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Página 7
... truth , I have ferious reafons for avoiding the first of these subjects . A weak advocate may ruin a good caufe . And if religion can be defended by no better arguments than fome I have late- ly feen in the public papers and maga- zines ...
... truth , I have ferious reafons for avoiding the first of these subjects . A weak advocate may ruin a good caufe . And if religion can be defended by no better arguments than fome I have late- ly feen in the public papers and maga- zines ...
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... truth , but very perfonable geefe . The in- ventor , like other original geniuses , was treated ill by a barbarous age : yet I can venture to affirm , that a stricter ad- herence to reality would have faved even thofe times from being ...
... truth , but very perfonable geefe . The in- ventor , like other original geniuses , was treated ill by a barbarous age : yet I can venture to affirm , that a stricter ad- herence to reality would have faved even thofe times from being ...
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... TRUTH . TO MR . TELL - TRUTH . Thank you for the caution , and will write no more novels . Your moft humble fervant , SIE , A. FITZ - ADAM . TO MR . FITZ - ADAM . YOUR predeceffor , the Spectator , did not think his labours altogether ...
... TRUTH . TO MR . TELL - TRUTH . Thank you for the caution , and will write no more novels . Your moft humble fervant , SIE , A. FITZ - ADAM . TO MR . FITZ - ADAM . YOUR predeceffor , the Spectator , did not think his labours altogether ...
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... truth of this obfervation ; as it will teach him , both from what he feels in himfelf , and obferves in others , that without a difpofition for happiness , the benefits and bleffings of life are bestowed upon him in vain ; and that with ...
... truth of this obfervation ; as it will teach him , both from what he feels in himfelf , and obferves in others , that without a difpofition for happiness , the benefits and bleffings of life are bestowed upon him in vain ; and that with ...
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... truth of their defigns . Whereas our modern artists ( if we may guels from the motley re- prefentations they give us of our fpecies ) are fo far from having ftudied the na- tures of other people , that they feldom feem to have the leaft ...
... truth of their defigns . Whereas our modern artists ( if we may guels from the motley re- prefentations they give us of our fpecies ) are fo far from having ftudied the na- tures of other people , that they feldom feem to have the leaft ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 163 - that there are many people in the world who would never have been in love if they had never heard talk of it.
Página 205 - I find you are but a bad engineer. While you aim at your mouth you will never hit it, take my word for it. A floating battery, to hit the mark, must be pointed something above or below it. If you would hit your mouth, direct your four-pounder at your forehead, or your chin.
Página 79 - Now sir, I have told you as much as I know of it, though I have admired and aimed at it all my Life.
Página 79 - Your daughters muft have been fo educated as to fit them to be wives without conjugal affedlion, and mothers without maternal care.
Página 42 - I can allure you, fir, that it is a very ferious one to me, notwithftanding the ill-natured comfort which I might have, of thinking it of late a very common one. I AM a gentleman of a reafonable paternal eftate in my county, and ferve as knight of the fhire for it.
Página 366 - I sat like a mope all the night, not daring to look up, for fear of catching the eyes of my acquaintance, who would have laughed me out of countenance. You may imagine, Mr. Fitz-Adam, that I contrived all manner of means to get off from any future engagements with my cousins ; but it has unfortunately so happened, that we have met almost every where.
Página 365 - I cannot but hope it will have some good effect on the conduct of those polite people, who are too sagacious, learned, and courageous to be kept in awe by the threats of hell and damnation...
Página 39 - I never faw either of them fo much as playing with the other's hand — I mean only when they have known I was within fight of them ; I have ftolen upon them unawares indeed, and have been witnefs to fuch words and looks as have quite melted me.
Página 22 - ... by the benefit than he had been before by his wants. But it is the peculiar talent of this gentleman to wound himfelf by proxy, or (in the fportfman's phrafe) to' knock himfelf down by by the recoiling of his own gun.
Página 41 - Such horfes have their necks adorned <c with firings of beads, and relicks, being writings " wrapt up in cloth of gold, or filk, containing the " names of their prophet, and when thefe horfes die, " they are buried with as much ceremony, as the near• " eft relations of their owners.