The lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Volum 21754 |
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Side 5
... Woman is going to abuse her best Friend , Pray ( fays fhe ) have you heard what is faid of Mrs. Such a one ? I am heartily forry to hear any Thing of that Kind of one I have fo great a Value for ; but they make no Scruple of telling it ...
... Woman is going to abuse her best Friend , Pray ( fays fhe ) have you heard what is faid of Mrs. Such a one ? I am heartily forry to hear any Thing of that Kind of one I have fo great a Value for ; but they make no Scruple of telling it ...
Side 8
... Woman , is of moft Ufe in our De- fence ; for our Minds are conftrued by the Waving of that little Inftrument , and our Thoughts appear in Compofure or Agitation according to the Motion of it . You may obferve , when Will . Peregrine ...
... Woman , is of moft Ufe in our De- fence ; for our Minds are conftrued by the Waving of that little Inftrument , and our Thoughts appear in Compofure or Agitation according to the Motion of it . You may obferve , when Will . Peregrine ...
Side 9
... Woman's Province is to be careful in her Oeconomy , and chafte in her Affection : The Man's to be active in the Improvement of his Fortune , and ready to undertake whatever is confiftent with his Reputation for that End . Modefty ...
... Woman's Province is to be careful in her Oeconomy , and chafte in her Affection : The Man's to be active in the Improvement of his Fortune , and ready to undertake whatever is confiftent with his Reputation for that End . Modefty ...
Side 13
... Woman , it might ftand the Examination of the fe- vereft Judges . She had all the Beauty of her own Sex , with all the Converfation - Accomplishments of ours . But Ofmyn very foon grew furfeited with the Charms of her Perfon by ...
... Woman , it might ftand the Examination of the fe- vereft Judges . She had all the Beauty of her own Sex , with all the Converfation - Accomplishments of ours . But Ofmyn very foon grew furfeited with the Charms of her Perfon by ...
Side 15
... Woman . We must take our Minds a Note or two lower , or we shall be tortur'd by Jealousy or Anger . Thus I am refolved to kill all keen Paffions by employing my Mind on little Subjects , and lef fening the Uneafiness of my Spirit ...
... Woman . We must take our Minds a Note or two lower , or we shall be tortur'd by Jealousy or Anger . Thus I am refolved to kill all keen Paffions by employing my Mind on little Subjects , and lef fening the Uneafiness of my Spirit ...
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Side 286 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.
Side 241 - ... he saw two women of a larger stature than ordinary approaching towards him. One of them had a very noble air, and graceful deportment ; her...
Side 295 - The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes of immortality and perfection, and do all they can to widen the partition between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
Side 302 - It happened, that the very next who was brought before me was one of her admirers, who was indicted upon that very head. A letter which he acknowledged to be his own hand was read, in which were the following words, " Cruel creature, I die for you.
Side 245 - ... first. Our passions and inclinations come over next ; and our reason surrenders itself with pleasure in the end. Thus the whole soul is insensibly, betrayed into morality, by bribing the fancy with beautiful and agreeable images of those...
Side 82 - ... many hearers as you find it has in dissenting congregations, for no reason in the world but because it is spoken extempore. For ordinary minds are wholly governed by their eyes and ears, and there is no way to come at their hearts, but by power over their imaginations.
Side 318 - ... and keeping down the swellings of his grief, for fear of disturbing her in her last moments ; and the wife even at that time concealing; the pains she endured, for fear of increasing his affliction.
Side 164 - I must confess my heart shrunk within me at the sight of these ghastly appearances : but on a sudden, the voice of the trumpet came more full upon us, so that we felt a new resolution reviving in us ; and in proportion as this resolution grew, the terrors before us seemed to vanish. Most of the company, who had swords in their hands, marched on with great spirit, and an air of defiance, up the road that was commanded by Death ; while others, who had thought and contemplation in their looks, went...
Side 286 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on ; and yet, within a month — Let me not think on't.
Side 231 - Mrs. Mary is now sixteen, and would make him as fine a widow as the best of them.