The World, Том 3

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J. Dodsley, 1772
 

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Страница 69 - ... present for every little boy who would become a great man, and ride upon a fine horse ; and to every little girl who would become a great woman, and ride in a lord-mayor's gilt coach.
Страница 28 - To advise the ignorant, relieve the needy, comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives. A man has frequent opportunities of mitigating the fierceness of a party ; of doing justice to the character of a deserving...
Страница 130 - ... or instructed, and therefore seldom misses what she looks for. Walk with her, though it be but on a heath or a common, and she will discover numberless beauties, unobserved before, in the hills, the dales, the broom, the brakes, and the variegated flowers of weeds and poppies.
Страница 9 - All attempts in direct opposition to her, are attended with ridicule; many with guilt. The woman to whom nature has denied beauty, in vain endeavours to make it by art : as the man to whom nature has denied wit, becomes ridiculous by...
Страница 63 - In all other respects my friend is neither a fool nor a madman, and can talk very rationally upon any rational subject.
Страница 47 - ... writers, than now. But may not the principle of inquiry and detection be carried too far, or at least made too general ? And should not a prudent discrimination of cases be attended to?
Страница 62 - My friend was going on, and to say the truth, growing dull, when I took the liberty of interrupting him, by acknowledging that the cogency of his arguments, and the...
Страница 53 - I presume, occasioned that association of ideas (otherwise seemingly unrelative to each other) of the brave and the fair ; for indeed in...
Страница 52 - The ancients most certainly have had very imperfect notions of honour, for they had none of duelling. One reads, it is true, of murders committed every now and then among the Greeks and Romans, prompted only by interest or revenge, and performed without the least Attic politeness, or Roman urbanity.
Страница 236 - I will obey your commands, and not think of seeing you. I wonder you have not taken it into your head to bid me live without breathing. But take care, my love, that you never give up the power you have over me ; for if ever it comes to my turn to reign, I will be revenged on you without mercy. I will load you so with love and kind offices, that your little heart shall almost break, in struggling how to be grateful.

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