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... merit of his benefactor . But if he is in love , though we may think his paffion juft as reasonable as any of the kind , yet we never think ourselves bound to conceive a paffion of the fame kind , and for the fame perfon for whom he has ...
... merit of his benefactor . But if he is in love , though we may think his paffion juft as reasonable as any of the kind , yet we never think ourselves bound to conceive a paffion of the fame kind , and for the fame perfon for whom he has ...
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... - traction from their acknowledged merit , might be thought to favour of malevolence ; we fhall therefore do little more than mention mention the titles of the feveral pieces contained in this 18 . MONTESQUIEU's Miscellaneous Tracts .
... - traction from their acknowledged merit , might be thought to favour of malevolence ; we fhall therefore do little more than mention mention the titles of the feveral pieces contained in this 18 . MONTESQUIEU's Miscellaneous Tracts .
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... merits . As an author , no doubt , he ranks in the first clafs of the writers of thofe days . His fentiments , though sometimes narrow , are often noble , and generally juft . His diction is " LIFE FROM 1660 TO 1667 INCLUSIVE is very ...
... merits . As an author , no doubt , he ranks in the first clafs of the writers of thofe days . His fentiments , though sometimes narrow , are often noble , and generally juft . His diction is " LIFE FROM 1660 TO 1667 INCLUSIVE is very ...
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... merit of refusing what he did not think it safe or convenient to accept ? Tho ' his refufal may fhew his good fenfe and pru- dence , it is no proof of his difintereftednefs . It is obfervable that he does not abfolutely refuse his ...
... merit of refusing what he did not think it safe or convenient to accept ? Tho ' his refufal may fhew his good fenfe and pru- dence , it is no proof of his difintereftednefs . It is obfervable that he does not abfolutely refuse his ...
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... that Lord Clarendon was the most active man in it , and made a great merit of his fervices , in that re- fpect , to the French king . ther ther to have acted like one of his late fucceffors 26 Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon .
... that Lord Clarendon was the most active man in it , and made a great merit of his fervices , in that re- fpect , to the French king . ther ther to have acted like one of his late fucceffors 26 Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon .
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Página 205 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
Página 25 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
Página 301 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Página 205 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Página 541 - All the dexterity is in the good cookery and management of them...
Página 25 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
Página 203 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Página 547 - IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the horse-guards.
Página 112 - ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees.
Página 188 - Twas from the bottle King deriv'd his wit, Drank till he could not talk, and then he writ. Let no coiPd ferjeant touch the facred juice, But leave it to the bards for better ufe : Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint...