The Lady's Magazine, Or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to Their Use and Amusement, Parte 2Robinson and Roberts, 1791 |
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... pleasure to the writer . But in a contention with our feelings on fuch occafions , we have found it neceffary to confult firft the advantages of our readers at large . It is not by mediocrity that we can re- commend ourselves to their ...
... pleasure to the writer . But in a contention with our feelings on fuch occafions , we have found it neceffary to confult firft the advantages of our readers at large . It is not by mediocrity that we can re- commend ourselves to their ...
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... pleasures and gratifications only expofe themselves to a thoufand disappointments which injure health , bring on a pler etic difpofition , and they may be riotous , but can never be chearful . In them , as in cowards , you perceive a ...
... pleasures and gratifications only expofe themselves to a thoufand disappointments which injure health , bring on a pler etic difpofition , and they may be riotous , but can never be chearful . In them , as in cowards , you perceive a ...
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... pleasure into the country . He was mounted on horfeback , riding a - head of all the carriages , behind him rode the domeftics of count Medem , all founding the horns they were pro- vided with , in order that the town might fee the fool ...
... pleasure into the country . He was mounted on horfeback , riding a - head of all the carriages , behind him rode the domeftics of count Medem , all founding the horns they were pro- vided with , in order that the town might fee the fool ...
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... pleasures and amufements , are apt to forget themselves , to forget what is due to virtue and goodness , and who too frequently become either felfifh , avaricious , and mean , or thoughtless , wanton , and profligate . Men who study the ...
... pleasures and amufements , are apt to forget themselves , to forget what is due to virtue and goodness , and who too frequently become either felfifh , avaricious , and mean , or thoughtless , wanton , and profligate . Men who study the ...
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... pleasures where they make but a forry figure , and which are not always confiftent with virtue or œconomy . they are agreeable in proportion t the quantity of scandal and nonfen : which they retail from houfe t houfe . To all thefe ...
... pleasures where they make but a forry figure , and which are not always confiftent with virtue or œconomy . they are agreeable in proportion t the quantity of scandal and nonfen : which they retail from houfe t houfe . To all thefe ...
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Página 482 - this is not only telling an untruth, but telling it clumsily; for, if that be the case, every one who can look through a microscope will be able to detect him.
Página 481 - His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read; that he had read a great deal in the early part of his life, but having fallen into ill health, he had not been able to read much, compared with others: for instance, he said he had not read much, compared with Dr. Warburton.
Página 482 - The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think, then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end.
Página 591 - ... chance to fee any fcorpions during that night, do they fcruple taking hold of them, trufting to the efficacy of this fancied all-powerful charm. I have frequently feen the man in whofe family I lived, repeat the above prayer, on being defired by his children to bind the fcorpions ; after which the whole family has gone quietly and contentedly to bed, fully perfuaded they could receive no hurt by them. During the fummer feafon, fcorpions appear in great numbers; they are quite black in appearance,...
Página 353 - Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid.
Página 356 - Accustom your children (said he) constantly to this ; if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them ; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.
Página 356 - Nay, this is too much. If Mr. Johnson should forbid me to drink tea, I would comply, as I should feel the restraint only twice a day ; but little variations in narrative must happen a thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching." JOHNSON. "Well, madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Página 483 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
Página 481 - I hope, whether we have more books or not than they have at Cambridge, we shall make as good use of them as they do.
Página 353 - This is a cat, and that is a dog, with four legs and a tail ; see there ! you are much better than a cat or a dog, for you can speak.