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Página 237 - I LIVED very easily in the country : Sir A. is a man of sense, and a scholar, has a good voice, and my lady a better ;* she is perfectly well bred, and desirous to improve her understanding, which is very good, but cultivated too much like a fine lady. She was my pupil there, and severely chid when she read wrong...
Página 244 - I remember when I was a little boy I felt a great fish at the end of my line which I drew up almost on the ground, but it dropped in, and the disappointment vexes me to this very day, and I believe \ it was the type of all my future disappointments.
Página 149 - I find, by the whole cast of your letter, that you are as giddy and as volatile as ever, just the reverse of Mr.
Página 241 - I built a wall five years ago, and when the masons played the knaves, nothing delighted me so much as to stand by while my servants threw down what was amiss. I have likewise seen a monkey overthrow all the dishes and plates in a kitchen, merely for the pleasure of seeing them tumble, and hearing the clatter they made in their fall.
Página 258 - I write to you more negligently, that is more openly, and what all but such as love one another, will call writing worse. I smile to think how Curll would be bit, were our epistles to fall into his hands, and how gloriously they would fall short of every ingenious reader's expectations ? You...
Página 74 - That I would rather be a freeman among slaves, than a slave among freemen. The dignity of my present station damps the pertness of inferior puppies and squires, which, without plenty and ease on your side the .channel, would break my heart in a month.
Página 54 - The fourth he is now latent upon. It is a noble subject ; he pleads the cause of God, I use Seneca's expression, against that famous charge which atheists in all ages have brought, the supposed unequal dispensations of Providence ; a charge which. I cannot heartily forgive your divines for admitting.* You admit it indeed for an extreme good purpose, and you build on this admission the necessity of a future state of rewards and punishments.
Página 2 - ... sometimes God knows where. You are a man of business, and not at leisure for insignificant correspondence. It was I got you the employment of being my lord duke's premier ministre : for his grace having heard how good a manager you were of my revenue, thought you fit to be entrusted with ten talents.
Página 265 - It is now six in the morning ; I recal the time (and am glad it is over) when about this hour I used to be going to bed, surfeited with pleasure or jaded with business ; my head often full of schemes, and my heart as often full of anxiety. Is it a misfortune, think you, that I rise at this hour refreshed, serene, and calm ' that the past and even the present affairs of life stand like objects at a distance from me, where I can keep off the disagreeables so as not to be strongly affected by them,...
Página 168 - I with a new one: it is so well worth taking a journey for, that if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.