The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Com- mon . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
... figure were he not a rich man ) he calls the sea the British Com- mon . He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts , and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for true power is to be got by ...
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... figure , es- pecially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
... figure , es- pecially in a military way , must get over all false modesty , and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders , by a proper assurance in his own vindication . He says it is a civil cowardice to be ...
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... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Eolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
... figure as the bags that were really filled with money , had been blown up with air , and called into my memory the bags full of wind , which Homer tells us his hero received as a present from Eolus . The great heaps of gold , on either ...
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... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . I dis- patched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual tacitur- nity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one ...
... figure I made , after having done all this mischief . I dis- patched my dinner as soon as I could , with my usual tacitur- nity ; when , to my utter confusion , the lady seeing me quitting my knife and fork , and laying them across one ...
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... figure of a coronet on the back part of it . I was so transported with the thought of such an amour , that I plied her from one room to another with all the gallantries I could invent ; and at length brought things to so happy an issue ...
... figure of a coronet on the back part of it . I was so transported with the thought of such an amour , that I plied her from one room to another with all the gallantries I could invent ; and at length brought things to so happy an issue ...
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Страница 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Страница 435 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up ? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him...
Страница 291 - Calamy, with several living authors, who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet...
Страница 288 - You see the goodness of the master even in the old house-dog, and in a gray pad that is kept in the stable with great care and tenderness out of regard to his past services, though he has been useless for several years.
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