The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 |
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... Design of Such Narrations , which , I humbly prefume , fhould be principally intended for the Ufe of Politick Per- fons , who are fo publick - Spirited as to neglect their own Affairs to look into Tranfactions of State . Now thefe ...
... Design of Such Narrations , which , I humbly prefume , fhould be principally intended for the Ufe of Politick Per- fons , who are fo publick - Spirited as to neglect their own Affairs to look into Tranfactions of State . Now thefe ...
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... Design to furprize two Battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft ; but those Battalions receiv'd Advice of their March , and retir'd to Dendermond . Lieutenant General Wood appear'd on this Oc- cafion at the Head of 5000 Foot , and ...
... Design to furprize two Battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft ; but those Battalions receiv'd Advice of their March , and retir'd to Dendermond . Lieutenant General Wood appear'd on this Oc- cafion at the Head of 5000 Foot , and ...
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... Design of General Fleming's Visit to that Court was , to infinuate , that it will be for the mutual Inte- rest of the King of Pruffia and King Auguftus to enter into a new Alliance ; but that the Ministers of Prussia are not inclin❜d ...
... Design of General Fleming's Visit to that Court was , to infinuate , that it will be for the mutual Inte- rest of the King of Pruffia and King Auguftus to enter into a new Alliance ; but that the Ministers of Prussia are not inclin❜d ...
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... Design of it , is a good Representation of the Age in which that Comedy was written ; at which Time Love and Wenching were the Business of Life , and the Gallant Manner of pursuing Women was the beft Recommendation at Court . To which ...
... Design of it , is a good Representation of the Age in which that Comedy was written ; at which Time Love and Wenching were the Business of Life , and the Gallant Manner of pursuing Women was the beft Recommendation at Court . To which ...
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... Designs the enfuing Campaign . Contracts are enter❜d into with the Merchants of Milan , for a great Number of Mules to transport his Provifions and Ammunition . His Royal High- nefs has ordered the Train of Artillery to be conveyed to ...
... Designs the enfuing Campaign . Contracts are enter❜d into with the Merchants of Milan , for a great Number of Mules to transport his Provifions and Ammunition . His Royal High- nefs has ordered the Train of Artillery to be conveyed to ...
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Página 294 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página 295 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 357 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Página 251 - do you think my uncle takes any notice of such a dull rogue as you are?" Mr. William .goes on, " He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book : when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings. His way of thinking is...
Página 289 - To my knowledge of this very hat it may be added, that the covering of straw was never used among the Jews, since it was demanded of them to make bricks without it. Therefore this is really nothing but, under the specious pretence of learning and antiquities, to impose upon the world.
Página 269 - His friend advances, and so on, until they had all saluted her. By this means the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows, at a loss what to do, without courage to pass through them ; and the Platonics, at several peep-holes...
Página 371 - ... to benevolence, and tend to a certain manner of being or appearing equal to the rest of the company ; for conversation is composed of an assembly of men, as they are men, and not as they are distinguished by fortune: therefore he who brings his quality with him into conversation, should always pay the reckoning ; for he came to receive homage, and not to meet his friends.
Página 250 - I took three lads, who are under my guardianship, a-rambling, in a hackney-coach, to show them the town; as the lions, the tombs, Bedlam, and the other places which are entertainments to raw minds because they strike forcibly on the fancy.
Página 8 - I have in another place, and in a paper by itself, sufficiently convinced this man that he is dead, and if he has any shame, I don't doubt but that by this time he owns it to all his acquaintance : for though the legs and arms, and whole body of that man may still appear and perform their animal functions ; yet since, as I have elsewhere observed, his art is gone, the man is gone.
Página 159 - There is another sort of gentlemen whom I am much more concerned for, and that is the ingenious fraternity of which I have the honour to be an unworthy member; I mean the news-writers of Great Britain, whether 'Postmen