The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Հատոր 4H. Lintot, 1754 |
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... Kind is the Tale in the fe- cond Tatler , and the Epiftle from Mr. Downes the Prompter , with others which were very well received by the Publick . But I have only one Gentleman , who will be nameless , to thank for any frequent ...
... Kind is the Tale in the fe- cond Tatler , and the Epiftle from Mr. Downes the Prompter , with others which were very well received by the Publick . But I have only one Gentleman , who will be nameless , to thank for any frequent ...
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... Kind is , that he had fome honourable Intention in it . AS for this Point , never Hero in Romance was carried away with a more furious Ambition to conquer Giants and Tyrants , than I have been in extirpating Gamefters and Duellifts ...
... Kind is , that he had fome honourable Intention in it . AS for this Point , never Hero in Romance was carried away with a more furious Ambition to conquer Giants and Tyrants , than I have been in extirpating Gamefters and Duellifts ...
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... kind Offices and mutual Endear- ments . WHEN we therefore chufe our Companions for Life , if we hope to keep both them and ourselves in good Humour to the laft Stage of it , we must be ex- treamly careful in the Choice we make , as well ...
... kind Offices and mutual Endear- ments . WHEN we therefore chufe our Companions for Life , if we hope to keep both them and ourselves in good Humour to the laft Stage of it , we must be ex- treamly careful in the Choice we make , as well ...
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... kind of good Nature , that is not fubject to any Change of Health , Age , Fortune , or any of thofe Accidents which are apt to unfettle the best Difpofitions , that are founded rather in Conftitution than in Reafon . Where fuch a ...
... kind of good Nature , that is not fubject to any Change of Health , Age , Fortune , or any of thofe Accidents which are apt to unfettle the best Difpofitions , that are founded rather in Conftitution than in Reafon . Where fuch a ...
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... Kind ; for when a Man declares himself openly on one Side , that Party will take no more No- tice of him , because he is fure ; and the Set of Men whom he declares againft , for the fame Reafon are violent against him . Thus it is Folly ...
... Kind ; for when a Man declares himself openly on one Side , that Party will take no more No- tice of him , because he is fure ; and the Set of Men whom he declares againft , for the fame Reafon are violent against him . Thus it is Folly ...
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Էջ 109 - ... over ; and as they were passing by me into the garden, I asked them to let me be one of their company. The gentleman of the house told me, ' if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.
Էջ 287 - And now when I thought most of peace and honour, Thy hand is heavy upon me, and hath humbled me according to Thy former loving-kindness, keeping me still in Thy fatherly school, not as a bastard, but as a child. Just are Thy judgments upon me for my sins, which are more in number than the sands of the sea, but have no proportion to Thy mercies; for what are the sands of the sea ? Earth, heavens, and all these are nothing to Thy mercies.
Էջ 231 - The rest of the jury, upon the delivery of the sword to their foreman, drew all of them together as one man, and saluted the bench with such an air as signified the most resigned submission to those who commanded them, and the greatest magnanimity to execute what they should command.
Էջ 116 - I have made some necessary variations both in the tube and the fluid it contains. In the first place I ordered a tube to be cast in a planetary hour, and took care to seal it hermetically, when the Sun was in conjunction with Saturn. I then took the proper precautions about the fluid, which is a compound of two...
Էջ 104 - I have seen the most amiable become the most deformed, and she that appeared one of the Graces immediately turned into one of the Furies. I humbly conceive the great cause of this evil may proceed from a false notion the ladies have of what we call a modest woman.
Էջ 287 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Էջ 119 - I have taken my text for this discourse : we should be careful not to overshoot ourselves in the pursuits even of virtue. Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
Էջ 116 - The church thermometer, which I am now to treat of, is supposed to have been invented in the reign of Henry the Eighth, about the time when that religious Prince put some to death for owning the Pope's supremacy, and others for denying transubstantiation. I do not find, however, any great use made of this instrument...
Էջ 184 - Nobody ever knew what this meant ; but the green and red dragon so amused the people, that the doctor lived very comfortably upon them. About the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was...