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That Palmer is a most surprising genius , and Holland likely to do well in a
particular cast of character . We shall have them giving Shuter instructions to
amuse us by rule , and deploring over the ruins of desolated majesty at Covent -
Garden .
That Palmer is a most surprising genius , and Holland likely to do well in a
particular cast of character . We shall have them giving Shuter instructions to
amuse us by rule , and deploring over the ruins of desolated majesty at Covent -
Garden .
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When seated we continued silent for some time , employed in very different
speculations . I regarded the whole company , now passing in review before me ,
as drawn out merely for my amusement . For my entertainment the beauty had ...
When seated we continued silent for some time , employed in very different
speculations . I regarded the whole company , now passing in review before me ,
as drawn out merely for my amusement . For my entertainment the beauty had ...
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As other journals serve to amuse the learned , or what is more often the case , to
make them quarrel , while they only ... an academy which declines every thing
which only terminates in amusement , erudition , or curiosity ; and admits only of ...
As other journals serve to amuse the learned , or what is more often the case , to
make them quarrel , while they only ... an academy which declines every thing
which only terminates in amusement , erudition , or curiosity ; and admits only of ...
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w in school , by this means it would in college become their amusement . In
several of the machines now in use , there would be ample field both for
instruction and amusement ; the different sorts of the phosphorus , the artificial
pyrites ...
w in school , by this means it would in college become their amusement . In
several of the machines now in use , there would be ample field both for
instruction and amusement ; the different sorts of the phosphorus , the artificial
pyrites ...
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The rudiments of every language , therefore , must be given as a task , not as an
amusement . Attempting to deceive children into instruction of this kind is only
deceiving ourselves , and I know no passion capable of conquering a child ' s ...
The rudiments of every language , therefore , must be given as a task , not as an
amusement . Attempting to deceive children into instruction of this kind is only
deceiving ourselves , and I know no passion capable of conquering a child ' s ...
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Page 70 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Page 71 - ... to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose : the manner then is to wait patiently till, by ineffectual and impotent struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then...
Page 76 - What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. " There will come a time, when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.
Page 69 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Page 70 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb.
Page 71 - I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Page 42 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Page 78 - Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Page 72 - The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Page 76 - To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.
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| Title | Select British Classics, Volume 3 Select British Classics |
| Publisher | J. Conrad, 1804 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 2 Nov 2006 |
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