The British Essayists;: GuardianJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1807 |
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... occasion . ' SIR , -shire , July , 1713 . THE other day I went into the house of one of my tenants , whose wife was formerly a servant in our family , and ( by my grandmother's kindness ) had her education with my mother from her ...
... occasion . ' SIR , -shire , July , 1713 . THE other day I went into the house of one of my tenants , whose wife was formerly a servant in our family , and ( by my grandmother's kindness ) had her education with my mother from her ...
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... occasion requires , to be in- serted in your papers " cum privilegio . " ' I shall not omit giving informations of the im- provement or decay of punning , and may chance to touch upon the rise and fall of tuckers ; but I will roar aloud ...
... occasion requires , to be in- serted in your papers " cum privilegio . " ' I shall not omit giving informations of the im- provement or decay of punning , and may chance to touch upon the rise and fall of tuckers ; but I will roar aloud ...
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... occasion , after the manner of the ancients , to make a digression in praise of that season . The verses here subjoined , are not all upon that subject ; but the transitions slide so easily into one another , that I knew not how to ...
... occasion , after the manner of the ancients , to make a digression in praise of that season . The verses here subjoined , are not all upon that subject ; but the transitions slide so easily into one another , that I knew not how to ...
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... occasion occur to the thoughts of those who have read it ) hopes to insinuate by that artifice what he is afraid or ashamed openly to maintain . But there are two points which clearly shew what it is he aims at . The first is , that he ...
... occasion occur to the thoughts of those who have read it ) hopes to insinuate by that artifice what he is afraid or ashamed openly to maintain . But there are two points which clearly shew what it is he aims at . The first is , that he ...
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... occasion from the chance of such judicial pro- ceedings , to relate a custom used , in a certain part of India , to determine law - suits , which he pro- duced as a parallel to the single combat . The custom is , " That the plaintiff ...
... occasion from the chance of such judicial pro- ceedings , to relate a custom used , in a certain part of India , to determine law - suits , which he pro- duced as a parallel to the single combat . The custom is , " That the plaintiff ...
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Página 231 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 232 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Página 232 - Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it, and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
Página 80 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Página 233 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 43 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Página 182 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Página 232 - She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Página 49 - You formerly observed to me that nothing made a more ridiculous figure in a man's life than the disparity we often find in him sick and well ; thus one of an unfortunate constitution is perpetually exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of his mind, and of his body, in their turns. I have had frequent opportunities of late to consider myself in these different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,...
Página 197 - Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, And imitates her actions, where she is not : It ought not to be sported with.