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Pagina 3
... remarked , that almost all of that celebrated nobleman's witty sayings were puns . He , however , allowed the merit of good wit to his Lordship's saying of Lord Tyrawley and himself , when both very old and infirm : " Tyrawley and I ...
... remarked , that almost all of that celebrated nobleman's witty sayings were puns . He , however , allowed the merit of good wit to his Lordship's saying of Lord Tyrawley and himself , when both very old and infirm : " Tyrawley and I ...
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... . Our soldiery , surely , are not luxurious , who live on sixpence a day ; and the same remark will apply to almost all the other classes . Luxury , so far as it reaches the poor , will do good to the race of DEGENERATION AND LUXURY ...
... . Our soldiery , surely , are not luxurious , who live on sixpence a day ; and the same remark will apply to almost all the other classes . Luxury , so far as it reaches the poor , will do good to the race of DEGENERATION AND LUXURY ...
Pagina 19
... remarked to 1 I regretted that Dr. Johnson never took the trouble to study a question which interested nations . He would not even read a pamphlet which I wrote upon it , entitled , The Essence of the Douglas Cause ; which , I have ...
... remarked to 1 I regretted that Dr. Johnson never took the trouble to study a question which interested nations . He would not even read a pamphlet which I wrote upon it , entitled , The Essence of the Douglas Cause ; which , I have ...
Pagina 28
... remarks on my work , observes on this passage- " Q . if not on the word , fort ? A vociferous French preacher said of Bourdaloue , ' Il preche fort bien , et moi bien fort . ' -Menagiana . See also Anecdotes Littéraires , Article ...
... remarks on my work , observes on this passage- " Q . if not on the word , fort ? A vociferous French preacher said of Bourdaloue , ' Il preche fort bien , et moi bien fort . ' -Menagiana . See also Anecdotes Littéraires , Article ...
Pagina 51
... remark upon that subject : " I have seen many a bear led by a man ; but I never before saw a man led by a bear . " B. 2 Sir Alexander Gordon , one of the Professors at Aberdeen . B. 3 This was a box containing a number of curious things ...
... remark upon that subject : " I have seen many a bear led by a man ; but I never before saw a man led by a bear . " B. 2 Sir Alexander Gordon , one of the Professors at Aberdeen . B. 3 This was a box containing a number of curious things ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Pagina 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pagina 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Pagina 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Pagina 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Pagina 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Pagina 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Pagina 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.