The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Volume 1J.N. and sold by E. Nutt, 1710 - Great Britain |
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Page iii
... Letter of Intelligence , con- fifting of fuch Parts as might gratify the Curiofity of Perfons of all Condi- tions , and of each Sex . But a Work of this Nature requiring Time to grow into the Notice of the World , it hap- pened very ...
... Letter of Intelligence , con- fifting of fuch Parts as might gratify the Curiofity of Perfons of all Condi- tions , and of each Sex . But a Work of this Nature requiring Time to grow into the Notice of the World , it hap- pened very ...
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... Manner wholly new and unknown to the Antient Greeks and Romans , wherein he is but faintly imitated in the Tranflations of the Modern Italian Opera's . St. St. James's Coffee - house , April 11 . Letters 6 N ° 1 . The Tatler .
... Manner wholly new and unknown to the Antient Greeks and Romans , wherein he is but faintly imitated in the Tranflations of the Modern Italian Opera's . St. St. James's Coffee - house , April 11 . Letters 6 N ° 1 . The Tatler .
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... Letters , dated Hague , A- pril 19. N.S. which fay , a Defign of bringing Part of our Troops into the Field at the latter End of this Month , is now alter'd to a Refolu- tion of marching towards the Camp about the 20th of the next ...
... Letters , dated Hague , A- pril 19. N.S. which fay , a Defign of bringing Part of our Troops into the Field at the latter End of this Month , is now alter'd to a Refolu- tion of marching towards the Camp about the 20th of the next ...
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... Letters of the 17th from Ghent , which give an Ac- count , that the Enemy had form'd a Design to furprize two Battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft ; but those Battalions receiv'd Advice of their March , and retir'd to Dendermond ...
... Letters of the 17th from Ghent , which give an Ac- count , that the Enemy had form'd a Design to furprize two Battalions of the Allies which lay at Aloft ; but those Battalions receiv'd Advice of their March , and retir'd to Dendermond ...
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... Letters from Venice fay , The Disappoint- ment of their Expectation to fee his Danish Majesty , has very much difquieted the Court of Rome . Our laft Advices from Germany in- form us , That the Minister of Hanover has urg'd the Council ...
... Letters from Venice fay , The Disappoint- ment of their Expectation to fee his Danish Majesty , has very much difquieted the Court of Rome . Our laft Advices from Germany in- form us , That the Minister of Hanover has urg'd the Council ...
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Page 294 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 295 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 357 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed), Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Page 251 - do you think my uncle takes any notice of such a dull rogue as you are?" Mr. William .goes on, " He is the most stupid of all my mother's children: he knows nothing of his book : when he should mind that, he is hiding or hoarding his taws and marbles, or laying up farthings. His way of thinking is...
Page 289 - To my knowledge of this very hat it may be added, that the covering of straw was never used among the Jews, since it was demanded of them to make bricks without it. Therefore this is really nothing but, under the specious pretence of learning and antiquities, to impose upon the world.
Page 269 - His friend advances, and so on, until they had all saluted her. By this means the poor girl was in the middle of the crowd of these fellows, at a loss what to do, without courage to pass through them ; and the Platonics, at several peep-holes...
Page 371 - ... to benevolence, and tend to a certain manner of being or appearing equal to the rest of the company ; for conversation is composed of an assembly of men, as they are men, and not as they are distinguished by fortune: therefore he who brings his quality with him into conversation, should always pay the reckoning ; for he came to receive homage, and not to meet his friends.
Page 250 - I took three lads, who are under my guardianship, a-rambling, in a hackney-coach, to show them the town; as the lions, the tombs, Bedlam, and the other places which are entertainments to raw minds because they strike forcibly on the fancy.
Page 8 - I have in another place, and in a paper by itself, sufficiently convinced this man that he is dead, and if he has any shame, I don't doubt but that by this time he owns it to all his acquaintance : for though the legs and arms, and whole body of that man may still appear and perform their animal functions ; yet since, as I have elsewhere observed, his art is gone, the man is gone.
Page 159 - There is another sort of gentlemen whom I am much more concerned for, and that is the ingenious fraternity of which I have the honour to be an unworthy member; I mean the news-writers of Great Britain, whether 'Postmen