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... pride myself on the charm- ing figure , which my works will make in this new form : and I shall endeavour to render these volumes as complete as I possibly can , by several considerable additions and amendments . Though contracted into ...
... pride myself on the charm- ing figure , which my works will make in this new form : and I shall endeavour to render these volumes as complete as I possibly can , by several considerable additions and amendments . Though contracted into ...
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... pride of their survivors , which is the same among the lowest as the highest set of people . When an obscure grocer or tallow- chandler dies at his lodgings at Islington , the news- papers are stuffed with the same detail of his virtues ...
... pride of their survivors , which is the same among the lowest as the highest set of people . When an obscure grocer or tallow- chandler dies at his lodgings at Islington , the news- papers are stuffed with the same detail of his virtues ...
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... pride our modest youth disclaim , Great in their crimes , and glorious in their shame . THERE is no method of reproof more in vogue , than the fashion of drawing invidious parallels be- tween the present times and the past . The grumb ...
... pride our modest youth disclaim , Great in their crimes , and glorious in their shame . THERE is no method of reproof more in vogue , than the fashion of drawing invidious parallels be- tween the present times and the past . The grumb ...
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... gross flattery as was afterwards practised in honouring the emperors with an apotheosis . Their inflexible ho- nesty was their perpetual boast , and their virtue was their pride . This high idea of a perfect character 16 THE CONNOISSEUR .
... gross flattery as was afterwards practised in honouring the emperors with an apotheosis . Their inflexible ho- nesty was their perpetual boast , and their virtue was their pride . This high idea of a perfect character 16 THE CONNOISSEUR .
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their pride . This high idea of a perfect character among the ancients naturally urged them to lift them- selves to an invidious superiority above the rest of the world : while the modest moderns , by taking all the vices , instead of ...
their pride . This high idea of a perfect character among the ancients naturally urged them to lift them- selves to an invidious superiority above the rest of the world : while the modest moderns , by taking all the vices , instead of ...
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Strona 164 - An expedient was therefore offered, that since words are only names for things, it would be more convenient for all men to carry about them such things as were necessary to express the particular business they are to discourse on.
Strona 165 - I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us ; who, when they met in the streets, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together ; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burthens, and take their leave.
Strona 48 - ... with thick crust, extremely baked. His table cost him not much, though it was good to eat at. "His sports supplied all but beef and mutton; except...
Strona 48 - ... hearth paved with brick lay some terriers and the choicest hounds and spaniels; seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them which were not to be disturbed, he having always three or four attending him at dinner, and a little white round stick of fourteen inches long lying by his trencher that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to part with to them.
Strona 70 - Wisdom crieth without ; she uttereth her voice in the streets : she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates : in the city she uttereth her words...
Strona 94 - twere vain to follow, For dog and horse he'd beat them hollow ; — Nay, if he put forth all his strength, Outstrip his brethren half a length. A tortoise heard his vain oration, And vented thus his indignation : " O puss ! it bodes thee dire disgrace When I defy thee to the race. Come, 'tis a match ; nay, no denial, I lay my shell upon the trial.
Strona 48 - ... that had been used. On one side of this end of the room was the door of a closet, wherein stood the strong beer and the wine, which never came...
Strona 23 - As to his body there can be no dispute; but examine even the acquirements of his mind, you will find them all contribute in their order towards furnishing out an exact dress : to instance no more ; is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, selflove a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches...
Strona 47 - ... poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room as properly furnished; on a great hearth paved with brick, lay some terriers, and the choicest hounds and spaniels. Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of...
Strona 111 - Arthur's out of their estates, and to take in all the knowing-ones on the turf at Newmarket. He accordingly bespoke his liveries, settled the fashion of his chariot, and had already pitched upon the lady, whose good luck it should be to fall in love with him: but so uncertain is the state of a gamester, that since the drawing of the lottery he has advertised for charitable contributions to a distressed gentleman, who knows the world, and has had the honour to be intimate with most of the nobility...