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... force . And is this your case , Britons ! Will you be ruined by a peo- ple whom you ought to despise ? Have they not been twenty years trying your strength , till they find it impossible for them to master you ? And are they brought to ...
... force . And is this your case , Britons ! Will you be ruined by a peo- ple whom you ought to despise ? Have they not been twenty years trying your strength , till they find it impossible for them to master you ? And are they brought to ...
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... forces to do so ! • • This sums up the happiness of the Pretender's reign . We need not talk of security , as the Review has done , and pretend he is not able to give us security for the performance of any- thing he promises . Every man ...
... forces to do so ! • • This sums up the happiness of the Pretender's reign . We need not talk of security , as the Review has done , and pretend he is not able to give us security for the performance of any- thing he promises . Every man ...
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... yet not seeming wholly of force to establish a command 1 This and the Latin phrases that follow burlesque the jargon of the Schoolmen of the mediæval church . ( being resolved to avoid farther scruple , as well A TALE OF A TUB 63.
... yet not seeming wholly of force to establish a command 1 This and the Latin phrases that follow burlesque the jargon of the Schoolmen of the mediæval church . ( being resolved to avoid farther scruple , as well A TALE OF A TUB 63.
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... force very fairly kicked them both out of doors , and would never let them come under his roof from that day to this ... The two exiles , so nearly united in fortune and interest , took a lodging together ; where , at their first ...
... force very fairly kicked them both out of doors , and would never let them come under his roof from that day to this ... The two exiles , so nearly united in fortune and interest , took a lodging together ; where , at their first ...
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... force of his reasoning upon such abtruse matters . . . . A DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL , THE USE , AND IM- PROVEMENT OF MADNESS , IN A COMMONWEALTH The reader will , I am sure , agree with me in the conclu- sion that , if the ...
... force of his reasoning upon such abtruse matters . . . . A DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL , THE USE , AND IM- PROVEMENT OF MADNESS , IN A COMMONWEALTH The reader will , I am sure , agree with me in the conclu- sion that , if the ...
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Page 636 - 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 545 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 546 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 46 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 362 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Page 370 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...
Page 193 - As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from any thing I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of their last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Page 406 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Page 195 - on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 635 - 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...