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... seen no beings who do as much good from benevolence , as she does from whatever motive . If there are such under the earth , or in the clouds , I wish they would come up , or come down . What Soame Jenyns says upon this subject is not ...
... seen no beings who do as much good from benevolence , as she does from whatever motive . If there are such under the earth , or in the clouds , I wish they would come up , or come down . What Soame Jenyns says upon this subject is not ...
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... seen ? Of the past , or the invisible , they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people . Had they grown out of the ground ...
... seen ? Of the past , or the invisible , they can tell nothing . The inhabitants of Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other people . Had they grown out of the ground ...
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... seen the world , attesting , and at the same time giving his reasons for the authenticity of Fingal : - " I have heard all that poem when I was young . " - " Have you , Sir ? Pray what have you heard ? " - " I have heard Ossian , Oscar ...
... seen the world , attesting , and at the same time giving his reasons for the authenticity of Fingal : - " I have heard all that poem when I was young . " - " Have you , Sir ? Pray what have you heard ? " - " I have heard Ossian , Oscar ...
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... seen a greater number of literary men , than at any other , except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds , had invited me to meet Mr. Wilkes and some more gentlemen , on Wednesday , May 15. " Pray ( said I , ) let us have Dr. Johnson . " — " What ...
... seen a greater number of literary men , than at any other , except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds , had invited me to meet Mr. Wilkes and some more gentlemen , on Wednesday , May 15. " Pray ( said I , ) let us have Dr. Johnson . " — " What ...
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... seen . I will not deliver your message . I will drink his small - beer . " Somebody observed that Garrick could not have done this . WILKES . " Garrick would have made the small - beer still smaller . He is now leaving the stage ; but ...
... seen . I will not deliver your message . I will drink his small - beer . " Somebody observed that Garrick could not have done this . WILKES . " Garrick would have made the small - beer still smaller . He is now leaving the stage ; but ...
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Página 115 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Página 536 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Página 483 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Página 359 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Página 251 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Página 366 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Página 200 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Página 529 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known...
Página 365 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.