Sir Roger de Coverley, by the Spectator, the notes by W.H. WillsLongmans, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 227 Seiten |
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... best Master in the World , he feldom changes his Servants ; and as he is be- loved by all about him , his Servants never care for leaving him ; by this means his Domefticks are all in Years , and grown old with their Master . You would ...
... best Master in the World , he feldom changes his Servants ; and as he is be- loved by all about him , his Servants never care for leaving him ; by this means his Domefticks are all in Years , and grown old with their Master . You would ...
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... best Person breathing , and for that Reafon goes on as fast as he is able to put his Servants into independent Livelihoods . The greatest Part of Sir ROGER'S Eftate is tenanted by Perfons who have ferved himself or his Ancestors . It ...
... best Person breathing , and for that Reafon goes on as fast as he is able to put his Servants into independent Livelihoods . The greatest Part of Sir ROGER'S Eftate is tenanted by Perfons who have ferved himself or his Ancestors . It ...
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... best I have caught this Seafon . I intend to come and stay with you a Week , and fee how the Perch bite in the Black River . I obferved ' with fome Concern , the last time I faw you upon ' the Bowling - Green , that your Whip wanted a ...
... best I have caught this Seafon . I intend to come and stay with you a Week , and fee how the Perch bite in the Black River . I obferved ' with fome Concern , the last time I faw you upon ' the Bowling - Green , that your Whip wanted a ...
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... best of their Family : Accordingly we find feveral Citizens that were launched into the World with narrow Fortunes , rifing by an honest Industry to greater Estates than those of their elder Bro- thers . It is not improbable but WILL ...
... best of their Family : Accordingly we find feveral Citizens that were launched into the World with narrow Fortunes , rifing by an honest Industry to greater Estates than those of their elder Bro- thers . It is not improbable but WILL ...
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... best Receipt now in England ' both for an Hafty - pudding and a White - pot . ' IF you please to fall back a little , because ' tis ' neceffary to look at the three next Pictures at one ' View ; these are three Sifters . She on the ...
... best Receipt now in England ' both for an Hafty - pudding and a White - pot . ' IF you please to fall back a little , because ' tis ' neceffary to look at the three next Pictures at one ' View ; these are three Sifters . She on the ...
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Seite 52 - ... hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Seite 14 - For, says he, that great Man who has a Mind to help me, has as many to break through to come at me, as I have to come at him. Therefore he will conclude, that the Man who would make a Figure, especially in a military Way, must get over all false Modesty, and assist his Patron against the Importunity of other Pretenders, by a proper Assurance in his own Vindication. He says it is a civil Cowardice to...
Seite 4 - Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Seite 53 - 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 55 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Seite 4 - 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 stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Seite 23 - I know his value have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does not know I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked...
Seite 157 - I must not omit that the benevolence of my good old friend, which flows out towards every one he converses with, made him very kind to our interpreter, whom he looked upon as an extraordinary man; for which reason he shook him by the hand at parting, telling him that he should be very glad to see him at his lodgings in Norfolk Buildings, and talk over these matters with him more at leisure.
Seite 15 - ... what you ought to expect, as it is a military fear to be slow in attacking when it is your duty. With this candour does the gentleman speak of himself and others.
Seite 53 - Sometimes he will be lengthening out a verse in the singing psalms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion, he pronounces