The Spectator, Volumen2Tonson, 1729 |
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... Friend Sir ANDREW , tho ' for many Years a great and general Trader , was never the Defendant in a Law - Suit , in all the Perplexity of Bufinefs , and the Iniquity of Mankind at prefent : No one had any Co lour for the leaft Complaint ...
... Friend Sir ANDREW , tho ' for many Years a great and general Trader , was never the Defendant in a Law - Suit , in all the Perplexity of Bufinefs , and the Iniquity of Mankind at prefent : No one had any Co lour for the leaft Complaint ...
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... Friend took was conveyed to him by Jack , and infcribed , A Bolus or an Electuary for Mr. Truepenny . ' Jack had a ... Friends , to vifit any thing curious that may be feen under Covert . My principal Entertainments of this Nature are ...
... Friend took was conveyed to him by Jack , and infcribed , A Bolus or an Electuary for Mr. Truepenny . ' Jack had a ... Friends , to vifit any thing curious that may be feen under Covert . My principal Entertainments of this Nature are ...
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... Friend , will not be improper to in- fert here , because I may have Occafion to mention many of their Conversations , into which thefe Memorials of them may give Light . · · · " PHARAMOND , when he had a Mind to retire ⚫ for an Hour or ...
... Friend , will not be improper to in- fert here , because I may have Occafion to mention many of their Conversations , into which thefe Memorials of them may give Light . · · · " PHARAMOND , when he had a Mind to retire ⚫ for an Hour or ...
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... Friend ; if the Circumstances of your Diftress " will admit of it , you fhall find me fo . To whom the Stranger : " Oh excellent Pharamond , name not a " Friend to the unfortunate Spinamont . I had one , but " he is dead by my own Hand ...
... Friend ; if the Circumstances of your Diftress " will admit of it , you fhall find me fo . To whom the Stranger : " Oh excellent Pharamond , name not a " Friend to the unfortunate Spinamont . I had one , but " he is dead by my own Hand ...
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... Friend whom he loves ; and the Judge condemns the " Duellift , while he approves his Behaviour . Shame is " the greatest of all Evils ; what avail Laws , when " Death only attends the Breach of them , and Shame " Obedience to them ? As ...
... Friend whom he loves ; and the Judge condemns the " Duellift , while he approves his Behaviour . Shame is " the greatest of all Evils ; what avail Laws , when " Death only attends the Breach of them , and Shame " Obedience to them ? As ...
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Página 286 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Página 289 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
Página 110 - ... subjects, 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.
Página 112 - 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...
Página 153 - Upon his first rising the court was hushed, and a general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger < was up. ' The speech he made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the knight himself to inform the court, as to give him a figure in my eye, and keep up his credit in the country.
Página 112 - ... dazzled with riches, that they pay as much deference to the understanding of a man of an estate as of a man of learning...
Página 110 - It is certain the country people would soon degenerate into a kind of savages and barbarians, were there not such frequent returns of a stated time in which the whole village meet together with their best faces and in their cleanliest habits to converse with one another upon indifferent subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the supreme Being.
Página 96 - ... he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them ; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision ; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Página 286 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Página 101 - Country, and is very famous for finding out a Hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man: He makes a May-fly to a Miracle ; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.