The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, المجلد 2 |
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الصفحة 95
... for nothing can betray more the conscious baseness of a man who believes he
is maintaining a bad cause , than that common artifice of crafty and venal
advocates , of attacking the character of their opponent , when they cannot
controvert ...
... for nothing can betray more the conscious baseness of a man who believes he
is maintaining a bad cause , than that common artifice of crafty and venal
advocates , of attacking the character of their opponent , when they cannot
controvert ...
الصفحة 161
Their common dimensions are those of a pretty goodsized bed - room , and may
be from 12 to 15 feet by 10 or 12 . If designed for two , they may be still larger ; or
this enlargement may be produced by a considerable recess on one side .
Their common dimensions are those of a pretty goodsized bed - room , and may
be from 12 to 15 feet by 10 or 12 . If designed for two , they may be still larger ; or
this enlargement may be produced by a considerable recess on one side .
الصفحة 250
... in order to divest them of that common prejudice , that in proportion as the
understanding increases in the knowledge of science and learning , it becomes
more grave and consequently less agreeable . I am the person whom yoil wish to
see ...
... in order to divest them of that common prejudice , that in proportion as the
understanding increases in the knowledge of science and learning , it becomes
more grave and consequently less agreeable . I am the person whom yoil wish to
see ...
الصفحة 256
COMEDY is a representation of common life ; its end is to shew the faults of
particular characters on the stage , and to correct the disorder of the people by
the fear of ridicule . The grand object of Comedy is to shew man ridicule ; to
remind him ...
COMEDY is a representation of common life ; its end is to shew the faults of
particular characters on the stage , and to correct the disorder of the people by
the fear of ridicule . The grand object of Comedy is to shew man ridicule ; to
remind him ...
الصفحة 260
It was a common practice to carry table - books to the theatre , and either from
curiosity , or enmity to the author , or some other motive , to write down passages
of the play that was represented ; and there is reason to believe that the imperfect
...
It was a common practice to carry table - books to the theatre , and either from
curiosity , or enmity to the author , or some other motive , to write down passages
of the play that was represented ; and there is reason to believe that the imperfect
...
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الصفحة 155 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
الصفحة 25 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
الصفحة 43 - To be the true Church militant; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox, By apostolic blows and knocks; Call fire, and sword, and desolation, A godly, thorough reformation. Which always must be carried on, And still be doing, never done; As if religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended...
الصفحة 66 - ... around him : he thought only of his subject : his genius warmed and kindled as he went on. He darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and conviction.
الصفحة 99 - Every body knows that ants come out of their holes in the day-time, and expose to the sun the corn which they keep under ground in the night : those who have seen ant-hillocks, have easily perceived those small heaps of corn about their nests. What surprised me at first was, that my ants never brought out their corn, but in the night when the moon did shine...
الصفحة 39 - They both complimented me, in the highest terms, on my essay, which, they said, was a book they always kept by them; and the king said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. 'I never stole a book but one,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours (speaking to me) ; I stole it from the queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 98 - ... and from the walls, which, together with the earth formerly imbibed with water, made a kind of a dry and barren soil. That place lying to the south, and out of the...
الصفحة 58 - Essay, which they said was a book they always kept by them : and the King said he had one copy of it at Kew, and another in town, and immediately went and took it down from a shelf. I found it was the second edition. ' I never stole a book but once,' said his Majesty, ' and that was yours,' (speaking to me) : ' I stole it from the Queen, to give it to Lord Hertford to read.
الصفحة 61 - Pilkington having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish.
الصفحة 99 - I did not know it by experience, is, that those ants knew, some days after, that they had nothing to fear, and began to lay out their corn in the sun. However, I perceived...