The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Հատոր 3Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1805 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... last age , is likewife applicable to the Chryfipus : " They make ufe of their progreffive motion , when communicated to them , to place themfelves conve- niently , fo as to catch their prey . - They are voracious animals ; they lay ...
... last age , is likewife applicable to the Chryfipus : " They make ufe of their progreffive motion , when communicated to them , to place themfelves conve- niently , fo as to catch their prey . - They are voracious animals ; they lay ...
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... last week , with a view to write to you on certain fubjects , but have as often laid it down : - " Pooh ! ( faid I to myself , ) what fignifies writing about the war , and the funds , and the police , & c . when the papers contain ...
... last week , with a view to write to you on certain fubjects , but have as often laid it down : - " Pooh ! ( faid I to myself , ) what fignifies writing about the war , and the funds , and the police , & c . when the papers contain ...
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... last a dreffy lady for a month- " You dog you , " said I , " how dare you ap- pear before me with that cockade ? -Go directly , and take it out of your hat , elfe I'll turn you out of the houfe . " He obeyed , but went muttering out of ...
... last a dreffy lady for a month- " You dog you , " said I , " how dare you ap- pear before me with that cockade ? -Go directly , and take it out of your hat , elfe I'll turn you out of the houfe . " He obeyed , but went muttering out of ...
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... last works . This paffage feems to fix the date of this letter , or at leaft pretty nearly . It must have been written subsequent to the late promotions . But there are anachronisms in it , purpofely contrived , as my learned friend ...
... last works . This paffage feems to fix the date of this letter , or at leaft pretty nearly . It must have been written subsequent to the late promotions . But there are anachronisms in it , purpofely contrived , as my learned friend ...
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... last ; But , ftill decreed , the fatal day must come , That fixes our irrevocable doom ; That lays in ruins all our ftately tow'rs , Low in the duft , the jeft of future pow'rs ; A Carthage once the miftrefs of the fea , Or Sufa - fam'd ...
... last ; But , ftill decreed , the fatal day must come , That fixes our irrevocable doom ; That lays in ruins all our ftately tow'rs , Low in the duft , the jeft of future pow'rs ; A Carthage once the miftrefs of the fea , Or Sufa - fam'd ...
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Էջ 337 - Twas no fancy, no dream, he could plainly survey That the devil himself was in sight. You rascally dauber ! old Beelzebub cries, Take heed how you wrong me again ! Though your caricatures for myself I despise, Make me handsomer now in the multitude's eyes, Or see if I threaten in vain ! Now the painter was bold, and religious beside, And on faith he had certain reliance; So earnestly he all his countenance eyed, And thank'd him for sitting, with Catholic pride, And sturdily bade him defiance.
Էջ 216 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Էջ 334 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Էջ 199 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 383 - Letters from Paddington bring little more, than that William Squeak, the sow-gelder, passed through that place the fifth instant. They advise from Fulham, that things remained there in the same state they were. They had intelligence, just as the letters came away, of a tub of excellent ale just set abroach at Parsons Green ; but this wanted confirmation.
Էջ 96 - ... to hazards, from which he might fly to the cannon's mouth as a refuge or a relaxation ! Sir, let us now be told no more of the infamy of the rope-dancer.
Էջ 276 - ... the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family ; in like manner as civil nobility, among the Romans, was founded in the jus imaginum, or having the image of one ancestor at least, who had borne some curule office.
Էջ 335 - And yet, they are not two obedients, but one obedient. For there is one dominion nominal of the husband, and another dominion real of the wife. And yet, there are not two dominions, but one dominion.
Էջ 270 - But the influence of the belles lettres was -shed in vain on his licentious nature; and the opportunity of appropriating the contents of his landlord's till was found too powerful for the sense either of safety or compunction. The dykes of a stream once removed, its...
Էջ 94 - Sir, you might as well say that St Paul was the most despicable of human beings. Let us beware how we petulantly and ignorantly traduce a character which puts all other characters to shame. Sir, a rope-dancer concentrates in himself all the cardinal virtues.