The Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century1871 |
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... Justice of the Peace is made to say in Fielding's ' Amelia ; ' " And to speak my opin- ion plainly , such are the laws , and such the method of proceed- ing , that one would almost think our laws were made for the protection of rogues ...
... Justice of the Peace is made to say in Fielding's ' Amelia ; ' " And to speak my opin- ion plainly , such are the laws , and such the method of proceed- ing , that one would almost think our laws were made for the protection of rogues ...
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... justice , while the objectionable letters in the ' Tatler ' and ' Spectator ' and ' Guardian , ' are purely imaginary . But the effect is the same , or rather , I should say , the effect of the modern practice is infinitely worse , for ...
... justice , while the objectionable letters in the ' Tatler ' and ' Spectator ' and ' Guardian , ' are purely imaginary . But the effect is the same , or rather , I should say , the effect of the modern practice is infinitely worse , for ...
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... Justice Fortescue , in the reign of Henry VI . , wrote almost with a kind of pride , that " more men are hanged in Englande in one year , than in France in seven , because the English have better partes . The Scotchmenne likewise never ...
... Justice Fortescue , in the reign of Henry VI . , wrote almost with a kind of pride , that " more men are hanged in Englande in one year , than in France in seven , because the English have better partes . The Scotchmenne likewise never ...
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... JUSTICE OF THE PEACE . - COUNTRY SQUIRE . THE mention of robberies leads naturally to speak of prisons , and it is shocking to think of what they were . They were more like dens of wild beasts than habitations of men . Some idea of the ...
... JUSTICE OF THE PEACE . - COUNTRY SQUIRE . THE mention of robberies leads naturally to speak of prisons , and it is shocking to think of what they were . They were more like dens of wild beasts than habitations of men . Some idea of the ...
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... Justice Kenyon , in a case that came before him in 1796 , when he said , with reference to the practice of gam- bling : " If any prosecutions of this nature are fairly brought before me , and the parties are justly con- victed ...
... Justice Kenyon , in a case that came before him in 1796 , when he said , with reference to the practice of gam- bling : " If any prosecutions of this nature are fairly brought before me , and the parties are justly con- victed ...
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Էջ 38 - Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?
Էջ 307 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. 'My dear Mr. Bennet,' said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?
Էջ 199 - For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Էջ 284 - A fig for the silver rims,' cried my wife, in a passion : 'I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce.'— 'You need be under no uneasiness,' cried I, 'about selling the rims; for they are not worth six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over.
Էջ 108 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Էջ 73 - I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's. In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club.
Էջ 122 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then...
Էջ 23 - Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen.
Էջ 19 - Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride?
Էջ 312 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical. Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.