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... delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours . As I was walking with him . last night , he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ; and without staying ...
... delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours . As I was walking with him . last night , he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ; and without staying ...
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... delighted , when the court rose , to see the gentlemen of the country gathering about my old friend , and striving who should compliment him most ; at the same time that the ordinary people gazed upon him at a distance , not a little 30 ...
... delighted , when the court rose , to see the gentlemen of the country gathering about my old friend , and striving who should compliment him most ; at the same time that the ordinary people gazed upon him at a distance , not a little 30 ...
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... delighted with the reflection of my old friend , which carried so much goodness in it . He then launched out into the praise of the late Act of Parliament1 for securing the Church of England , and told me , with great satisfaction ...
... delighted with the reflection of my old friend , which carried so much goodness in it . He then launched out into the praise of the late Act of Parliament1 for securing the Church of England , and told me , with great satisfaction ...
Page 37
... delight in complying with everything that is agree- able to him , and accordingly waited on him to the coffee - house , where his venerable figure drew upon us the eyes of the whole room . He had no sooner seated himself at the upper ...
... delight in complying with everything that is agree- able to him , and accordingly waited on him to the coffee - house , where his venerable figure drew upon us the eyes of the whole room . He had no sooner seated himself at the upper ...
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... delighted with several modern epitaphs , which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought , and therefore do honour to the living as well as to the dead . As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ...
... delighted with several modern epitaphs , which are written with great elegance of expression and justness of thought , and therefore do honour to the living as well as to the dead . As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ...
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Page 59 - ... thick for the eye to penetrate, I saw the valley opening at the farther end, and spreading forth into an immense ocean, that had a huge rock of adamant running through the midst of it, and dividing it into two equal parts. The clouds still rested on one half of it, insomuch that 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...
Page 20 - As Sir Roger is landlord to the whole congregation, he keeps them in very good order, and will suffer nobody to sleep in it besides himself; for if, by chance, he has been surprised into a short nap at sermon, upon recovering out of it he stands up and looks about him, and, if he sees anybody else nodding, either wakes them himself, or sends his servants to them.
Page 56 - ... him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, 'Mirza,' said he, 'I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Page 55 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 14 - He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were Well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal •maxims, amongst which the greatest favourite is,. ' A penny saved is a penny got.
Page 13 - He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house both in town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behaviour, that he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Page 7 - I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 58 - I, man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery and mortality! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Page 59 - I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. The islands...
Page 92 - The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noon-day walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.