The Adventures of a Bank-note ...T. Davies, 1771 |
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Seite 33
... reader to please himself , by fubftituting fome- thing of his own , in lieu of what he thinks Mr. Foote would have faid . If a reader can't please himself with his own thoughts , I am fure it would be out of my power to do it ; but ...
... reader to please himself , by fubftituting fome- thing of his own , in lieu of what he thinks Mr. Foote would have faid . If a reader can't please himself with his own thoughts , I am fure it would be out of my power to do it ; but ...
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Thomas Bridges. of me , I never could guefs ; if you can , reader , you have the advantage of me ; but I fear we ... readers happens , by the dint of his own fuperior under- ftanding to find it out , and fix it with as much certainty as a ...
Thomas Bridges. of me , I never could guefs ; if you can , reader , you have the advantage of me ; but I fear we ... readers happens , by the dint of his own fuperior under- ftanding to find it out , and fix it with as much certainty as a ...
Seite 60
... readers , I mean in the converfation after dinner ; as for the dinner itself , it would have fuited any man's tafte , from a cobler up to a king ; the beef was delightful ; and my good friend , doctor Teague , fent down fuch a quantity ...
... readers , I mean in the converfation after dinner ; as for the dinner itself , it would have fuited any man's tafte , from a cobler up to a king ; the beef was delightful ; and my good friend , doctor Teague , fent down fuch a quantity ...
Seite 63
... over in fi- lence ; although , as my reader was not with me to fee the grave face with which he pronounced it , he may poffibly find no meaning at all in it ; but but all the joke might lay in the doctor's folemn [ 63 ]
... over in fi- lence ; although , as my reader was not with me to fee the grave face with which he pronounced it , he may poffibly find no meaning at all in it ; but but all the joke might lay in the doctor's folemn [ 63 ]
Seite 83
... reader , I advance no- thing about Homer and his ambus cades , in this my authentic history of two - legged animals , I shall give you a literal tranflation of that part of Achilles's fpeech to Agamemnon , where he reproaches him for ...
... reader , I advance no- thing about Homer and his ambus cades , in this my authentic history of two - legged animals , I shall give you a literal tranflation of that part of Achilles's fpeech to Agamemnon , where he reproaches him for ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 131 - Tempjars ev'ry fentence raife} And wonder with a foolifh face of praife— Who but muft laugh,- if fuch a man there be ? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? What tho...
Seite 133 - Chriftians ; there's no objection to their being rogues if they do ; and then, when pork is not forbid, they won't eat a tenth part they do...
Seite 71 - Now will I, my learned friend, Mr. Circulating Librarian, indulge you with a chapter of true tragical light reading, to pleafe your tafte ; for John's was a fcheme not only to deftroy, but to make his fellow creatures.
Seite 165 - Jacob, ever fold a black-lead " pencil, or a roll of hard pomatum, " or a pair of fleeve buttons in their " jives : then, pray, how could they