Selections from the SpectatorMacmillan and Company, 1892 - Всего страниц: 220 |
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... , And scarce her form remains . There was a great change in the hill of money bags and the heaps of money ; the former shrinking , and falling into 30 10 so many empty bags , that I now found PUBLIC CREDIT , A VISION . 13.
... , And scarce her form remains . There was a great change in the hill of money bags and the heaps of money ; the former shrinking , and falling into 30 10 so many empty bags , that I now found PUBLIC CREDIT , A VISION . 13.
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... former bulk ; the piles of faggots , and heaps of paper , changed into 20 pyramids of guineas : and , for my own part , I was so trans- ported with joy that I awaked ; though , I must confess , I would fain have fallen asleep again to ...
... former bulk ; the piles of faggots , and heaps of paper , changed into 20 pyramids of guineas : and , for my own part , I was so trans- ported with joy that I awaked ; though , I must confess , I would fain have fallen asleep again to ...
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... former dominions , and to see so many private men , who in his time would have been the vassals of some powerful baron , negotiating like 30 princes for greater sums of money than were formerly to be met with in the royal treasury ...
... former dominions , and to see so many private men , who in his time would have been the vassals of some powerful baron , negotiating like 30 princes for greater sums of money than were formerly to be met with in the royal treasury ...
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... former , it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfac- tion to an honest mind , than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public : a man is more sure of ...
... former , it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfac- tion to an honest mind , than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public : a man is more sure of ...
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... former , nature has 10 given all the little arts of soothing and blandishment to the female , that she may cheer and animate her companion in a constant and assiduous application to the making a provision for his family and the ...
... former , nature has 10 given all the little arts of soothing and blandishment to the female , that she may cheer and animate her companion in a constant and assiduous application to the making a provision for his family and the ...
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Стр. 76 - Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that) were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Стр. 74 - I was thus musing, I cast my eyes towards the summit of a rock that was not far from me, where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd, with a little musical instrument in his hand.
Стр. 21 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Стр. 21 - ... though I am always serious, I do not know what it is to be melancholy; and can therefore take , a view of nature, in her deep and solemn scenes, with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones.
Стр. 7 - His notions of trade are noble and generous, and (as every rich man has usually some sly way of jesting which would make no great figure were he not a rich man) he calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms, for true power is to be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation, — and if another,...
Стр. 78 - 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 them.
Стр. 76 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon. further examination, perceived there were innumerable trapdoors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon, but they fell through them into the tide, and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many...
Стр. 125 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Стр. 132 - Knowing that you was my old Master's good Friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy News of his Death, which has afflicted the whole Country, as well as his poor Servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our Lives. I am afraid he caught his Death the last County...
Стр. 53 - ... he has been useless for several years. I could not but observe with a great deal of pleasure the joy that appeared in the countenances of these ancient domestics upon my friend's arrival at his country seat.