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... Common Converfation XXVIII . On Contcience . Terrible Exit of Tom Dare - Devil , a Buck , and an Atheist . Summary of the most notorious Actions of his Life XXIX . On the Vanity of Authors . Different Reception and Fate of these Elays ...
... Common Converfation XXVIII . On Contcience . Terrible Exit of Tom Dare - Devil , a Buck , and an Atheist . Summary of the most notorious Actions of his Life XXIX . On the Vanity of Authors . Different Reception and Fate of these Elays ...
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... common Bills of Mortality LI . On Kept Miftreffes and Keepers . Character of an Hen - pecked Keeper of a Keeper , a Married Man - of a Keeper , an Old Man . Shifts of Perfons in Middling or Low Life , who take Girls into Keeping - - 114 ...
... common Bills of Mortality LI . On Kept Miftreffes and Keepers . Character of an Hen - pecked Keeper of a Keeper , a Married Man - of a Keeper , an Old Man . Shifts of Perfons in Middling or Low Life , who take Girls into Keeping - - 114 ...
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... common stile ) upon a kind of cart - wheel , but on the two wheels of the lottery , with a repre- fentation of a net caft over the leffer engroffers of tickets , while a Chief Ma- nager is breaking his way through the meshes . I must ...
... common stile ) upon a kind of cart - wheel , but on the two wheels of the lottery , with a repre- fentation of a net caft over the leffer engroffers of tickets , while a Chief Ma- nager is breaking his way through the meshes . I must ...
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... common- council men of this city , is infected to a ftrong degree with the prefent peftilence . His chief complaint is a canine appetite ' ; and his wife affures me , the has often felt the wolf in his belly . The feat of this distemper ...
... common- council men of this city , is infected to a ftrong degree with the prefent peftilence . His chief complaint is a canine appetite ' ; and his wife affures me , the has often felt the wolf in his belly . The feat of this distemper ...
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... common among the married people ; I mean the abfurd trick of Fondling before com- pany . Love is , indeed , a very rare in- gredient in modern wedlock ; nor can the parties entertain too much affection for each other : but an open ...
... common among the married people ; I mean the abfurd trick of Fondling before com- pany . Love is , indeed , a very rare in- gredient in modern wedlock ; nor can the parties entertain too much affection for each other : but an open ...
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Common terms and phrases
abfurd acquaintance affured alfo almoft amufement Babler bagnios beauty becauſe cafe China Chineſe Clare Market confequence confider confiderable converfation Dæmon defign defire drefs endeavour faid fame fashion fcarce feemed feen felf felves fenfe fenfible fent fervant ferve fervice feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide filk fince fingle firft fituation fociety fome fomething fometimes foon fortune fpirit ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure gentleman himſelf honour horfe houfe houſe huſband inftance juft lady laft leaft lefs LETTER look manner ment Mifs moft moſt muft muſt myfelf nature neceffary neral never obferved obliged occafion paffed paffion perfon philofopher pleafed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent racter reafon refolved refpect reft thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion town ufual univerfal uſed vifit whofe whole wife worfe young
Popular passages
Page 7 - I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by' the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 313 - Mr. Town is a fair, black, middle-sized, very short man. He wears his own hair, and a periwig. He is about thirty years of age, and not more than four and twenty. He is a student of the law, and a bachelor of physic.
Page 196 - The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention ; are enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers...
Page 198 - Our crew was carried into a French prison, and many of them died because they were not used to live in a jail ; but for my part it was nothing to me, for I was seasoned. One night...
Page 44 - He told the story of the ivy-tree, and that was laughed at; he repeated the jest of the two scholars and one pair of breeches, and the company laughed at that; but the story of Taffy in the sedan-chair, was sure to set the table in a roar.
Page 220 - Umbrae, or shadows; and, indeed, this appellation conveys a very full idea of the nature of these humble retainers to the wealthy, since they not only follow them like their shadows, but ' like a shadow prove the substance true...
Page 29 - ... you are to be drawn on hurdles to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead...
Page 143 - The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Page 43 - Some affect humanity and tenderness, others boast of having such dispositions from nature ; but he is the only man I ever knew who seemed ashamed of his natural benevolence. He takes as much pains to hide his feelings, as any hypocrite would to conceal his indifference ; but on every unguarded moment the mask drops off, and reveals him to the most superficial observer.
Page 253 - ... of horses, let six bright bays, blacks, or greys prance down one side of her head ; and according to the rank she insists upon, let a ducal or an earl's coronet, or a bloody hand be distinguished upon her capriole.