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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... round a may - pole , with a red night - cap , instead of a garland , on the top of it . I then thought I returned home , when one of my fons came to tell me the French foldiers were driving our cow ( I have but one ) off the common ...
... round a may - pole , with a red night - cap , instead of a garland , on the top of it . I then thought I returned home , when one of my fons came to tell me the French foldiers were driving our cow ( I have but one ) off the common ...
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... round a kind of wooden stage . I went near to learn the cause of their merriment , imagining it was fome public fhow or fight , fuch as we have at fair- time . On the stage stood a kind of scaffolding made of two beams placed upright ...
... round a kind of wooden stage . I went near to learn the cause of their merriment , imagining it was fome public fhow or fight , fuch as we have at fair- time . On the stage stood a kind of scaffolding made of two beams placed upright ...
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... round , called out as before . " The Lord have mercy upon us ! " quoth I to myself ; " the nation won't live long at this rate . " My heart now seemed to fink within me , and I thought I re- turned home as quick as I could , when , as I ...
... round , called out as before . " The Lord have mercy upon us ! " quoth I to myself ; " the nation won't live long at this rate . " My heart now seemed to fink within me , and I thought I re- turned home as quick as I could , when , as I ...
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... round the houfe , that I cannot difcern the word . But to be fincere with you . For this falfe in- fcription fubftitute the following , which will be a great deal more candid . Write , Thirst of Wealth and Power , and take my word for ...
... round the houfe , that I cannot difcern the word . But to be fincere with you . For this falfe in- fcription fubftitute the following , which will be a great deal more candid . Write , Thirst of Wealth and Power , and take my word for ...
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... round table fquares exactly with our ideas . " Yet , Citizen unless we can mufter at leaft fifty thousand toothpicks , and about twenty thousand cats , all our endeavours will be loft . It is not fuf ficient to know what's what || ; we ...
... round table fquares exactly with our ideas . " Yet , Citizen unless we can mufter at leaft fifty thousand toothpicks , and about twenty thousand cats , all our endeavours will be loft . It is not fuf ficient to know what's what || ; we ...
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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.