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... language , and introducing these heedless boys into the pleasures of the place , easily insinuate themselves into their good graces ; and then , with no less art than judgment , gradually instil into their vacant minds the poisons of ...
... language , and introducing these heedless boys into the pleasures of the place , easily insinuate themselves into their good graces ; and then , with no less art than judgment , gradually instil into their vacant minds the poisons of ...
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... language , and would fain know why it is that peo- ple can find no term to express their design of stay- ing fifteen days at your house , different from that which signifies fifteen minutes ? Have they no way of expressing the time of ...
... language , and would fain know why it is that peo- ple can find no term to express their design of stay- ing fifteen days at your house , different from that which signifies fifteen minutes ? Have they no way of expressing the time of ...
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... language , but her manners and dress . A superficial view of the history of old Rome will present us with every similar circumstance of cor- ruption ....... God forbid a similar fate should over- take us ! I have hitherto suppressed an ...
... language , but her manners and dress . A superficial view of the history of old Rome will present us with every similar circumstance of cor- ruption ....... God forbid a similar fate should over- take us ! I have hitherto suppressed an ...
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... language of the place . A military man no sooner entered a room , than you associated the discharge of artillery with his appearance . The authority of his voice silenced every milder subject of conversation , and the battles of ...
... language of the place . A military man no sooner entered a room , than you associated the discharge of artillery with his appearance . The authority of his voice silenced every milder subject of conversation , and the battles of ...
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... language prefixed , will be published this winter , in two large volumes in folio . I had long lamented that we had no lawful standard of our language set up , for those to repair to , who might chuse to speak and write it grammatically ...
... language prefixed , will be published this winter , in two large volumes in folio . I had long lamented that we had no lawful standard of our language set up , for those to repair to , who might chuse to speak and write it grammatically ...
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Page 252 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Page 36 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 190 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.
Page 280 - ... gentleman two letters of excuses, which with less wit than the epistles of Voiture, had ten times more natural and easy politeness in the turn of their expression. In the postscript, he appointed a meeting at Tyburn at twelve...
Page 205 - You mistake me (answered my friend); every member of our club has the privilege of bringing one friend along with him, who is by no means thereby...
Page 262 - All words, good or bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it.
Page 103 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Page 176 - ... weaning his heart from the immoderate love of earthly things, and teaching him to revere the gods, and to place his whole trust and happiness in their government and protection.
Page 72 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Page 206 - As I found that my friend would have taken a refusal ill, I told him that for this once I would certainly attend him to the club, but desired him to give me previously the outlines of the characters of the sitting members, that I might know how to behave myself properly. "Your precaution (said he) is a prudent one, and I will make you so well acquainted with them beforehand, that you shall not seem a stranger when among them. You must know then that our club consists of at least forty members when...