Philosophical transactions for the year 1742 and 1743. The first Olynthiac of Demosthenes. Remedy of affiction for the loss of our friends. Dialogue between Alexander the Great, and Diogenes the Cynic. Interlude between Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, and Mercury. The true patriot. The Jacobite's journal. AmeliaJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... Spartans marched ( or rather danced ) up to the enemy to some tune ? answered , That music discovered the brave man from the VOL . VIII . H coward ; for those same notes which made the eyes THE TRUE ATRIOT . 97 PHILOSOPHICAL.
... Spartans marched ( or rather danced ) up to the enemy to some tune ? answered , That music discovered the brave man from the VOL . VIII . H coward ; for those same notes which made the eyes THE TRUE ATRIOT . 97 PHILOSOPHICAL.
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... answered our expectation , since it is apparent , by the arrival of these singers , that they are fairly taken in , and imposed upon to believe we have still as much money as ever . In this light then the opera , and those who en ...
... answered our expectation , since it is apparent , by the arrival of these singers , that they are fairly taken in , and imposed upon to believe we have still as much money as ever . In this light then the opera , and those who en ...
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... answered , the Wednesday before . How , Sir , said I , travel on Christmas - day ? Was it so , says he , fags ! that's more than I knew ; but why not travel on Christmas - day as well as any other ? Why not , said I , lifting my voice ...
... answered , the Wednesday before . How , Sir , said I , travel on Christmas - day ? Was it so , says he , fags ! that's more than I knew ; but why not travel on Christmas - day as well as any other ? Why not , said I , lifting my voice ...
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... answered , ' It was all very fine ; but nothing came up , in his opinion , to the ingenuity of snuffing ' the candles . ' · I cannot omit the following story , which I think a very strong example of the temper I have above remarked . I ...
... answered , ' It was all very fine ; but nothing came up , in his opinion , to the ingenuity of snuffing ' the candles . ' · I cannot omit the following story , which I think a very strong example of the temper I have above remarked . I ...
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... answered , that I was an infamous , ungrateful fellow ; one that deserved hanging ; and if I did not mend my manners and my wife , the government might possibly take a severer notice of me . With these words the messenger left me ; and ...
... answered , that I was an infamous , ungrateful fellow ; one that deserved hanging ; and if I did not mend my manners and my wife , the government might possibly take a severer notice of me . With these words the messenger left me ; and ...
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Página 456 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Página 143 - The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country...
Página 434 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 155 - The various accidents which befell a very worthy couple, after their uniting in the state of matrimony, will be the subject of the following history.
Página 338 - She chuckled when a bawd was carted ; And thought the nation ne'er would thrive, Till all the whores were burnt alive.
Página 270 - Mathews, the tenderest of passions is capable of subsiding; nor is absence from our dearest friends so unsupportable as it may at first appear. Distance of time and place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not death but dying which is terrible.
Página 73 - ... different days. Secondly, There is no SENSE in them; to prove this, likewise, I appeal to their works. Thirdly, There is, in reality, NOTHING in them at all. And this also must be allowed by their readers, if paragraphs which contain neither wit, nor humour, nor sense, nor the least importance, may be properly said to contain nothing. Such are the arrival of my Lord with a great equipage, the marriage of Miss of great beauty and merit, and the death of Mr. who was never heard of in his life,...
Página 90 - ... we consider, I say, this handful of men landing in the most desolate corner, among a set of poor, naked, hungry, disarmed slaves, abiding there with impunity till they had, as it were in the face of a large body of his majesty's troops, collected a kind of army or rather rabble together ; if we view this army intimidating the king's forces from approaching them by their situation...
Página 321 - ... who can describe the pleasures ' which the morning air gives to one in perfect ' health ; the flow of spirits which springs up from ' exercise ; the delights which parents feel from ' the prattle, and innocent follies of their children; ' the joy with which the tender smile of a wife in1 spires a husband ; or .lastly, the cheerful, solid ' comfort which a fond couple enjoy in each other's
Página 184 - ... such a creature should be in the way of ruin, as I am afraid she is, by her being alone with that young fellow...