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... amusement to him who is unable to find it for himself . It is naturally indifferent to this race of men what entertainment they receive , so they are but entertained . They catch , with equal eagerness , at a moral lecture , or the ...
... amusement to him who is unable to find it for himself . It is naturally indifferent to this race of men what entertainment they receive , so they are but entertained . They catch , with equal eagerness , at a moral lecture , or the ...
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... amusements of the Idler is to read the works of those minute historians the wri- ters of news , who , though contemptuously overlooked by the composers of bulky volumes , are yet necessa- ry in a nation where much wealth produces much ...
... amusements of the Idler is to read the works of those minute historians the wri- ters of news , who , though contemptuously overlooked by the composers of bulky volumes , are yet necessa- ry in a nation where much wealth produces much ...
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... and another a day ; one conceals the robbery by hurrying us into business , another by lulling us with amusement ; the depredation is conti nued through a thousand vicissitudes of tumult and tranquillity , 44 THE IDLER . Robbery of Time,
... and another a day ; one conceals the robbery by hurrying us into business , another by lulling us with amusement ; the depredation is conti nued through a thousand vicissitudes of tumult and tranquillity , 44 THE IDLER . Robbery of Time,
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... amusement . Sometimes , indeed , she will take a needle , but as she always works at the door , or in the middle of the shop , she has so many interruptions , that she is longer hemming a towel , or darning a stocking , than I am in ...
... amusement . Sometimes , indeed , she will take a needle , but as she always works at the door , or in the middle of the shop , she has so many interruptions , that she is longer hemming a towel , or darning a stocking , than I am in ...
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... amusement is to nail dogs to tables and open them alive ; to try how long life may be continued in various degrees of mutilation , or with the excision or laceration of the vital parts ; to exa- mine whether burning irons are felt more ...
... amusement is to nail dogs to tables and open them alive ; to try how long life may be continued in various degrees of mutilation , or with the excision or laceration of the vital parts ; to exa- mine whether burning irons are felt more ...
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amusement APRIL 29 believe Betty Broom bracelet called censure common commonly considered curiosity customers danger daugh delight desire diligence dinner Ditto dread Drugget endeavour enemies enquiry epithalamium evil expected eyes favour fear filled folly Friseur girls gout gratified hand happiness hear honour hope human idleness Idler imagine impa innu Isle of Wight Islington King of Prussia knowledge labour lady learned less lest live look lost Louisbourg mankind marriage ment mind Minorca misery mistress Mohair morning nation nature necessary neral never night obliged once opinion pain Papist passed Peterhouse pleased pleasure praise proper reason resolved riety SATURDAY scarcely seldom servant shew siderable sleep soldiers sometimes specta suffer sure talk tell ther thing thought thousand tion told truth ture virtue weary wife wish write YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Popular passages
Page 141 - Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. And let him, who purposes his own happiness, reflect, that while he forms his purpose the day rolls on, and ' the night cometh, when no man can work !
Page 96 - No species of literary men has lately been so much multiplied as the writers of news. Not many years ago the nation was content with one Gazette; but now we have not only in the metropolis papers for every morning and every evening, but almost every large town has its weekly historian, who regularly circulates his periodical intelligence...
Page 54 - It is not without reluctance that I offend the sensibility of the tender mind with images like these. If such cruelties were not practised, it were to be desired that they should not be conceived; but, since they are published every day with ostentation, let me be allowed once to mention them, since I mention them with abhorrence.
Page 129 - Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.
Page 141 - The traveller visits in age those countries through which he rambled in his youth, and hopes for merriment at the old place. The man of business, wearied with unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young.
Page 46 - ... to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain ; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements ; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances ; to the usurer, who compares the different funds ; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking.
Page 146 - is chiefly exerted in historical pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.
Page 87 - ... difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world ; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves ; we resolve to do right, we hope to keep our resolutions, we declare them to confirm our own hope, and fix our own inconstancy by calling witnesses of our actions; but at last habit prevails, and those whom we invited to our triumph, laugh at...
Page 36 - This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance every day is bright, and every hour is propitious to diligence.
Page 62 - THERE is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood^ every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave, and seek prey only for himself.