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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... receiving a certain allowance , when they will not work . This is falfe humanity ; and all these things are hurtful to his old and beft cultivated lands . On his wife's eftate , by an equally bad old custom , if a man once get a farm ...
... receiving a certain allowance , when they will not work . This is falfe humanity ; and all these things are hurtful to his old and beft cultivated lands . On his wife's eftate , by an equally bad old custom , if a man once get a farm ...
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... receiving , he actually gave , what is very unufual , high fees merely to be employed as an advocate , where he was no judge at all . Had he ftaid at home , and improved his fields , and attended to his manufactures , he would have ...
... receiving , he actually gave , what is very unufual , high fees merely to be employed as an advocate , where he was no judge at all . Had he ftaid at home , and improved his fields , and attended to his manufactures , he would have ...
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... make the observation aloud , after what I had heard ; and fo " The continuance of liberty " was drunk with much fhouting . - Methought a fecond toaft , of " De- ftruction - ftruction to all ariftocrats , " was received with A DREAM : 13.
... make the observation aloud , after what I had heard ; and fo " The continuance of liberty " was drunk with much fhouting . - Methought a fecond toaft , of " De- ftruction - ftruction to all ariftocrats , " was received with A DREAM : 13.
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... received with ftill greater acclamations of joy than the former ; but after the noife had a little fubfided , I ventured to ask what an aristocrat was ? Methought this question was follow- ed by a good deal of difpute and altercation ...
... received with ftill greater acclamations of joy than the former ; but after the noife had a little fubfided , I ventured to ask what an aristocrat was ? Methought this question was follow- ed by a good deal of difpute and altercation ...
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... received a letter from Nottingham , informing me of the death of his fifter , and requefting I would inform him of it in fuch a manner as not to fhock his feelings , for he is rather tender - hearted . - I found him in his country ...
... received a letter from Nottingham , informing me of the death of his fifter , and requefting I would inform him of it in fuch a manner as not to fhock his feelings , for he is rather tender - hearted . - I found him in his country ...
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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.