The Lounger's Common-place Book: Or, Miscellaneous Anecdotes. A Biographic, Political, Literary, and Satirical Compilation: a New Edition, ... in Two Volumes. ...editor, and sold, 1796 |
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... thousand voices , and a lighted torch applied to the toll - house , was a fignal of universal approbation : armed with sticks , clubs , and fuch weapons as accident threw in their way , way , they rifled the houses of all the officers 1 ...
... thousand voices , and a lighted torch applied to the toll - house , was a fignal of universal approbation : armed with sticks , clubs , and fuch weapons as accident threw in their way , way , they rifled the houses of all the officers 1 ...
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... thousand little harraffing circumftances , which a fortunate traveller , on the fame road , either fees not , or does not feel , refolved that the unavoidable rubs of envy and oppofition , fall not interrupt the congratulations of felf ...
... thousand little harraffing circumftances , which a fortunate traveller , on the fame road , either fees not , or does not feel , refolved that the unavoidable rubs of envy and oppofition , fall not interrupt the congratulations of felf ...
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... open affent or filent fubfcription of a thousand fincere Chriftians and excellent Divines is not to be has- tily rejected . " I confess that it is " a com- " a complication of fubtleties , " fays one of 36 ATHANASIAN CREED .
... open affent or filent fubfcription of a thousand fincere Chriftians and excellent Divines is not to be has- tily rejected . " I confess that it is " a com- " a complication of fubtleties , " fays one of 36 ATHANASIAN CREED .
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... thousand pounds had been repeatedly offer- ed , and at laft fold , in the urgency of the moment , ' for lefs than half its value . " May the injuftice fhewn me , " and the unfeeling treatment I " have experienced , " fays Mr. Morris ...
... thousand pounds had been repeatedly offer- ed , and at laft fold , in the urgency of the moment , ' for lefs than half its value . " May the injuftice fhewn me , " and the unfeeling treatment I " have experienced , " fays Mr. Morris ...
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... thousand generations . Is not " this a greater offence against the public good than mine ? Com- " pel them , by law , either to marry , or to pay double the fine " of fornication every year . < 6 66 " What must poor young wo- " men do ...
... thousand generations . Is not " this a greater offence against the public good than mine ? Com- " pel them , by law , either to marry , or to pay double the fine " of fornication every year . < 6 66 " What must poor young wo- " men do ...
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Страница 203 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the Universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Страница 222 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Страница 149 - This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont ; which before I had not thought of.
Страница 203 - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit; For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Страница 204 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red.
Страница 203 - Here Cumberland lies, having acted his parts, The Terence of England, the mender of hearts; A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
Страница 222 - ... and dimensions of misery, depression and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Страница 46 - Exert not your curiosity too early : it is in your power to make me grateful on certain terms. I have friends who are faithful ; but they do not bark before they bite.
Страница 71 - I see the muddy wave, the dreary shore, The sluggish streams that slowly creep below, Which mortals visit, and return no more. Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains!
Страница 66 - Sir, there is as much evidence for the existence of spirits as against it. You may not believe it, but you cannot deny it.