The Projector: A Collection of Essays, in the Manner of the Spectator, Originally Published Monthly, from Jan. 1802 to Nov. 1809, 第 2 卷Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817 |
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... reading , but have very extensive acquaintance . Others think that it will not appear at one time , but periodi- cally , in folio volumes , of about a thousand pages each , to be published monthly , by which means the whole might ...
... reading , but have very extensive acquaintance . Others think that it will not appear at one time , but periodi- cally , in folio volumes , of about a thousand pages each , to be published monthly , by which means the whole might ...
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... readers against supposing that I am writing the puff preliminary for another's work , and particularly against ex- pecting that any part of reveries will be part of the author's plan to whom I allude . If , how- ever , the learned ...
... readers against supposing that I am writing the puff preliminary for another's work , and particularly against ex- pecting that any part of reveries will be part of the author's plan to whom I allude . If , how- ever , the learned ...
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... readers . All we certainly know is , that the proportions of rogue and fool are so nicely adjusted in some men , and so intimately mixed , and confounded , as to ren- der it almost impossible to say which is the pre- dominant quality ...
... readers . All we certainly know is , that the proportions of rogue and fool are so nicely adjusted in some men , and so intimately mixed , and confounded , as to ren- der it almost impossible to say which is the pre- dominant quality ...
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... readers may , perhaps , recollect that that paper was written in consequence of a visit to the splendid mansion of a noble Countess , de- ceased , whose furniture was then to be disposed by auction ; and some of the sentiments ven ...
... readers may , perhaps , recollect that that paper was written in consequence of a visit to the splendid mansion of a noble Countess , de- ceased , whose furniture was then to be disposed by auction ; and some of the sentiments ven ...
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... reading only , it was impossible to distinguish animals from vegetables , much less one kind of animal from another . But that my readers in the country , who dine in their vernacular language , and are not ashamed of a few ...
... reading only , it was impossible to distinguish animals from vegetables , much less one kind of animal from another . But that my readers in the country , who dine in their vernacular language , and are not ashamed of a few ...
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第 86 頁 - Of envied life; though only few possess Patrician treasures or imperial state; Yet Nature's care, to all her children just, With richer treasures and an ampler state, Endows at large whatever happy man Will deign to use them.
第 302 頁 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
第 36 頁 - So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it ; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
第 115 頁 - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
第 29 頁 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
第 85 頁 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
第 386 頁 - G — -d ; fielfi ; murder ;fire, &.c. all which produce, I will do them the justice to say, a very fine effect in genteel compayy ; overturning tables and chairs, spilling boiling water, bruising the lap-dop, or cat, and perhaps throwing a lighted candle on the train of a muslin gown : the father swears, the mother faints, the daughters are in fits, and the company jump about ; and in a few minutes, it is unanimously agreed, that there was nothing the matter, but they were so frightened ! Now, Sir,...
第 387 頁 - ... of ushers, teachers, nurses, and servants roused from their four-pair-of-stairs beds, and armed with flat candlesticks, pokers, and pewter pots. They may also, while they preserve the privilege of screaming in full force, hint to their pupils, that it would be as well, if violent outcries, and sentimental timidities, were confined to domestic circles, or ladies
第 98 頁 - QUI fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem Seu ratio dederit seu fors objecerit ilia Contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes ? " O fortunati mercatores !" gravis annis Miles ait multo jam fractus membra labore.
第 171 頁 - Inspicere tanquam in speculum in vitas omnium Jubeo, atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi. Lat. TERENCE. — "The lives of men should be regarded as a mirror, from which we may take an example and a rule of conduct for ourselves.