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... fancy your wife or daughter , if you had any , in such circumstances , and what treatment you would then think due to such dragoons . One of them was called a Captain , and entertained us with nothing but filthy stupid questions , or ...
... fancy your wife or daughter , if you had any , in such circumstances , and what treatment you would then think due to such dragoons . One of them was called a Captain , and entertained us with nothing but filthy stupid questions , or ...
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... counte- nance , and consequently would not be put out of it , presume to travel after such a day without one of them in their pockets . I fancy a smart Spectator upon this subject would serve for such a padlock ; 90 N ° 533 . SPECTATOR .
... counte- nance , and consequently would not be put out of it , presume to travel after such a day without one of them in their pockets . I fancy a smart Spectator upon this subject would serve for such a padlock ; 90 N ° 533 . SPECTATOR .
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... It happens likewise unluckily , that one hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead . We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular 96 N ° 535 . SPECTATOR .
... It happens likewise unluckily , that one hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead . We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular 96 N ° 535 . SPECTATOR .
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... fancy he received them from his correspondents . Such are those from the valetudi- narian ; the inspector of the sign - posts ; the master of the fan - exercise ; with that of the hooped petti- coat ; that of Nicholas Hart the annual ...
... fancy he received them from his correspondents . Such are those from the valetudi- narian ; the inspector of the sign - posts ; the master of the fan - exercise ; with that of the hooped petti- coat ; that of Nicholas Hart the annual ...
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... fancy with himself , at some time or other , that if his life were to begin again he could fill it up better . The mind is most provoked to cast on itself this ingenuous reproach , when the examples of such men are presented to it as ...
... fancy with himself , at some time or other , that if his life were to begin again he could fill it up better . The mind is most provoked to cast on itself this ingenuous reproach , when the examples of such men are presented to it as ...
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Page 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep : perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Page 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Page 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Page 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Page 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Page 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.