Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining letters [selected by V. Knox].1812 |
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... suppose , with all your conviction of my idleness , that I have passed all this time without writing to my Baretti . I gave a letter to Mr. Beauclerk , who , in my opinion and in his own , was hastening to Naples for the recovery of his ...
... suppose , with all your conviction of my idleness , that I have passed all this time without writing to my Baretti . I gave a letter to Mr. Beauclerk , who , in my opinion and in his own , was hastening to Naples for the recovery of his ...
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... suppose about half a minute ; I was alarmed , and prayed God , that however he might afflict my body , he would spare my under- standing . This prayer , that I might try the inte- grity of my faculties , I made in Latin verse . The ...
... suppose about half a minute ; I was alarmed , and prayed God , that however he might afflict my body , he would spare my under- standing . This prayer , that I might try the inte- grity of my faculties , I made in Latin verse . The ...
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... suppose you may wish to know how my disease is treated by the physicians . They put a blister upon my back , and two from my ear to my throat , ⚫ one on a side . The blister on the back has done little , and those on the throat have ...
... suppose you may wish to know how my disease is treated by the physicians . They put a blister upon my back , and two from my ear to my throat , ⚫ one on a side . The blister on the back has done little , and those on the throat have ...
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... suppose , in devo- tion , reading , work , and company . Of your de- votions , in which I earnestly advise you to be very punctual , you may not perhaps think it proper to give me an account ; and of work , un- less I understood it ...
... suppose , in devo- tion , reading , work , and company . Of your de- votions , in which I earnestly advise you to be very punctual , you may not perhaps think it proper to give me an account ; and of work , un- less I understood it ...
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... suppose , come very often , nor stay very long ; yet your advance in the science of numbers is greater than is commonly made by those who , for so many weeks as you have been learning , spend six hours a day in the writing - school ...
... suppose , come very often , nor stay very long ; yet your advance in the science of numbers is greater than is commonly made by those who , for so many weeks as you have been learning , spend six hours a day in the writing - school ...
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Page 5 - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and...
Page 6 - I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door...
Page 23 - I was alarmed, and prayed God, that however he might afflict my body, he would spare my understanding. This prayer, that I might try the integrity of my faculties, I made in Latin verse. The lines were not very good, but I knew them not to be very good: I made them easily, and concluded myself to be unimpaired in my faculties.
Page 6 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 6 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 5 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was over-powered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself...
Page 23 - I put myself into violent motion, and I think repeated it; but all was vain. I then went to bed, and, strange as it may seem, I think slept. When I saw light, it was time to contrive what I should do. Though God stopped my speech, he left me my hand : I enjoyed a mercy which was not granted to my dear friend Lawrence, who now perhaps overlooks me as I am writing, and rejoices that I have what he wanted. My first note was necessarily to my servant, who came in talking, and could not immediately comprehend...
Page 5 - When upon some slight encouragement I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered like the rest of mankind by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Page 48 - So long as I am pleased with an employment, I am capable of unwearied application, because my feelings are all of the intense kind. I never received a little pleasure from any thing in my life; if I am delighted, it is in the extreme.
Page 101 - ... either side of you, you shall see on the right hand a box of my making. It is the box in which have been lodged all my hares, and in which lodges Puss at present ; but he, poor fellow, is worn out with age, and promises to die before you can see him. On the right hand stands a cupboard, the work of the same author ; it was once a dove-cage, but I transformed it. Opposite to you stands a table, which I also made ; but a merciless servant having scrubbed it...