Harrison's British Classicks, Zväzok 6Harrison and Company, 1786 |
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Strana 17
... look to it- let them look to it - I'll bid adieu to my ungrateful country , go directly to Berlin , and ( as Voltaire is difcarded ) employ my pen in the fervice of that encourager of literary merit the King of Pruffia . As feveral ...
... look to it- let them look to it - I'll bid adieu to my ungrateful country , go directly to Berlin , and ( as Voltaire is difcarded ) employ my pen in the fervice of that encourager of literary merit the King of Pruffia . As feveral ...
Strana 18
... look , or what to fay . I confider them as playing a game , in which the ftander - by is not at all interefted ; and would therefore- recommend it to every third person in these circumstances , to take it as an hint , that the parties ...
... look , or what to fay . I confider them as playing a game , in which the ftander - by is not at all interefted ; and would therefore- recommend it to every third person in these circumstances , to take it as an hint , that the parties ...
Strana 25
... look into the lives of the great- eft generals of antiquity , we fhall find them no mean proficients in fcience . They led their armies to victory by their courage , and fupported the state by their counfels . They revered the fame Pal ...
... look into the lives of the great- eft generals of antiquity , we fhall find them no mean proficients in fcience . They led their armies to victory by their courage , and fupported the state by their counfels . They revered the fame Pal ...
Strana 43
... look on his thefts as real acts of felony ; but while he owns that he would take any pains to fteal an old rufty piece of brafs , boats that you may fafely truft him with untold gold : though he would break open your cabinet for a fhell ...
... look on his thefts as real acts of felony ; but while he owns that he would take any pains to fteal an old rufty piece of brafs , boats that you may fafely truft him with untold gold : though he would break open your cabinet for a fhell ...
Strana 47
... look beft by candle light ? The general com- plaint against the country is want of amufement , or want of company : but thefe common inconveniences are trifles in comparison to the fufferings of the poor lady , who wrote the following ...
... look beft by candle light ? The general com- plaint against the country is want of amufement , or want of company : but thefe common inconveniences are trifles in comparison to the fufferings of the poor lady , who wrote the following ...
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Časté výrazy a frázy
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Populárne pasáže
Strana 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?
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.