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 ... |
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... Marriage , IV . Oriental Eclogues Remarkable Anecdotes , or fe- cret Hiftories of Eminent Perfons , Extracts from the Works of Voltair , Churchill , & other great Genius's , Rules for the Conduct of Life , and Sayings of Wise Men ...
... Marriage , IV . Oriental Eclogues Remarkable Anecdotes , or fe- cret Hiftories of Eminent Perfons , Extracts from the Works of Voltair , Churchill , & other great Genius's , Rules for the Conduct of Life , and Sayings of Wise Men ...
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... married to a Lieutenant - Colonel of the garrifon , had vowed a fine fuit of cloaths to the Ma- dona of the Jefuits , in case the blockade of the town was foon raised , he bought as many yards of the finest stuff that could be found ...
... married to a Lieutenant - Colonel of the garrifon , had vowed a fine fuit of cloaths to the Ma- dona of the Jefuits , in case the blockade of the town was foon raised , he bought as many yards of the finest stuff that could be found ...
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... MARRIAGE . You OU tell me , the dispute which was carried on in our com- pany the other day , has rather made you a fceptic to both , than a convert to either fide of the question ; and you defire my deliberate fentiments on the fubject ...
... MARRIAGE . You OU tell me , the dispute which was carried on in our com- pany the other day , has rather made you a fceptic to both , than a convert to either fide of the question ; and you defire my deliberate fentiments on the fubject ...
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... MARRIAGE . But in young minds , for of fuch only I fpeak , where there are commonly docile and pliable difpofitions , is it an infupera- ble talk to raife in them an ambition for good fenfe , and a judicious tafte ? There are many ...
... MARRIAGE . But in young minds , for of fuch only I fpeak , where there are commonly docile and pliable difpofitions , is it an infupera- ble talk to raife in them an ambition for good fenfe , and a judicious tafte ? There are many ...
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... marriage , I cannot but afcribe the many just fatyrs that are thrown out against it . But would we " Here the difcourfe was interrupted by a circumftance which I doubt not you well remember . Had the gentleman proceeded , your opinion ...
... marriage , I cannot but afcribe the many just fatyrs that are thrown out against it . But would we " Here the difcourfe was interrupted by a circumftance which I doubt not you well remember . Had the gentleman proceeded , your opinion ...
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Page 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.
Page 114 - Ye mute Companions of my Toils, that bear In all my Griefs a more than equal Share!
Page 176 - By lust incited, or by malice led, The villain Arab ! as he prowls for prey, Oft marks with blood and...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 103 - Grac'd with soft arts, the peopled world around ! The morn that lights you to your loves...
Page 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.
Page 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...