Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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... continued af- terwards in my fleep ; when methought fuch proceedings were common in our own courts of judicature . I imagined myfelf in a spacious hall like the Old Bailey , where they were preparing to try feveral animals , who had ...
... continued af- terwards in my fleep ; when methought fuch proceedings were common in our own courts of judicature . I imagined myfelf in a spacious hall like the Old Bailey , where they were preparing to try feveral animals , who had ...
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... continued laugh and whifper from the beginning to the end of dinner . A whole fentence was scarce ever spoken aloud . Single words , in- deed , now and then broke forth ; fuch as odious , borrible , deteftable , fhocking , HUMBUG . This ...
... continued laugh and whifper from the beginning to the end of dinner . A whole fentence was scarce ever spoken aloud . Single words , in- deed , now and then broke forth ; fuch as odious , borrible , deteftable , fhocking , HUMBUG . This ...
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... continued round of extravagance and debauchery ; —let our young ladies be taught nothing but gallantry and whift , and be feen only at routs and affen- blies ; if the confequence extend not beyond themfelves . But as thefe are to be the ...
... continued round of extravagance and debauchery ; —let our young ladies be taught nothing but gallantry and whift , and be feen only at routs and affen- blies ; if the confequence extend not beyond themfelves . But as thefe are to be the ...
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... continued down and fastened close to their wrifts , while only their feet were allowed just to peep from beneath the modeft fardingale ; fo that nothing was expofed to the impertinent eye of man but their faces . Our mo- dern ladies ...
... continued down and fastened close to their wrifts , while only their feet were allowed just to peep from beneath the modeft fardingale ; fo that nothing was expofed to the impertinent eye of man but their faces . Our mo- dern ladies ...
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... continued every year to fhed fome other part of their drefs , as ufelefs and unornamental . But thefe are only half affertions of the female rights and natural liberty , in comparison to the project , which , it is thought , will be ...
... continued every year to fhed fome other part of their drefs , as ufelefs and unornamental . But thefe are only half affertions of the female rights and natural liberty , in comparison to the project , which , it is thought , will be ...
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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.