The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Հատոր 5 |
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... doctor Johannes Elscrickius , professor in anatomy , and my associate in the studies of nature , as an eternal monument of my affection and friendship for him , I bequeath My rat's testicles , and Whale's pizzle , to him and his issue ...
... doctor Johannes Elscrickius , professor in anatomy , and my associate in the studies of nature , as an eternal monument of my affection and friendship for him , I bequeath My rat's testicles , and Whale's pizzle , to him and his issue ...
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. issue in the said doctor Elscrickius , then to return to my executor and his heirs for ever . Having fully provided for my nephew Isaac , by making over to him some years since , A horned Scarabæus ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. issue in the said doctor Elscrickius , then to return to my executor and his heirs for ever . Having fully provided for my nephew Isaac , by making over to him some years since , A horned Scarabæus ...
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... doctor lifts up the pole , and gives her two or three total immersions in the cold - bath , until such time as she has quite lost the use of speech . This operation so effectually chills the tongue , and refrigerates the blood , that a ...
... doctor lifts up the pole , and gives her two or three total immersions in the cold - bath , until such time as she has quite lost the use of speech . This operation so effectually chills the tongue , and refrigerates the blood , that a ...
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... doctor's . The third and last use of these writings is to in- form the world , where they may be furnished with almost every thing that is necessary for life . If a man has pains in his head , colics in his bowels , or spots in his ...
... doctor's . The third and last use of these writings is to in- form the world , where they may be furnished with almost every thing that is necessary for life . If a man has pains in his head , colics in his bowels , or spots in his ...
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... doctor had called them only his Carminative Pills , he had been as cleanly as one could have wished ; but the second word entirely destroys the decency of the first , There are other absurdities of this nature so very gross , that I N ...
... doctor had called them only his Carminative Pills , he had been as cleanly as one could have wished ; but the second word entirely destroys the decency of the first , There are other absurdities of this nature so very gross , that I N ...
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Էջ 123 - In search of whom they sought : Him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions, as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Էջ 94 - ... invented by some pretty fellows, such as Banter, Bamboozle, Country Put, and Kidney, as it is there applied; some of which are now struggling for the vogue, and others are in possession of it. I have done my utmost for some years past to stop the progress of Mobb and Banter, but have been plainly borne down by numbers, and betrayed by those who promised to assist me.
Էջ 284 - ... mask. I shall not carry my humility so far as to call myself a vicious man; but at the same time must confess my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable vices, which Mr. Bickerstaff has done with a freedom of spirit that would have lost both its beauty and efficacy had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.
Էջ 31 - My eldest son, John, having spoken disrespectfully of his little sister whom I keep by me in spirits of wine, and in many other instances behaved himself undutifully towards me, I do disinherit, and wholly cut off from any part of this my personal estate, by giving him a single cockle-shell.
Էջ 94 - ... peace, which I believe would save the lives of many brave words, as well as men. The war has introduced abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns. Speculations...
Էջ 51 - Thus that facetious divine, Dr. Fuller, speaking of the town of Banbury, near a hundred years ago, tells us, it was a place famous for cakes and zeal, which I find by my glass is true to this day, as to the latter part of this description ; though I must confess, it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author...
Էջ 41 - He then showed me what he thought the finest of his tulips; which I found received all their value from their rarity and oddness, and put me in mind of your great fortunes, which are not always the greatest beauties.
Էջ 93 - This letter is in every point an admirable pattern of the present polite way of writing ; nor is it of less authority for being an epistle. You may gather every flower...
Էջ 203 - At about half a mile's distance from our cabin, we heard the groanings of a bear, which at first startled us ; but upon inquiry we were informed by some of our company that he was dead, and now lay in salt, having been killed upon that very spot about a fortnight before in the time of the frost . Not far from the same place we were likewise entertained with some posthumous snarls and barkings of a fox. ' We at length arrived at the little Dutch settlement, and upon entering the room, found it filled...
Էջ 69 - If the doctor had called them his Carminative Pills, he had been as cleanly as any one could have wished; but the second word entirely destroys the decency of the first. There are other absurdities of this nature so very gross, that I dare not mention them ; and shall therefore dismiss this subject with a public admonition to Michael Parrot, That he do not presume any more to mention a certain worm he knows of, which, by the way, has grown seven foot in my memory ; for, if I am.