The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science. AuthorsVizetelly, Branston and Company, 1834 |
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... means of causing the repeal of the act . In 1754 , he en- deavoured to call the attention of government to the bad state of the streets in London and Westminster , by a letter which he published on the sub- ject to Mr. Spranger , on his ...
... means of causing the repeal of the act . In 1754 , he en- deavoured to call the attention of government to the bad state of the streets in London and Westminster , by a letter which he published on the sub- ject to Mr. Spranger , on his ...
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... means au fait in the art of con- versation . In 1773 , he pleaded the cause of another class of unfortunate human beings , in a publication called The State of the Chimney Sweeper's Apprentices ; for whose relief he promoted a sub ...
... means au fait in the art of con- versation . In 1773 , he pleaded the cause of another class of unfortunate human beings , in a publication called The State of the Chimney Sweeper's Apprentices ; for whose relief he promoted a sub ...
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... means , to hold out . " He kept , till the day of his death , a resolution he had made , to avoid all public distinctive characters ; accordingly , though member of several literary and scientific societies , he re- fused all ...
... means , to hold out . " He kept , till the day of his death , a resolution he had made , to avoid all public distinctive characters ; accordingly , though member of several literary and scientific societies , he re- fused all ...
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... means of preventing its con- tagion . His intent , therefore , as his biographer observes , was nothing less than to plunge into the midst of those dangers , which , by other men , are so anxiously avoided ; to search out and confront ...
... means of preventing its con- tagion . His intent , therefore , as his biographer observes , was nothing less than to plunge into the midst of those dangers , which , by other men , are so anxiously avoided ; to search out and confront ...
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... mean and forbidding , at first sight . His manners will be better appreciated if we say that they denoted rather the Christian than the gentle- man ; though , even in the most worldly sense of the word , he was by no means deficient in ...
... mean and forbidding , at first sight . His manners will be better appreciated if we say that they denoted rather the Christian than the gentle- man ; though , even in the most worldly sense of the word , he was by no means deficient in ...
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Page 370 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 312 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Page 144 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 311 - Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Page 368 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Page 307 - Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Page 307 - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Page 420 - During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Page 385 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page 314 - The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."^) In this resolution he persevered, and, at the same time, used only the weakest kinds of sustenance.