting and retired.
Page 226 - ... passed almost a sixth part of my time for these last forty years. Our club consisted originally of fifteen; but, partly by the severity of the law in arbitrary times, and partly by the natural effects of old age, we are at present reduced to a third part of that number; in which, however, we have this consolation, that the best company is said to consist of five persons.
Page 90 - His person, it is to be confessed, is no small recommendation ; but he is to be highly commended for not losing that advantage, and adding to the propriety of speech, which might pass the criticism of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience...