The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Band 2G. Risk, 1728 |
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... tion to my Antagonist Mr. Powell , and advised me , with warm Language , to keep to Subjects more proper for me than fuch high Points . But the Writers of thefe Epiftles miftake the Use and Service I propose to the lear- learned World ...
... tion to my Antagonist Mr. Powell , and advised me , with warm Language , to keep to Subjects more proper for me than fuch high Points . But the Writers of thefe Epiftles miftake the Use and Service I propose to the lear- learned World ...
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... tion . The flow Steps of Providence and Nature , and ftrange Events which are brought about in an Inftant , are what , as they come within our View and Obferva- tion , shall be given to the Publick . Such Things are not accompanied with ...
... tion . The flow Steps of Providence and Nature , and ftrange Events which are brought about in an Inftant , are what , as they come within our View and Obferva- tion , shall be given to the Publick . Such Things are not accompanied with ...
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... tion . I thought it would be very unjust to tell him , he is the fame the French call Coquin ; the Latins , Nebulo ; or the Greeks , Párna : For as Cuftom is the most power- ful of all Laws , and that the Order of Men we call Sharpers ...
... tion . I thought it would be very unjust to tell him , he is the fame the French call Coquin ; the Latins , Nebulo ; or the Greeks , Párna : For as Cuftom is the most power- ful of all Laws , and that the Order of Men we call Sharpers ...
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... tion , and fall upon us Knights of the Industry as the wickedeft of Mortals , when there are fo many who live in the conftant Practice of bafer Methods unob- ferved . You cannot ( though you know the Story of my self and the North ...
... tion , and fall upon us Knights of the Industry as the wickedeft of Mortals , when there are fo many who live in the conftant Practice of bafer Methods unob- ferved . You cannot ( though you know the Story of my self and the North ...
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... tion has , befides this , their God and their King . Grandees go every Day , at a certain Hour , to a Tem- ple they call a Church : At the upper End of that Temple there ftands an Altar confecrated to their God , where the Prieft ...
... tion has , befides this , their God and their King . Grandees go every Day , at a certain Hour , to a Tem- ple they call a Church : At the upper End of that Temple there ftands an Altar confecrated to their God , where the Prieft ...
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Seite 225 - I will bear no frowns, even from ladies ; and if any woman pretends to look scornfully at me, I shall demand satisfaction of the next of kin of the masculine gender.
Seite 84 - ... of Longinus, an action which would have been approved by Demosthenes. He has a peculiar force in his way, and has many of his audience, who could not be intelligent hearers of his discourse, were there not explanation as well as grace in his action. This art of his is used with the most exact and honest skill. He never attempts your passions until he has convinced your reason.
Seite 234 - ... and that these diversions might turn to some profit, I found the boy had made remarks, which might be of service to him during the course of his whole life. He would tell you the mismanagements of John Hickerthrift, find fault with the passionate temper in Bevis of Southampton, and loved St.
Seite 275 - Our curiosity was immediately raised, so that we went to the place where the sexton had been at work, and found a great concourse of people about the grave. Among the rest, there was an old woman, who told us, the person buried there was a lady whose name...
Seite 242 - We know by the life of this memorable hero, to which of these two ladies he gave up his heart ; and I believe, every one who reads this will do him the justice to approve his choice.
Seite 292 - The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
Seite 225 - ... afterwards hanged for it. But no more of this at present. As things stand, I shall put up no more affronts ; and I shall be so far from taking ill words, that I will not take ill looks.
Seite 10 - ... insomuch that it was said by an old sage, ' Sure, Nestor will now be famous, for the habitations of gods, as well as men, are built by his contrivance.' But this bashful quality still put a damp upon his great knowledge, which has as fatal an effect upon men's reputations as poverty; for as it was...
Seite 270 - whether he wore it at his breast to have it in readiness when that period should arrive?" My young lawyer immediately told me, he had a property in it, and a right to hang it where he...
Seite 84 - But of all the people on the earth, there are none who puzzle me so much as the clergy of Great Britain, who are, I believe, the most learned body...