The Spectator: ...J. Tonson, 1718 |
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... Young ; and the Boy is to marry as foon as he is at Age to redeem it , and find Portions for his Sifters . This , forfooth , is no great Inconvenience to him ; for he may Wench , keep a publick Table , or feed Dogs , like a worthy ...
... Young ; and the Boy is to marry as foon as he is at Age to redeem it , and find Portions for his Sifters . This , forfooth , is no great Inconvenience to him ; for he may Wench , keep a publick Table , or feed Dogs , like a worthy ...
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... young Girls about Town- I need be particular in nothing but the Make of my Face , which has the Misfortune to be exactly Oval . This I take to proceed from a Temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and to hear . WITH this ...
... young Girls about Town- I need be particular in nothing but the Make of my Face , which has the Misfortune to be exactly Oval . This I take to proceed from a Temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and to hear . WITH this ...
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... young Merchants too long near Change , and another Fair one who keeps the Students at her Houfe when they fhould be at Study . It would be worth your while to fee how the Idola- ters alternately offer Incense to their Idols , and what ...
... young Merchants too long near Change , and another Fair one who keeps the Students at her Houfe when they fhould be at Study . It would be worth your while to fee how the Idola- ters alternately offer Incense to their Idols , and what ...
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... young Lady gave me of the Loves of a Family in Town , which fhall be name- lefs ; or rather for the better Sound and Elevation of the History , instead of Mr. and Mrs. fuch a one , I shall call them by feigned Names . Without further ...
... young Lady gave me of the Loves of a Family in Town , which fhall be name- lefs ; or rather for the better Sound and Elevation of the History , instead of Mr. and Mrs. fuch a one , I shall call them by feigned Names . Without further ...
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... young Women of this Age , who affume to themfelves an Authority of carrying all things before them , as if they were Poffeflors of the Efteem of Mankind ; and all , who were but a Year before them in the World , were neglected or de ...
... young Women of this Age , who affume to themfelves an Authority of carrying all things before them , as if they were Poffeflors of the Efteem of Mankind ; and all , who were but a Year before them in the World , were neglected or de ...
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Стр. 277 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating, but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.
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Стр. 147 - ... for any man under a duke; but told him at the same time, that it might be altered with a very few touches, and that he himself would be at the charge of it. Accordingly they got a painter, by the knight's directions, to add a pair of whiskers to the face, and by a little aggravation of the features to change it into the Saracen's Head.
Стр. 46 - ... hours which we here employ in virtue or in vice, the argument redoubles upon us for putting in practice this method of passing away our time. When a man has but a little stock to improve, and has opportunities of turning it all to good account, what shall we think of him...
Стр. 89 - My worthy friend has put me under the particular care of his butler, who is a very prudent man, and, as well as the rest of his fellow-servants, wonderfully desirous of pleasing me, because they have often heard their master talk of me as of his particular friend.
Стр. 120 - Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty ; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise.
Стр. 145 - Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several times Foreman of the Petty Jury.
Стр. 144 - ... former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.
Стр. 277 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them.