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Pagina 19
... less satisfied with his son's grave demeanour , and avoidance of the manners and ceremonies of polite life . Arguments failing , he had recourse to blows , and as a last resource , he turned his son out of doors ; but soon relented so ...
... less satisfied with his son's grave demeanour , and avoidance of the manners and ceremonies of polite life . Arguments failing , he had recourse to blows , and as a last resource , he turned his son out of doors ; but soon relented so ...
Pagina 25
... less than two- thirds of these were necessary to make a quorum , and the consent of not less than two - thirds of such quorum in all matters of moment . The Assembly were to have no deliberative power , but when bills were brought to ...
... less than two- thirds of these were necessary to make a quorum , and the consent of not less than two - thirds of such quorum in all matters of moment . The Assembly were to have no deliberative power , but when bills were brought to ...
Pagina 45
... less suspicious testimony . " Addison's conversation had some- thing in it more charming than I have found in any other man . " Tonson and Spence represent him as demanding to be the first name in modern wit ; and with Steele as his ...
... less suspicious testimony . " Addison's conversation had some- thing in it more charming than I have found in any other man . " Tonson and Spence represent him as demanding to be the first name in modern wit ; and with Steele as his ...
Pagina 47
... less difficulty , on the landing of that prince , in making up his mind to the painful task of abandoning a kind master and a falling cause . But , in doing so , he was guilty of no treachery . Entrusted with the command of 6000 men ...
... less difficulty , on the landing of that prince , in making up his mind to the painful task of abandoning a kind master and a falling cause . But , in doing so , he was guilty of no treachery . Entrusted with the command of 6000 men ...
Pagina 54
... less imposing was the army on the other side , commanded by Marl- borough and Eugene , assisted by a train of princes and generals . Numerically , the two armies seem to have * Coxe . Life of Marlborough . been about equal ; and both ...
... less imposing was the army on the other side , commanded by Marl- borough and Eugene , assisted by a train of princes and generals . Numerically , the two armies seem to have * Coxe . Life of Marlborough . been about equal ; and both ...
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Abbé acquainted Addison admiration afterwards appeared appointed army became Bentley Brindley Buffon celebrated character church College commenced composed conduct continued court Daguesseau death Defoe discovery Dollond Duke Dunciad early edition employed England English father favour formed Frederic French friends genius Halley Handel Hogarth honour House Ingria King l'Epée labours letters Linnæus lived London Lord Lord Somers Louis XIV manner Marlborough master memoir ment merit method of fluxions mind Mozart natural never Newton nutation object observed obtained occasion opera Oxford Parliament Penn person Peter Dollond philosophical political Pope Pope's possessed principles published racter Rake's Progress received remarkable residence Robinson Crusoe Rousseau Royal Society Russia says Senesino sent ship Somers soon stars success Sweden Swift talents taste tion took Trinity College Voltaire Whig Wren writings
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Pagina 168 - His Tale of a Tub has little resemblance to his other pieces. It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind, a copiousness of images, and vivacity of diction, such as he afterwards never possessed or never exerted. It is of a mode so distinct and peculiar, that it must be considered by itself; what is true of that, is not true of anything else which he has written.
Pagina 274 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Pagina 107 - The Original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England Examined and Asserted ; the other, The Freeholder's Plea against the Stock-jobbing Elections of Parliament-men.
Pagina 15 - An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice...
Pagina 284 - I know that the conquest of English America is an impossibility. You cannot, I venture to say it, you cannot conquer America.
Pagina 494 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.
Pagina 44 - It is not uncommon, for those who have grown wise by the labour of others, to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects, but by the lights which he afforded them.
Pagina 242 - Millar told me that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
Pagina 149 - Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with mankind, and such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards ; and being praised by Addison in the Spectator* with sufficient liberality,...
Pagina 195 - But soon, ah soon, rebellion will commence, If music meanly borrows aid from sense : Strong in new arms, lo ! giant Handel stands, Like bold Briareus, with a hundred hands ; To stir, to rouse, to shake the soul he comes, And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums, Arrest him, empress ; or you sleep no more...