Harrison's British Classicks, Volumen6Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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... known by the Name of Count . Artifices in D.efs made Ufe of by the Shabby Genteel . Second - hand Gentry among the Women . Inftances of this Vanity in feveral Families : -and in the Men of Pleasure without Fortunes . Story of an ...
... known by the Name of Count . Artifices in D.efs made Ufe of by the Shabby Genteel . Second - hand Gentry among the Women . Inftances of this Vanity in feveral Families : -and in the Men of Pleasure without Fortunes . Story of an ...
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... known among the printers by that appellation . We must not , how- ever , think the members of the CONGER ftrangers to the deeper parts of litera- ture ; for as carpenters , fmiths , mafons , and all mechanics , fmell of the trade they ...
... known among the printers by that appellation . We must not , how- ever , think the members of the CONGER ftrangers to the deeper parts of litera- ture ; for as carpenters , fmiths , mafons , and all mechanics , fmell of the trade they ...
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... known to have gone abroad for no other purpose than to buy pictures . TO MR . DEAR SIR , THE hurry in which I left England must have convinced you how much I was in earneft , when I talked of making a valuable collection of pictures ...
... known to have gone abroad for no other purpose than to buy pictures . TO MR . DEAR SIR , THE hurry in which I left England must have convinced you how much I was in earneft , when I talked of making a valuable collection of pictures ...
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... known diet- drink brought into practice by the late , Bishop of Cloyne ; but he told me , every thing went against his stomach that favoured of TAR . However , I at length prevailed on him to fubmit to a long courfe of fea - water . I ...
... known diet- drink brought into practice by the late , Bishop of Cloyne ; but he told me , every thing went against his stomach that favoured of TAR . However , I at length prevailed on him to fubmit to a long courfe of fea - water . I ...
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... known , read , and ad- mired ; but I find quite the contrary . I went into a coffee - house the other day by Whitechapel Mount , where on afk- ing for the Connoiffeur , the woman ftared at me , and said she did not know what I meant . I ...
... known , read , and ad- mired ; but I find quite the contrary . I went into a coffee - house the other day by Whitechapel Mount , where on afk- ing for the Connoiffeur , the woman ftared at me , and said she did not know what I meant . I ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 7 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Página 313 - Mr. Town is a fair, black, middle-sized, very short man. He wears his own hair, and a periwig. He is about thirty years of age, and not more than four and twenty. He is a student of the law, and a bachelor of physic.
Página 196 - The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention ; are enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers...
Página 198 - Our crew was carried into a French prison, and many of them died because they were not used to live in a jail ; but for my part it was nothing to me, for I was seasoned. One night...
Página 44 - He told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of Taffy in the sedan-chair, was sure to set the table in a roar.
Página 220 - Umbrae, or shadows; and, indeed, this appellation conveys a very full idea of the nature of these humble retainers to the wealthy, since they not only follow them like their shadows, but ' like a shadow prove the substance true...
Página 29 - ... you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Página 143 - The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Página 43 - Some affect humanity and tenderness, others boast of having such dispositions from nature ; but he is the only man I ever knew who seemed ashamed of his natural benevolence. He takes as much pains to hide his feelings, as any hypocrite would to conceal his indifference ; but on every unguarded moment the mask drops off, and reveals him to the most superficial observer.
Página 253 - ... of horses, let six bright bays, blacks, or greys prance down one side of her head ; and according to the rank she insists upon, let a ducal or an earl's coronet, or a bloody hand be distinguished upon her capriole.