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... discourses to my following writings , and shall give some account in them of the seve- ral persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digesting , and correct- ing , will fall to my share , I must do ...
... discourses to my following writings , and shall give some account in them of the seve- ral persons that are engaged in this work . As the chief trouble of compiling , digesting , and correct- ing , will fall to my share , I must do ...
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... discourse gives the same pleasure that wit would in another man . He has made his fortunes himself ; and says that England may be richer than other king- doms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the ...
... discourse gives the same pleasure that wit would in another man . He has made his fortunes himself ; and says that England may be richer than other king- doms , by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men ; though at the ...
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... discourse with which men usually entertain women . He has all his life dressed very well , and remembers habits as others do men . He can smile when one speaks to him , and laughs ea- sily . He knows the history of every mode , and can ...
... discourse with which men usually entertain women . He has all his life dressed very well , and remembers habits as others do men . He can smile when one speaks to him , and laughs ea- sily . He knows the history of every mode , and can ...
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... discourses which I had both read and heard concerning the decay of public credit , with the methods of re- storing it , and which , in my opinion , have always been defective , because they have always been made with an eye to separate ...
... discourses which I had both read and heard concerning the decay of public credit , with the methods of re- storing it , and which , in my opinion , have always been defective , because they have always been made with an eye to separate ...
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... discourse with any but my par- ticular friends , and not in public even with them . Such a habit has perhaps raised in me uncom- mon reflections : but this effect I can not commu- nicate but by my writings . As my pleasures are almost ...
... discourse with any but my par- ticular friends , and not in public even with them . Such a habit has perhaps raised in me uncom- mon reflections : but this effect I can not commu- nicate but by my writings . As my pleasures are almost ...
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Seite 30 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Seite 28 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 31 - 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. When he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way upstairs to a visit.
Seite 28 - I am very well versed in the theory of a husband, or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game.
Seite 217 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Seite 73 - I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures ; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.
Seite 36 - ... been in the female world: as other men of his age will take notice to you what such a minister said upon such and such an occasion, he will tell you, when the Duke of Monmouth danced at court, such a woman was then smitten, another was taken with him at the head of his troop in the Park. In...
Seite 27 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury Lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 144 - Some of them were covered with such extravagant epitaphs, that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them, he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him. There are others so excessively modest, that they deliver the character of the person departed in Greek or Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.
Seite 30 - However, this humour creates him no enemies, for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him.