The Polite Miscellany: Containing Variety of Food for the Mind; Being an Elegant Collection of Moral, Humourous, and Improving Essays, &c, Both in Prose and Verse ...R. Whitworth, 1764 - 370 strán (strany) |
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Strana 23
... most part they early imbibe ; the too much attention and artifice they are taught to beftow on their perfons ; the tri- fling , and often ill - judged accomplishments , by which their ambition is excited , and in which , for the most ...
... most part they early imbibe ; the too much attention and artifice they are taught to beftow on their perfons ; the tri- fling , and often ill - judged accomplishments , by which their ambition is excited , and in which , for the most ...
Strana 24
... most arrant tell - tale by all my play - fellows . It would be an endless work for me to enumerate all the particulars , in which I have employed those little arts , which have never failed to recommend me every where . Suffice it to ...
... most arrant tell - tale by all my play - fellows . It would be an endless work for me to enumerate all the particulars , in which I have employed those little arts , which have never failed to recommend me every where . Suffice it to ...
Strana 24
... most books of voyages and travels , the authors of which are known to be very intimate with me even to a proverb : I have com- piled many volumes of impartial hiftories ; I have furnished many new systems in philofophy , and have ...
... most books of voyages and travels , the authors of which are known to be very intimate with me even to a proverb : I have com- piled many volumes of impartial hiftories ; I have furnished many new systems in philofophy , and have ...
Strana 24
... most like the fickle of any . The French is a direct cradle fcythe , only the handle is quite straight . Now when the crop is cut , it may not be amifs to shew how it is stacked to preserve it from the wet , in which fitu- ation it may ...
... most like the fickle of any . The French is a direct cradle fcythe , only the handle is quite straight . Now when the crop is cut , it may not be amifs to shew how it is stacked to preserve it from the wet , in which fitu- ation it may ...
Strana 24
... most of them ! How many proftitute themselves for a good fettlement , under the legal title of a wife ! And how many facrifice themselves to repair a broken fortune , or to gain one ! Are thefe muckworms to expect any focial happinefs ...
... most of them ! How many proftitute themselves for a good fettlement , under the legal title of a wife ! And how many facrifice themselves to repair a broken fortune , or to gain one ! Are thefe muckworms to expect any focial happinefs ...
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Strana 203 - King, upon the commencement of the last war with France pulled down his old sign, and put up the Queen of Hungary. Under the influence of her red face and golden sceptre, he continued to sell ale till she was no longer the favourite of his customers; he changed her, therefore, some time ago, for the King of Prussia, who may probably be changed in turn for the next great man that shall be set up for vulgar admiration.
Strana 114 - Ye mute Companions of my Toils, that bear In all my Griefs a more than equal Share!
Strana 176 - By lust incited, or by malice led, The villain Arab ! as he prowls for prey, Oft marks with blood and...
Strana 121 - ... more thought, memory, and application to be fools, than would serve to make them wise and useful. When I reflect on this, I cannot conceive you to be human creatures, but a...
Strana 114 - What if the lion in his rage I meet ! — Oft in the dust I view his printed feet: And, fearful ! oft, when day's declining light Yields her pale empire to the mourner night, By hunger...
Strana 232 - Griping misers, nightly waking, See the end of all your care ; Fled on wings of our own making, We have left our owners bare.
Strana 205 - ... the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. Where was there ever so much merit seen ; no times so important as our own ; ages yet unborn shall gaze with wonder and applause...
Strana 103 - Grac'd with soft arts, the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you to your loves...
Strana 24 - Till thou hast bless'd their memory, and paid Those thanks which God appointed the reward Of public virtue. And if chance thy home Salute thee with a father's honour'd name, Go, call thy sons; instruct them what a debt They owe their ancestors; and make them swear To pay it, by transmitting down entire Those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
Strana 287 - Little do such men know the toil, the pains, The daily, nightly racking of the brains, To range the thoughts, the matter to digest, To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest...