The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, that Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications, Band 3Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott James Ridgway, 1805 Being an impartial selection of the most exquisite essays and jeux d'esprits, principally prose, that appear in the newspapers and other publications. |
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... these regulations ; though at firft his people were a little awkward , and did not relifh confinement . Inftead of being Jack of all trades , but mafter of none , every one of John's fervants became very expert at his particular ...
... these regulations ; though at firft his people were a little awkward , and did not relifh confinement . Inftead of being Jack of all trades , but mafter of none , every one of John's fervants became very expert at his particular ...
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... these boats , and also several landmen to act as centinels at proper ftations . He had indeed fome reafon for the fe precautions : for a wrong - headed gentleman in the fouth had once come , with a number of men and large boats , to ...
... these boats , and also several landmen to act as centinels at proper ftations . He had indeed fome reafon for the fe precautions : for a wrong - headed gentleman in the fouth had once come , with a number of men and large boats , to ...
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... These were John's best days ; and though fome difcontented people think these -days are gone , yet I would ftill rent a houfe or a few acres of land from John Bull , fooner than from any other perfon I know . But though John is one of ...
... These were John's best days ; and though fome difcontented people think these -days are gone , yet I would ftill rent a houfe or a few acres of land from John Bull , fooner than from any other perfon I know . But though John is one of ...
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... these things are hurtful to his old and beft cultivated lands . On his wife's eftate , by an equally bad old custom , if a man once get a farm , his children are continued in it , though they fhould neither cultivate the foil nor pay ...
... these things are hurtful to his old and beft cultivated lands . On his wife's eftate , by an equally bad old custom , if a man once get a farm , his children are continued in it , though they fhould neither cultivate the foil nor pay ...
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... these things hurt the interests of his people . Nay , what is more re- markable , their riches have hurt their health and their virtue . Some of his farmers are become so effeminate , that they will not work in all weathers . His ...
... these things hurt the interests of his people . Nay , what is more re- markable , their riches have hurt their health and their virtue . Some of his farmers are become so effeminate , that they will not work in all weathers . His ...
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Seite 337 - Twas no fancy, no dream, he could plainly survey That the devil himself was in sight. You rascally dauber ! old Beelzebub cries, Take heed how you wrong me again ! Though your caricatures for myself I despise, Make me handsomer now in the multitude's eyes, Or see if I threaten in vain ! Now the painter was bold, and religious beside, And on faith he had certain reliance; So earnestly he all his countenance eyed, And thank'd him for sitting, with Catholic pride, And sturdily bade him defiance.
Seite 216 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Seite 334 - WHOSOEVER will be saved : before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled : without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Seite 199 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 383 - Letters from Paddington bring little more, than that William Squeak, the sow-gelder, passed through that place the fifth instant. They advise from Fulham, that things remained there in the same state they were. They had intelligence, just as the letters came away, of a tub of excellent ale just set abroach at Parsons Green ; but this wanted confirmation.
Seite 96 - ... to hazards, from which he might fly to the cannon's mouth as a refuge or a relaxation ! Sir, let us now be told no more of the infamy of the rope-dancer.
Seite 276 - ... the grant of which adds gentility to a man's family ; in like manner as civil nobility, among the Romans, was founded in the jus imaginum, or having the image of one ancestor at least, who had borne some curule office.
Seite 335 - And yet, they are not two obedients, but one obedient. For there is one dominion nominal of the husband, and another dominion real of the wife. And yet, there are not two dominions, but one dominion.
Seite 270 - But the influence of the belles lettres was -shed in vain on his licentious nature; and the opportunity of appropriating the contents of his landlord's till was found too powerful for the sense either of safety or compunction. The dykes of a stream once removed, its...
Seite 94 - Sir, you might as well say that St Paul was the most despicable of human beings. Let us beware how we petulantly and ignorantly traduce a character which puts all other characters to shame. Sir, a rope-dancer concentrates in himself all the cardinal virtues.