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... gentleman commonly asked , not where he resided , but which coffee - house he frequented ? No decently attired idler was ex- cluded , provided he laid down his penny at the bar ; but this he could seldom do without struggling through ...
... gentleman commonly asked , not where he resided , but which coffee - house he frequented ? No decently attired idler was ex- cluded , provided he laid down his penny at the bar ; but this he could seldom do without struggling through ...
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... gentlemen who are con- cerned with me in this work ; for , as I have before intimated , a plan of it is laid and concerted ( as all other matters of importance are ) in a club . However , as my friends have engaged me to 1 1 The word ...
... gentlemen who are con- cerned with me in this work ; for , as I have before intimated , a plan of it is laid and concerted ( as all other matters of importance are ) in a club . However , as my friends have engaged me to 1 1 The word ...
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... gentleman of Worcestershire , of anent descent , a baronet , his name Sir Roger de Coverly . His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance 1 V. Introductory remarks . - G . 2 Whenever any striking individuality ...
... gentleman of Worcestershire , of anent descent , a baronet , his name Sir Roger de Coverly . His great grandfather was inventor of that famous country - dance 1 V. Introductory remarks . - G . 2 Whenever any striking individuality ...
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... gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour , but his singula- city of Worcester , proved himself so powerful a plaintiff that he ousted the then Bishop of Worcester from his place of Royal Almoner for inter- fering in the county ...
... gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour , but his singula- city of Worcester , proved himself so powerful a plaintiff that he ousted the then Bishop of Worcester from his place of Royal Almoner for inter- fering in the county ...
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... gentleman , had often supped with my Lord Ro- chester and Sir George Etherege , fought a duel upon his first coming to town , and kicked Bully Dawson ' in a public coffee- house for calling him youngster . But being ill used by the ...
... gentleman , had often supped with my Lord Ro- chester and Sir George Etherege , fought a duel upon his first coming to town , and kicked Bully Dawson ' in a public coffee- house for calling him youngster . But being ill used by the ...
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Page 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Page 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Page 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
Page 220 - The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.
Page 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
Page 6 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.
Page 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Page 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.