The Sir Roger de Coverley PapersH. Holt, 1914 - 204 Seiten |
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... person that he was at the beginning . Nothing hap- pens to alter or change the even tenor of his existence . Once , to be sure , he had a love affair with the " perverse widow . But we may be permitted to doubt , despite his own ...
... person that he was at the beginning . Nothing hap- pens to alter or change the even tenor of his existence . Once , to be sure , he had a love affair with the " perverse widow . But we may be permitted to doubt , despite his own ...
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... persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digest- 10 ing , and correcting will fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history . I was born to a small hereditary ...
... persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digest- 10 ing , and correcting will fall to my share , I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history . I was born to a small hereditary ...
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... person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Free- port , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London ; a person of indefatigable industry , strong reason , and great experience . His notions of trade are noble and generous , and ...
... person of next consideration is Sir Andrew Free- port , a merchant of great eminence in the city of London ; a person of indefatigable industry , strong reason , and great experience . His notions of trade are noble and generous , and ...
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... person and always had a very easy fortune , time has made but 10 very little impression either by wrinkles on his forehead or traces in his brain . His person is well turned , of a good height . He is very ready at that sort of ...
... person and always had a very easy fortune , time has made but 10 very little impression either by wrinkles on his forehead or traces in his brain . His person is well turned , of a good height . He is very ready at that sort of ...
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... persons as are engaged in different ways of life , and deputed , as it were , out of the most conspicu- ous classes of mankind . By this means I am furnished 5 with the greatest variety of hints and materials , and know everything that ...
... persons as are engaged in different ways of life , and deputed , as it were , out of the most conspicu- ous classes of mankind . By this means I am furnished 5 with the greatest variety of hints and materials , and know everything that ...
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Seite 48 - I was yesterday very much surprised to hear my old friend, in the midst of the service, calling out to one John Matthews to mind what he was about, and not disturb the congregation. This John Matthews, it seems, is remarkable for being an idle fellow, and at that time was kicking his heels for his diversion.
Seite 61 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Seite 48 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if, by chance, he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Seite 3 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 50 - ... his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation. Feuds of this nature, though too frequent in the country, are very fatal to the ordinary people ; who are so used to be dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate, as of a man of learning ; and are very hardly brought to regard any truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several men of five hundred a year who do not believe...
Seite 11 - With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others. The same frankness runs through all his conversation. The military part of his life has furnished him with many adventures, in the relation of which he is very agreeable to the company ; for he is never overbearing, though accustomed to command men in the utmost degree below him ; nor ever too obsequious, from an habit of obeying men highly above him.
Seite 49 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side ; and every now and then inquires how...
Seite 8 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty ; keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Seite 49 - In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half year ; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Seite 8 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...