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Página 135 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Página 181 - I have got materials toward a treatise, proving the falsity of that definition, animal rationale, and to show it should be only rationis capax. Upon this great foundation of misanthropy (though not in Timon's manner) the whole building of my travels is erected; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion...
Página 181 - Timon's manner,) the whole building of my travels is erected ; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion : by consequence you are to embrace it immediately, and procure that all who deserve my esteem may do so too. The matter is so clear that it will admit of no dispute ; nay, I will hold a hundred pounds that you and I agree in the point.
Página 239 - But I granted he had the greatest inequalities of any man alive, and his whole scene was fifty times more a what-d'ye-call-it than yours, for I declare yours was unie ; and I wish you would so order it that the world may be as wise as I upon that article.
Página 179 - After so many dispersions and so many divisions, two or three of us may yet be gathered together : not to plot, not to contrive silly schemes of ambition, or to vex our own or others' hearts with busy vanities, (such as perhaps at one time of life or other take their tour in every man,) but to divert ourselves, and the world too, if it pleases ; or, at worst, to laugh at others as innocently and as unhurtfully as at ourselves.
Página 199 - Motte* received the copy (he tells me) he knew not from whence, nor from whom, dropped at his house in the dark, from a hackney coach ; by computing the time, I found it was after you left England, so, for my part, I suspend my judgment.
Página 194 - I felt the extreme heat of the weather, the inns, the roads, the confinement and closeness of the uneasy coach, and wished a hundred times I had either a deanery or a horse in my gift.
Página 181 - I am exceedingly pleased that you have done with translations. Lord Treasurer Oxford often lamented that a rascally world should lay you under a necessity of misemploying your genius for so long a time.
Página 92 - Solomon said, and above all, of making Miscellanies, which all men can make. For unless there be a character in every piece, like the mark of the elect, I should not care to be one of the twelve thousand signed.
Página 169 - I would have the names of those scribblers printed indexically at the beginning or end of the poem, with an account of their works, for the reader to refer to.