The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Bind 4H. Lintot, 1754 |
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... alfo , that at my first entring upon this Work , a certain uncommon Way of Thinking , and a Turn in Converfation peculiar to that agreeable Gentleman , rendered his Company very advantageous to one whofe Imagination was to be ...
... alfo , that at my first entring upon this Work , a certain uncommon Way of Thinking , and a Turn in Converfation peculiar to that agreeable Gentleman , rendered his Company very advantageous to one whofe Imagination was to be ...
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... alfo a great deal of Efteem to which he has in himself no Pretenfions . Were it otherwife , I am fure no one would offer to put a Law Cafe to me : But because I am an Adept in Phyfick and Aftrology , they will needs perfwade me that I ...
... alfo a great deal of Efteem to which he has in himself no Pretenfions . Were it otherwife , I am fure no one would offer to put a Law Cafe to me : But because I am an Adept in Phyfick and Aftrology , they will needs perfwade me that I ...
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... alfo wonderfully adverbial in his Expreffions , and breaks off with a Perhaps and a Nod of the Head upon Matters of the most indifferent Nature . It is a mighty Practice with Men of this Genius to avoid frequent Ap- pearance in Publick ...
... alfo wonderfully adverbial in his Expreffions , and breaks off with a Perhaps and a Nod of the Head upon Matters of the most indifferent Nature . It is a mighty Practice with Men of this Genius to avoid frequent Ap- pearance in Publick ...
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... alfo , I am not fo much hurt as to ftifle any Part of his fond Letter . I SIR , Am afraid there is fomething in the Sufpicions of fome People , that you begin to be short of Matter for your Lucubrations . Though feveral of them now and ...
... alfo , I am not fo much hurt as to ftifle any Part of his fond Letter . I SIR , Am afraid there is fomething in the Sufpicions of fome People , that you begin to be short of Matter for your Lucubrations . Though feveral of them now and ...
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... alfo to the very Garrets huddled together , four at leaft at a Cafement . Add to this , that by an exact Calcu- lation of all that have come to Town by Stage Coach or Waggon for this Twelvemonth laft , three Times in four the treated ...
... alfo to the very Garrets huddled together , four at leaft at a Cafement . Add to this , that by an exact Calcu- lation of all that have come to Town by Stage Coach or Waggon for this Twelvemonth laft , three Times in four the treated ...
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Side 109 - ... over ; and as they were passing by me into the garden, I asked them to let me be one of their company. The gentleman of the house told me, ' if I delighted in flowers, it would be worth my while ; for that he believed he could show me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.
Side 287 - And now when I thought most of peace and honour, Thy hand is heavy upon me, and hath humbled me according to Thy former loving-kindness, keeping me still in Thy fatherly school, not as a bastard, but as a child. Just are Thy judgments upon me for my sins, which are more in number than the sands of the sea, but have no proportion to Thy mercies; for what are the sands of the sea ? Earth, heavens, and all these are nothing to Thy mercies.
Side 231 - The rest of the jury, upon the delivery of the sword to their foreman, drew all of them together as one man, and saluted the bench with such an air as signified the most resigned submission to those who commanded them, and the greatest magnanimity to execute what they should command.
Side 116 - I have made some necessary variations both in the tube and the fluid it contains. In the first place I ordered a tube to be cast in a planetary hour, and took care to seal it hermetically, when the Sun was in conjunction with Saturn. I then took the proper precautions about the fluid, which is a compound of two...
Side 104 - I have seen the most amiable become the most deformed, and she that appeared one of the Graces immediately turned into one of the Furies. I humbly conceive the great cause of this evil may proceed from a false notion the ladies have of what we call a modest woman.
Side 287 - Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Side 119 - I have taken my text for this discourse : we should be careful not to overshoot ourselves in the pursuits even of virtue. Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.
Side 116 - The church thermometer, which I am now to treat of, is supposed to have been invented in the reign of Henry the Eighth, about the time when that religious Prince put some to death for owning the Pope's supremacy, and others for denying transubstantiation. I do not find, however, any great use made of this instrument...
Side 184 - Nobody ever knew what this meant ; but the green and red dragon so amused the people, that the doctor lived very comfortably upon them. About the same time there was pasted a very hard word upon every corner of the streets. This, to the best of my remembrance, was...