A sentimental journey France and Italy by L. Sterne. Also A tale of a tub by J. Swift1882 |
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... matter better in -You have been in France ? said my gentleman , turning quick upon me , with the most civil triumph in the world.Strange ! quoth I , debating the matter with myself , That one - and - twenty miles sailing , for ' tis ...
... matter better in -You have been in France ? said my gentleman , turning quick upon me , with the most civil triumph in the world.Strange ! quoth I , debating the matter with myself , That one - and - twenty miles sailing , for ' tis ...
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... matters ; and the true point of pity is , as they can be earned in the world with so little industry , that your order should wish to procure them by pressing upon a fund which is the property of the lame , the blind , the aged , and ...
... matters ; and the true point of pity is , as they can be earned in the world with so little industry , that your order should wish to procure them by pressing upon a fund which is the property of the lame , the blind , the aged , and ...
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... matter , ' tis an essay upon human nature ; —I get my labour for my pains , - ' tis enough ; -the pleasure of the experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake , and laid the gross to sleep . I pity the man who can ...
... matter , ' tis an essay upon human nature ; —I get my labour for my pains , - ' tis enough ; -the pleasure of the experiment has kept my senses and the best part of my blood awake , and laid the gross to sleep . I pity the man who can ...
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... matter , he called in La Fleur , which was the name of the young man he had spoke of , -saying only first , That as for his talents he would presume to say nothing— Monsieur was the best judge what would suit him ; but for the fidelity ...
... matter , he called in La Fleur , which was the name of the young man he had spoke of , -saying only first , That as for his talents he would presume to say nothing— Monsieur was the best judge what would suit him ; but for the fidelity ...
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... matter to compound at the door , before you can get into your chaise , and that is , with the sons and daughters of poverty , who surround you . Let no man say , " Let them go to the Devil ! " - ' tis a cruel journey to send a few miser ...
... matter to compound at the door , before you can get into your chaise , and that is , with the sons and daughters of poverty , who surround you . Let no man say , " Let them go to the Devil ! " - ' tis a cruel journey to send a few miser ...
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Page 344 - Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse.
Page 112 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change.
Page 255 - What is that which some call land, but a fine coat faced with green ? or the sea, but a waistcoat of...
Page 166 - Eternal fountain of our feeling! — 'tis here I trace thee, — and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me;" — not that. in some sad and sickening moments, " my soul shrinks back upon Herself, and startles at destruction...
Page 316 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Page 260 - ... and, according to the laudable custom, gave rise to that fashion. Upon which the brothers, consulting their father's will, to their great astonishment, found these words : Item, I charge and command my said three sons to wear no sort of silver fringe upon or about their said coats, &c., with a penalty, in case of disobedience, too long here to insert.
Page 167 - Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy "divinity which stirs within me" not, that in some sad and sickening moments, "my soul shrinks back upon herself, and startles at destruction" mere pomp of words! but that I feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond myself all comes from thee, great great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remotest desert of thy creation...
Page 114 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction.
Page 255 - It is true, indeed, that these animals, which are vulgarly called suits of clothes or dresses, do according to certain compositions receive different appellations. If one of them be trimmed up with a gold chain, and a red gown, and a white rod, and a great horse, it is called a...
Page 337 - Epicurus modestly hoped that one time or other, a certain fortuitous concourse of all men's opinions, after perpetual justlings, the sharp with the smooth, the light and the heavy, the round and the square, would, by certain clinamina, unite in the notions of atoms and void, as these did in the originals of all things. Cartesius reckoned to see, before he died, the sentiments of all philosophers, like so many lesser stars in his romantick system, wrapped and drawn within his own vortex.