Eccentric Personages: Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of Remarable Characters, Beau Brummell, Beau Nash, Daniel DeFoe, Dean Swift, Captain Morris, J. M. W. Turner, Chevalier D'Eon, Etc |
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... pos sibly have happened that during the entrance into , or approach of some one to , the room where the operation was going on , all the terrible powder was tipped in at once , in order that it should not be seen 14 ECCENTRIC PERSONAGES .
... pos sibly have happened that during the entrance into , or approach of some one to , the room where the operation was going on , all the terrible powder was tipped in at once , in order that it should not be seen 14 ECCENTRIC PERSONAGES .
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... once , in order that it should not be seen in her hands . This , of course , was mere conjecture , but the words and manner of Le Blanc gave it a strong colour of likelihood . Time proved that I had not quite hit upon the truth , but ...
... once , in order that it should not be seen in her hands . This , of course , was mere conjecture , but the words and manner of Le Blanc gave it a strong colour of likelihood . Time proved that I had not quite hit upon the truth , but ...
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... once liked him , had sent her a note requesting a meeting with her . This note was brought to her by Le Blanc . It was immediately torn in pieces before her face , and the girl was told that her master should be made acquainted with her ...
... once liked him , had sent her a note requesting a meeting with her . This note was brought to her by Le Blanc . It was immediately torn in pieces before her face , and the girl was told that her master should be made acquainted with her ...
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... pos sibly have happened that during the entrance into , or approach of some one to , the room where the operation was going on , all the terrible powder was tipped in at once , in order that it should not be seen 14 ECCENTRIC PERSONAGES .
... pos sibly have happened that during the entrance into , or approach of some one to , the room where the operation was going on , all the terrible powder was tipped in at once , in order that it should not be seen 14 ECCENTRIC PERSONAGES .
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... once liked him , had sent her a note requesting a meeting with her . This note was brought to her by Le Blanc . It was immediately torn in pieces before her face , and the girl was told that her master should be made acquainted with her ...
... once liked him , had sent her a note requesting a meeting with her . This note was brought to her by Le Blanc . It was immediately torn in pieces before her face , and the girl was told that her master should be made acquainted with her ...
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Page 119 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 119 - Thus with each gift of nature and of art, And wanting nothing but an honest heart ; Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt; And most contemptible to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways ; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade! A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Page 59 - ... their poor dying mother to beg their bread at his door, and to crave, as if it were an alms, what he is bound under hand and seal, besides the most sacred promises, to supply them with : himself, at the same time, living in a profusion of plenty. It is too much for me.
Page 121 - ... renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy Word, and obediently keep his commandments. I demand therefore, DOST thou, in the Name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?
Page 59 - Sophia, could it be without giving her the grief of seeing her father in tenebris, and under the load of insupportable sorrows. I am sorry I must open my griefs so far as to tell her, it is not the blow I...
Page 59 - It adds to my grief, that I must never see the pledge of your mutual love, my little grandson. Give him my blessing, and may he be to you both your joy in youth, and your comfort in age, and never add a sigh to your sorrow. But, alas ! that is not to be expected. Kiss my dear Sophy once more for me ; and if I must see her no more, tell her this is from a father that loved her above all his comforts, to his last breath.
Page 59 - ... same time living in a profusion of plenty. It is too much for me. Excuse my infirmity ; I can say no more ; my heart is too full. I only ask one thing of you as a dying request. Stand by them when I am gone, and let them not be wronged while he is able to do them right.
Page 79 - ... bad, as you fancy it. Should we ever live together, you would be disappointed both ways ; you would find an easy equality of temper you do not expect, and a thousand faults you do not imagine. You think if you married me, I should be passionately fond of you one month, and of somebody else the next : neither would happen. I can esteem, I can be a friend, but I don't know whether I can love. Expect all that is complaisant and easy, but never what is fond, in me.
Page 79 - I pray you to think better on't, and to keep your crown on your head, then you will keep your own honour and our peace ; but if you lay it down, in my conscience you will endanger all. Continue in your gears, good Madam, and be the fore-horse as long as you live, and we will help you the best we can to bear your burden.
Page 79 - It humbles us to heare you speake of forsaking those who love you as well as we do: can you be better than you are ? You are queen of all these countries, and if you leave this large kingdom, where will you get such another ? If you should do it, (as I hope you won't for all this,) both you and we shall have cause, when it is too late, to be sorry for it; therefore my fellows and I pray you to think better on't, and keep your crown on.