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Page 196
... suppose , considered as forfeited by his absence , ( though he was not suffered to con- tinue upon it ) , was given to a clergyman , of whom he says , that he would become a stage better than a pulpit ; a censure which I can neither ...
... suppose , considered as forfeited by his absence , ( though he was not suffered to con- tinue upon it ) , was given to a clergyman , of whom he says , that he would become a stage better than a pulpit ; a censure which I can neither ...
Page 216
... suppose very unjustly , of opening letters to detect them . He was treated with great harshness and severity , but , declining their questions , by pleading his oath of secrecy , was at last dismissed . And it must be recorded to his ...
... suppose very unjustly , of opening letters to detect them . He was treated with great harshness and severity , but , declining their questions , by pleading his oath of secrecy , was at last dismissed . And it must be recorded to his ...
Page 278
... suppose , that exuberant applause with which every man repays the grant of perusing a manu- script , he was not very diligent to obstruct his own praise by recalling his papers , but suffered them to wander from hand to hand , till at ...
... suppose , that exuberant applause with which every man repays the grant of perusing a manu- script , he was not very diligent to obstruct his own praise by recalling his papers , but suffered them to wander from hand to hand , till at ...
Page 294
... suppose to be , if rightly printed , W. D. or Sir William Dugdale , one of Browne's corres- pondents . These are declared by Browne , in con- currence , I think , with all other antiquaries , to be for the most part funeral monuments ...
... suppose to be , if rightly printed , W. D. or Sir William Dugdale , one of Browne's corres- pondents . These are declared by Browne , in con- currence , I think , with all other antiquaries , to be for the most part funeral monuments ...
Page 350
... suppose that what I took the liberty of suggesting was concerted with you ? He does not know how much I revolve his affairs , and how honestly I desire his prosperity . I hope he has let the hint take some hold of his mind . Your ...
... suppose that what I took the liberty of suggesting was concerted with you ? He does not know how much I revolve his affairs , and how honestly I desire his prosperity . I hope he has let the hint take some hold of his mind . Your ...
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Page 338 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness, by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look, with pleasure, upon every act of virtue, to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Page 377 - We had a passage of about twelve miles to the point where resided, having come from his seat in the middle of the island to a small house on the shore, as we believe, that he might with less reproach entertain us meanly. If he aspired to meanness, his retrograde ambition was completely gratified, but he did not succeed equally in escaping reproach. He had no cook, nor I suppose much provision, nor had the lady the common decencies of her tea-table: we picked up our sugar with our fingers. Boswell...
Page 435 - I am sitting down in no cheerful solitude to write a narrative which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will perhaps pass over now with the careless glance of frigid indifference. For this diminution of regard however, I know not whether I ought to blame you, who may have reasons which I cannot know, and I do not blame myself, who have for a great part of human life done you what good I could, and have never done you evil.
Page 280 - There are many things delivered rhetorically, many expressions therein merely tropical, and as they best illustrate my intention ; and therefore also there are many things to be taken in a soft and flexible sense, and not to be called unto the rigid test of reason.
Page 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Page 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 287 - Happy are they which live not in that disadvantage of time, when men could say little for futurity, but from reason...
Page 287 - In 1658 the discovery of some ancient urns in Norfolk gave him occasion to write Hydriotaphia, Urn-burial, or a Discourse of sepulchral Urns, in which he treats with his usual learning on the funeral rites of the ancient nations ; exhibits their various treatment of the dead ; and examines the substances found in his Norfolcian urns.
Page 301 - His memory, though not so eminent as that of Seneca or Scaliger, was capacious and tenacious, insomuch as he remembered all that was remarkable in any book that he had read...