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... supposed it should be . Doctor M.'s Essay on " the sleep of plants " is extremely beautiful . Page 71. " Some authors imagine that we never dream of objects which we have not seen ; but the absurdity of this notion is so glaring as to ...
... supposed it should be . Doctor M.'s Essay on " the sleep of plants " is extremely beautiful . Page 71. " Some authors imagine that we never dream of objects which we have not seen ; but the absurdity of this notion is so glaring as to ...
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... supposed to be seen . Somnambulism is anything rather than dreaming : in that state everything is real ; in a dream nothing . But in both cases , the person influenced is insane . If otherwise , the sleep - walker would avoid doing the ...
... supposed to be seen . Somnambulism is anything rather than dreaming : in that state everything is real ; in a dream nothing . But in both cases , the person influenced is insane . If otherwise , the sleep - walker would avoid doing the ...
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... supposed to be the bed of the Tiber . " This seems to have been an erroneous conjecture . A search in the profound mud of the Tiber , by a society of British residents , under the patronage and encou- ragement of the Duchess of ...
... supposed to be the bed of the Tiber . " This seems to have been an erroneous conjecture . A search in the profound mud of the Tiber , by a society of British residents , under the patronage and encou- ragement of the Duchess of ...
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... supposed that I have been will- ing to correct in others , an abuse of which I have been guilty of myself . " Most assuredly Goldsmith never wrote such a sentence as the foregoing ; and the editor , who has so printed the passage , THE ...
... supposed that I have been will- ing to correct in others , an abuse of which I have been guilty of myself . " Most assuredly Goldsmith never wrote such a sentence as the foregoing ; and the editor , who has so printed the passage , THE ...
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... supposed , comprehend either his individual or national peculiarities . In all likelihood , he was constitutionally testy , capricious , and morbidly alive to ridicule ; and through way- wardness , and a secret wish to startle and ...
... supposed , comprehend either his individual or national peculiarities . In all likelihood , he was constitutionally testy , capricious , and morbidly alive to ridicule ; and through way- wardness , and a secret wish to startle and ...
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Strona 135 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Strona 120 - Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam...
Strona 137 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Strona 136 - He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still...
Strona 153 - But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing, and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising.
Strona 52 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
Strona 145 - I did never see before) ; and though she be not very charming, yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look which is pleasing. Here I also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts...
Strona 145 - I went upon the river : it raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and sheltered myself, while the King came by in his barge, going down towards the Downs to meet the Queen ; the Duke being gone yesterday. But methought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
Strona 149 - I home by coach, but met not one bonfire through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and speaks the melancholy disposition of the city at present, while never more was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
Strona 158 - W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before : for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it!