The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes, Volumen4A. Donaldson, 1761 |
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... last leave of the reader ; propofes his manner of living for the future ; gives good advice , and concludes A tritical effay upon the faculties of the mind Predictions for the year 1708 ; by Ifaac Bickerstaff , Efq ; An account of the ...
... last leave of the reader ; propofes his manner of living for the future ; gives good advice , and concludes A tritical effay upon the faculties of the mind Predictions for the year 1708 ; by Ifaac Bickerstaff , Efq ; An account of the ...
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... last return some corruptions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by converfing with a few of your fpecies , and particularly thofe of mine own family , by an unavoidable neceffity ; else I should never have attempted fo abfurd a ...
... last return some corruptions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by converfing with a few of your fpecies , and particularly thofe of mine own family , by an unavoidable neceffity ; else I should never have attempted fo abfurd a ...
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... last of these voyages not proving very fortunate , I grew weary of the fea , and intended to stay at home . with my wife and family . I removed from the Old - Jury to Fetter - lane , and from thence to Wapping , hoping to get business ...
... last of these voyages not proving very fortunate , I grew weary of the fea , and intended to stay at home . with my wife and family . I removed from the Old - Jury to Fetter - lane , and from thence to Wapping , hoping to get business ...
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... last disburdened myself . I was under great difficulties between urgency and fhame . The beft expedient L could think on , was to creep into my houfe , which I accordingly did ; and shutting the gate after me , I went as far as the ...
... last disburdened myself . I was under great difficulties between urgency and fhame . The beft expedient L could think on , was to creep into my houfe , which I accordingly did ; and shutting the gate after me , I went as far as the ...
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... last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and feek in my hair . I had now made a good pro- grefs in understanding and fpeaking their language The Emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with feveral of the ...
... last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and feek in my hair . I had now made a good pro- grefs in understanding and fpeaking their language The Emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with feveral of the ...
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Página 170 - It is true, upon experiment they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. However, it is not doubted that this invention may be capable of great improvement. I...
Página 126 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 213 - In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end...
Página 19 - I awaked, by a very ridiculous accident; for, the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep. They climbed up into the engine, and advancing very...
Página 149 - Their heads were all reclined either to the right or the left ; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars, interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
Página 109 - Their skins appeared so coarse and uneven, so variously coloured, when I saw them near, with a mole here and there as broad as a trencher, and hairs hanging from it thicker than packthreads, to say nothing further concerning the rest of their persons.
Página 44 - I had now fastened all the hooks, and taking the knot in my hand, began to pull ; but not a ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors, so that the boldest part of my enterprise remained. I therefore let go the cord, and leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with my knife the cables that fastened...
Página 125 - I told him of an invention discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into an heap of which the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.
Página 168 - I was received very kindly by the Warden, and went for many days to the Academy. Every room hath in it one or more projectors, and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour.
Página 310 - I have consulted the star of his nativity by my own rules, and find he will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever ; therefore I advise him to consider of it, and settle his affairs in time.