Harrison's British Classicks, Svazek 7Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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Strana 8
... fupport the other , their difficulties vanithed , and they faw themselves the favourites of all companies , and the parties of their pleafures , feftivals , and amufements . The fallies of Affurance were continually checked by the ...
... fupport the other , their difficulties vanithed , and they faw themselves the favourites of all companies , and the parties of their pleafures , feftivals , and amufements . The fallies of Affurance were continually checked by the ...
Strana 21
... fup- port it , no taxes to maintain it , no ex- cifes , no lotteries to provide funds for it's deficiencies and emergencies . A nation fo generous , fo renowned for the efforts it has always made in the common cause of liberty , can ...
... fup- port it , no taxes to maintain it , no ex- cifes , no lotteries to provide funds for it's deficiencies and emergencies . A nation fo generous , fo renowned for the efforts it has always made in the common cause of liberty , can ...
Strana 28
... fup- port vaft weights ; while ignorant people , who knew nothing of centres of gravity , were to tremble at their entrance into every building , left the roofs fhould fall upon their heads . This , however odd it might feem , and ...
... fup- port vaft weights ; while ignorant people , who knew nothing of centres of gravity , were to tremble at their entrance into every building , left the roofs fhould fall upon their heads . This , however odd it might feem , and ...
Strana 47
... fupport it . The gen- tlemen who never read any thing elfe , will , I know , be at a lofs for amufe- ment , and feel their half hour of morn- ing hang rather too heavy on their hands . But furely , Mr. Fitz Adam , when they confider the ...
... fupport it . The gen- tlemen who never read any thing elfe , will , I know , be at a lofs for amufe- ment , and feel their half hour of morn- ing hang rather too heavy on their hands . But furely , Mr. Fitz Adam , when they confider the ...
Strana 53
... fupport me , having had the misfortune to feel , in my own proper perfon , how efficacious the finart of a little flagelia- tion is to correct an inordinate paffion for travelling : for the rage of travel , Sr , prevails in our little ...
... fupport me , having had the misfortune to feel , in my own proper perfon , how efficacious the finart of a little flagelia- tion is to correct an inordinate paffion for travelling : for the rage of travel , Sr , prevails in our little ...
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Strana 163 - that there are many people in the world who would never have been in love if they had never heard talk of it.
Strana 205 - I find you are but a bad engineer. While you aim at your mouth you will never hit it, take my word for it. A floating battery, to hit the mark, must be pointed something above or below it. If you would hit your mouth, direct your four-pounder at your forehead, or your chin.
Strana 79 - Now sir, I have told you as much as I know of it, though I have admired and aimed at it all my Life.
Strana 79 - Your daughters muft have been fo educated as to fit them to be wives without conjugal affedlion, and mothers without maternal care.
Strana 42 - I can allure you, fir, that it is a very ferious one to me, notwithftanding the ill-natured comfort which I might have, of thinking it of late a very common one. I AM a gentleman of a reafonable paternal eftate in my county, and ferve as knight of the fhire for it.
Strana 366 - I sat like a mope all the night, not daring to look up, for fear of catching the eyes of my acquaintance, who would have laughed me out of countenance. You may imagine, Mr. Fitz-Adam, that I contrived all manner of means to get off from any future engagements with my cousins ; but it has unfortunately so happened, that we have met almost every where.
Strana 365 - I cannot but hope it will have some good effect on the conduct of those polite people, who are too sagacious, learned, and courageous to be kept in awe by the threats of hell and damnation...
Strana 39 - I never faw either of them fo much as playing with the other's hand — I mean only when they have known I was within fight of them ; I have ftolen upon them unawares indeed, and have been witnefs to fuch words and looks as have quite melted me.
Strana 22 - ... by the benefit than he had been before by his wants. But it is the peculiar talent of this gentleman to wound himfelf by proxy, or (in the fportfman's phrafe) to' knock himfelf down by by the recoiling of his own gun.
Strana 41 - Such horfes have their necks adorned <c with firings of beads, and relicks, being writings " wrapt up in cloth of gold, or filk, containing the " names of their prophet, and when thefe horfes die, " they are buried with as much ceremony, as the near• " eft relations of their owners.