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Side 5
... myself with having been frequently honoured with your correfpondence ; I would in- finuate it to the public that , under the fanction of your Lordship's name , I may hope for a more favourable reception from my readers . If it fhould be ...
... myself with having been frequently honoured with your correfpondence ; I would in- finuate it to the public that , under the fanction of your Lordship's name , I may hope for a more favourable reception from my readers . If it fhould be ...
Side 6
... acknowledgments to your Lord- ship , and with fubfcribing myself Your LORDSHIP'S obliged , and moft obedient servant , ADAM FITZ - ADAM . THE WORL D. NUMB . I. THURSDAY , Jan. 4 vi DEDICATION . while, like the Cuckoo in the fable, I ...
... acknowledgments to your Lord- ship , and with fubfcribing myself Your LORDSHIP'S obliged , and moft obedient servant , ADAM FITZ - ADAM . THE WORL D. NUMB . I. THURSDAY , Jan. 4 vi DEDICATION . while, like the Cuckoo in the fable, I ...
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... myself . My readers will , I hope , excufe me , if hereafter they fhould find me very fparing of mottos to these effays . I know very well that a little Latin or Greek , to those who understand no language but English , is both fa ...
... myself . My readers will , I hope , excufe me , if hereafter they fhould find me very fparing of mottos to these effays . I know very well that a little Latin or Greek , to those who understand no language but English , is both fa ...
Side 18
... myself , I married the most amiable woman in the world , without a penny to her fortune , only because we loved each other to distraction , and were miserable asunder . To the whole of this charge I plead guilty ; and have most heartily ...
... myself , I married the most amiable woman in the world , without a penny to her fortune , only because we loved each other to distraction , and were miserable asunder . To the whole of this charge I plead guilty ; and have most heartily ...
Side 34
... myself remember how , much about that æra , the great Senefino , reprefenting Alexander at the fiege of Oxydracæ , fo far forgot himself in the heat of con- queft as to tick his fword in one of the pasteboard ftones of the wall of the ...
... myself remember how , much about that æra , the great Senefino , reprefenting Alexander at the fiege of Oxydracæ , fo far forgot himself in the heat of con- queft as to tick his fword in one of the pasteboard ftones of the wall of the ...
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Side 122 - Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign And unknown regions dare descry: Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
Side 134 - At the top of the firft page was delineated a lady with very red cheeks, and a very large hoop, in the fafhionable attitude of knotting, and of making a very genteel French curtefy.
Side 63 - Z's, and every hovel for the cows has bells hanging at the corners.
Side 35 - There is not a citizen who does not take more pains to torture his acre and half into irregularities than he formerly would have employed to make it as formal as his cravat.
Side 263 - I am apt to fufpecl; that human nature was always very like what it is at this day, and that men from the time of my great...
Side 57 - I am afraid we shall form very erroneous opinions of the people we converse with ; as every melancholy face will appear to be produced by a bad heart, and every cheerful face by a good one. But...
Side 99 - He gracioufly brought me five thoufand livres, which he affured me was not more than what would be neceflary for our firft fetting out, as he called it ; while his wife was pointing out to mine the moft compendious method of fpending three times as much. I told him that I hoped that fum would be very near fufficient for the whole time ; to which he anfwered coolly...
Side 26 - ... whither to go. Chance more than choice brought me to this place ; where if I have found a benefactor — and indeed, sir, I have need of one — I shall call it the happiest accident of my life.
Side 78 - I have been bullied by an usurper; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Side 132 - England, asserts (and that in a marginal note too, which is always more material than the text) that he knew somebody, who was radically cured of a most obstinate king's evil, by the touch of somebody.