Cyclopædia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote: Illustrations of the Characters, Habits and Conversation of Men of Letters and ScienceWilliam Keddie R. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 368 páginas |
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... afterwards that whilst his cognized an old school - fellow among friends were anxiously applying a the non - medical attendants , and saluted him with a sobriquet of the play - ground . Throughout the operation he rendered every assist ...
... afterwards that whilst his cognized an old school - fellow among friends were anxiously applying a the non - medical attendants , and saluted him with a sobriquet of the play - ground . Throughout the operation he rendered every assist ...
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... ( afterwards cardinal ) de Po- lignac , he freely disclosed his uni- versal Pyrrhonism . " I am most truly , " said Bayle , " a Protestant ; for I protest indifferently against all systems and all sects . " — ( Gibbon . ) STERNE'S SERMONS ...
... ( afterwards cardinal ) de Po- lignac , he freely disclosed his uni- versal Pyrrhonism . " I am most truly , " said Bayle , " a Protestant ; for I protest indifferently against all systems and all sects . " — ( Gibbon . ) STERNE'S SERMONS ...
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... afterwards walked Cellini , a Florentine goldsmith and to Rogers's , across the park . He designer , translated from the Italian had a party to lunch , so I went by Thomas Nugent . There is some- into the pictures , and sucked Rem ...
... afterwards walked Cellini , a Florentine goldsmith and to Rogers's , across the park . He designer , translated from the Italian had a party to lunch , so I went by Thomas Nugent . There is some- into the pictures , and sucked Rem ...
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... afterwards . " The author ( it ob- harmony with his mind . Such served ) at Brookes's said , That residences of men of genius have been enjoyed by some ; and the vivid descriptions which they have left us , convey something of the ...
... afterwards . " The author ( it ob- harmony with his mind . Such served ) at Brookes's said , That residences of men of genius have been enjoyed by some ; and the vivid descriptions which they have left us , convey something of the ...
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... afterwards changed his hours , and rested in bed from nine to four in the summer , and five in the winter . The course of his day was best known after he was blind . When he first rose , he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible , and then ...
... afterwards changed his hours , and rested in bed from nine to four in the summer , and five in the winter . The course of his day was best known after he was blind . When he first rose , he heard a chapter in the Hebrew Bible , and then ...
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Página 25 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 110 - Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.
Página 252 - He used often to say, that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn ; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it x.
Página 153 - ... ordinary; if you expected to see an ordinary woman, you would think her pretty ! but her manners are simple, ardent, impressive. In every motion, her most innocent soul outbeams so brightly, that who saw would say, Guilt was a thing impossible in her. Her information various. Her eye watchful in minutest observation of nature; and her taste, a perfect electrometer.
Página 46 - When the messenger who carried the last sheet to Millar returned, Johnson asked him, " Well, what did he say?"—" Sir, (answered the messenger) he said, thank GOD I have done with him.
Página 90 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam, afar Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot through the fields of air ; — Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move, Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
Página 37 - The affectionate Laidlaw beseeching him to stop dictating, when his audible suffering filled every pause, "Nay, Willie," he answered, "only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves; but as to giving over work, that can only be when I am in woollen.
Página 147 - That's very strange ; but, if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings ; tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket I' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Página 147 - That's very strange ! but if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. — Let me see, what should I have had? a couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket.
Página 14 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects ; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England !" ' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.