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501 V | to this day. There is a clause, however, in the oath which
502 XIII | required, and the matter is cleared up at once. But it is otherwise
503 XI | but we shall leave the clearing up of this point of history
504 XVII | colure of the equinoxes.~Clemens Alexandrinus informs us,
505 VII | Clark, Mr. Locke, Mr. Le Clerc, etc., the greatest philosophers,
506 III | for the Church of England clergyman who had been chiefly instrumental
507 Int | but abundant technical cleverness. For the stage he was the
508 XXI | prefer; And we have modern cloistered coxcombs, who Retire to
509 XVIII| inflated, too unnatural, too closely copied from the Hebrew writers,
510 XIII | systematic spirit which throws a cloud over the minds of the greatest
511 VII | present age being quite cloyed with disputes and sects.
512 XVII | are obliged to him for the clue, by whose assistance we
513 XII | cast with herself from what coast this blazing star should
514 XVIII| the Roman shoemakers and cobblers, who are introduced in the
515 XVIII| shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There '
516 XIII | philosopher after having coined base money) declared that
517 VII | But people are now so very cold with respect to all things
518 XXIV | present the public with a collection of transactions that abound
519 Int | under the Jesuits in the College Louis-le-Grand. He began
520 XXI | Those reverend bedlams, colleges, and schools; Borne on whose
521 XXIV | writings; whereas Chapelain, Colletet, Cassaigne, Faret, Perrin,
522 XIII | Hobbes, the Lord Shaftesbury, Collins, nor Toland lighted up the
523 V | youngsters made bishops or colonels immediately upon their laying
524 IV | merchants came and peopled this colony. The natives of the country,
525 XVI | light is a composition of coloured rays, which, being united,
526 XXI | loix, Ce roi des animaux, combien a-t'il de rois?"~"Yet, pleased
527 XVI | a colour.~From all these combinations he discovers the proportion
528 XIII | we; they have memory, and combine certain ideas. In case it
529 XVIII| Demain, demain, dit-on, va combler tous nos voeus. Demain vient,
530 XX | ceremonie~"L'extravagante comedie Que souvent l'Inquisition
531 I | repentance; but He that cometh after me is mightier that
532 XIX | captain), who is the most comical character that was ever
533 XX | that the monarch needs but command and he is immediately obeyed.
534 I | Christians. Our God, who has commanded us to love our enemies,
535 XXII | humour. Whoever sets up for a commentator of smart sayings and repartees
536 XVIII| idle rhapsodies of those commentators; and I will join in opinion
537 XVII | such a historian would commit a great error should he
538 VIII | time, is restrained from committing evil; where the nobles are
539 XIX | thick, this castle would be commodious enough. Some wag, in an
540 IX | estates of a great many commoners in England amounts to two
541 V | country have with the ladies, commonly oblige a bishop to confine
542 XI | bassa in Constantinople but communicates the small-pox to his children
543 XXI | and take up the rule and compass on this occasion; my only
544 XXIV | to dispute the seat with competitors who are so much the more
545 XXI | bienheureux fanatiques, Compilez bien l'amas de vos riens
546 XVIII| Cassius. You will undoubtedly complain, that those who have hitherto
547 XXI | who, when the same monarch complained that his masters paid less
548 XVIII| Addison had the effeminate complaisance to soften the severity of
549 XIII | examined our simple and complex ideas; having traced the
550 I | owned it was a hale, ruddy complexioned old man, who had never been
551 I | cheerfully to baptism, purely in compliance with thy weakness, for we
552 XX | astuce, et pauvrete, Grands complimens, peu de bonte Et beaucoup
553 XIV | be making him too great a compliment if we affirm that he was
554 XIV | nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites."~Virgil, Eclog. III.~"'
555 IX | All these new peers who compose the Higher House receive
556 XVI | the prism, that light is a composition of coloured rays, which,
557 XVI | method of distinguishing compound colours from such as are
558 XV | mind, is bold enough to compute the quantity of matter contained
559 XIV | This imagination could not conceal itself even in his philosophical
560 III | were always a few Quakers concealed in the world, who carefully
561 XXI | and sought for points and conceits instead of sentiments. Bristol
562 XIII | affirming nothing but what it conceives clearly, and conscious of
563 XVI | universe, so far are we from conceiving what matter is. Having thus
564 XIX | do not enough raise our concern. The English comedy affects
565 II | considerable particulars I learned concerning the doctrine of the Quakers.
566 VI | Church. No operas, plays, or concerts are allowed in London on
567 XIII | also to doubt. Instead of concluding at once what we know not,
568 XV | computation did not agree with the conclusions which Sir Isaac intended
569 XXI | erreurs, il est de ces devots Condamne par eux memes a l'ennui
570 III | surely great will be thy condemnation.~"Against which snare, as
571 XIV | the time that the French condemned the only propositions of
572 XI | Courayer. It is she who condenscended to attempt a reconciliation
573 XIX | her love, will not even condescend to look upon her, but confides
574 IV | This princess had several conferences with them in her palace,
575 XIII | Bernard, as Father Mabillon confesses, taught that the soul after
576 XIII | now according to your own confession God does nothing in vain;
577 XIX | is so credulous as to be confident she is Penelope, and his
578 III | confinement more strongly confirmed in the principles they had
579 XVII | antiquity which are blended and confounded with history, and fix an
580 XV | it. He bids him beware of confounding this name with what the
581 VIII | Mazarin's head, and afterwards congratulated him in a public manner.
582 XXIII| Warden of the Royal Mint. Mr. Congrefe has a considerable employment.
583 II | stupid, but greatly edified, congregation were separated, I asked
584 IV | England clergy found their congregations dwindle away, daily; and
585 VIII | prevent their neighbours from conquering. They are not only jealous
586 VIII | splendid folly of making conquests, but would only prevent
587 V | whether Bishop Parker was consecrated (as it is pretended) in
588 IX | venerable part of mankind, consisting of those who study the laws
589 XII | but are never allowed the consolation to see them."~You know that
590 XVIII| the Marquis of Bedemar's conspiracy. Antonio, the super-annuated
591 XVI | the density of the small constituent particles of which a body
592 XIV | farther, that extension alone constitutes matter, but Sir Isaac adds
593 XI | enjoys the most vigorous constitution, and is the healthiest man
594 XVI | error which arises from the construction and position of the glass
595 VII | emperor of the reality of consubstantiation, put his hand under the
596 XIII | above them. Above all, he consults himself; the being conscious
597 XVIII| flesh is heir to! 'T is a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To
598 XV | who computed a degree to contain but sixty English miles,
599 VII | He only published a work containing all the testimonies of the
600 XVII | every sign of the zodiac contains thirty degrees. In Chiron'
601 VII | intelligible, but pretty much contemned, on the truth of the Christian
602 XVIII| nation, was pretty nearly contemporary with Lope de Vega, and he
603 X | State, a brother of his was content to be a City merchant; and
604 I | I had more sense than to contest with him, since there is
605 I | prostituted in the miserable contests betwixt man and man. When
606 XXIV | the Royal Society are at a continual, though indeed small expense.
607 XXI | poets, and therefore I shall continue in the same view.~The celebrated
608 IX | William III.~The land-tax continues still upon the same foot,
609 XV | the reason why the muscles contract? The cause of the elasticity
610 XV | the arm is owing to the contraction of the muscles, taught mankind
611 XIV | solidity to it.~How furiously contradictory are these opinions!~"Non
612 X | Surat and Grand Cairo, and contributes to the felicity of the world.~~
613 Int | and "Merope." His chief contribution in this field was the development
614 XIX | comedy affects us, and the contrivance of the plot is very ingenious,
615 XIII | is still the subject of controversy; which, however, must be
616 XVIII| s wrong, the poor man's contumely, The pangs of despised love,
617 XXIII| a spectacle exhibited in convents and monasteries; that we
618 XX | courtiers particularly were conversant in them, although indolence,
619 IV | long) purely to see and converse with him. Both resolved
620 XIII | the celestial regions, but converses with Christ's human nature
621 V | privileges. The lower House of Convocation ( kind of House of Commons)
622 XII | printing, engraving on copper plates, oil-painting, looking-glasses;
623 XIX | creature, who is the greatest coquette and the most perfidious
624 I | writes as follows to the Corinthians, 'Christ sent me not to
625 XVII | passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
626 III | Religion, say these, was corrupted a little after His death,
627 XXIII| this immortality did not cost him two hundred thousand
628 XXII | beaute non loin d'elle est couchee, C'est l'Afectation qui
629 III | truth and with the wisest counsels. "Thou hast tasted," said
630 XVII | The Greeks before they counted by Olympiads followed the
631 VII | leaves to the reader the counting of the voices and the liberty
632 X | despatches orders from his counting-house to Surat and Grand Cairo,
633 XVIII| il en est, eclairez mon courage. Faut-il vieillir courbe
634 XVIII| courage. Faut-il vieillir courbe sous la main qui m'outrage,
635 XXI | eclaircir vos misteres, Et courez dans l'ecole adorer vos
636 XVIII| menace, on dit que cette courte vie, De tourmens eternels
637 I | I began to question my courteous host. I opened with that
638 XVIII| the senator, and Naki, his courtesan, in the midst of the horrors
639 XX | highest rank in the state. The courtiers particularly were conversant
640 VI | more venerable than many courts of justice, where the representatives
641 XXIII| having buried Mademoiselle Le Couvreur ignominiously in the fields.~
642 I | the head which is made to cover it. "Friend," says he to
643 II | their fans, and the men were covered with their broad-brimmed
644 Int | that Voltaire's active life covers nearly the whole eighteenth
645 XXII | Duke of Marlborough was a coward, and that Mr. Pope was a
646 XIII | their sleeves and of their cowls.~~
647 XXI | we have modern cloistered coxcombs, who Retire to think, 'cause
648 XVIII| what we possessed; Strange cozenage! none would live past years
649 IV | buttons on his sleeves, and a crape hatband in his beaver, but
650 V | is, when their ambition craves a supply. Employments are
651 IV | Vice-Admiral imagined his son to be crazy, but soon finding he was
652 XIII | vain; He therefore did not create so many organs of sensation,
653 XIV | the very instant of the creation.~You will observe farther,
654 XVII | display some marks of that creative genius with which Sir Isaac
655 XV | matter-one of the secrets of the Creator-and have calculated and discovered
656 XIX | of her sex, and he is so credulous as to be confident she is
657 XXIV | errors of diction which are crept into them. There are many
658 XVIII| scrupule parle, et nous crie, arretez; Il defend a nos
659 III | great box of the ear, and cried to him, "Don't you know
660 XII | great man was accused of a crime very unbecoming a philosopher:
661 IX | in all matters civil and criminal; nor a right or privilege
662 VIII | who were so unjustly, so criminally proud as not to suffer the
663 XI | of it to be made on four criminals sentenced to die, and by
664 XXI | old witch fly, And bear a crippled carcass through the sky. '
665 XIV | Fontenelle's judgment, they criticised his discourse. And even
666 XV | might have answered these critics thus:-"First, you have as
667 XIV | of ancient heroes.~In a critique that was made in London
668 I | certainly not permit us to cross the seas, merely because
669 XXI | morts. Ton esprit enerve croupit dans la molesse. Reveille
670 III | converts. The prisons were crowded with them, but persecution
671 IV | vineyard.~Their labours were crowned with success in Amsterdam,
672 XVI | change afterwards in the crucible. As a superabundant proof
673 XVIII| de l'etre au neant. Dieux cruels, s'il en est, eclairez mon
674 XIII | word; the adventure of the crusade having a little sunk the
675 XII | believed that there were crystal heavens, that the stars
676 XVII | infinite squares, infinite cubes, and infinites of infinites,
677 XVI | certain that there is a cubic inch of solid matter in
678 XIV | to enjoy the happiness of cultivating his philosophical studies
679 XV | There is at least more cunning, if not more certainty,
680 XVIII| moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the
681 XII | bed, received him with the curtains shut close. "You resemble
682 XVIII| blest With some new joy, cuts off what we possessed; Strange
683 XXIII| Signor Senesino or Signora Cuzzoni. With regard to myself,
684 XVII | owe the invention of the cycloid.~Be this as it will, it
685 XIII | Diogenes (not he who was a cynical philosopher after having
686 XX | habitans miserables Sont damnes dans le Paradis."~~
687 VI | cordially as a Jansenist damns a Jesuit.~Take a view of
688 XI | and caress men; are taught dances of a very polite and effeminate
689 IX | Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, and the French successively.
690 I | adversaries confess it to be of dangerous tendency, the arguments
691 XXI | is there, say you, that dares deny So owned a truth? That
692 XVIII| order, or verisimilitude, dart such resplendent flashes
693 III | already heard that the Quakers date from Christ, who, according
694 XVII | history in which there were no dates fixed, and should know that
695 XI | Circassians are poor, and their daughters are beautiful, and indeed,
696 XI | five-and-twenty, nor the Dauphin, grandfather to Louis XV.,
697 III | sins, but doth and will deal plainly and faithfully with
698 V | There are few bishops, deans, or other dignitaries, but
699 I | once made to Huguenots. "My dear sir," said I, "were you
700 XXIV | bodies, is, to argue and debate on things which were invented
701 XII | frivolous question following was debated in a very polite and learned
702 XVIII| tricks of a lewd, impotent debauchee, who is quite frantic and
703 IV | which consisted in Crown debts due to the Vice-Admiral
704 XVIII| by hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on and think, to-morrow
705 XXII | pucelle, Avec un air devot dechirant son prochain, Et chansonnant
706 XIV | the English expected his decision, as a solemn declaration
707 III | proselytes at his heels, still declaiming against the clergy, and
708 XXI | the same subject. Boileau declaims as follows against human
709 XIII | are too apt to begin their declarations with saying that God is
710 XXII | Vieil spectre feminin, decrepite pucelle, Avec un air devot
711 XXI | Des sages animaux, rivale dedaigneuse, Qui croit entr'eux et l'
712 IV | and to whom Descartes had dedicated his Philosophical Romance.~
713 III | could possibly admit. The dedication to Charles II. is not filled
714 III | the close of his epistle dedicatory, "of prosperity and adversity;
715 XXI | up of doubt, That frames deep mysteries, then finds them
716 XII | the universe, not they who deface it.~Since, therefore, you
717 XVIII| et nous crie, arretez; Il defend a nos mains cet heureux
718 X | cannot be either taken or defended, he addressed himself to
719 V | considered these noblemen as the defenders of its holy privileges.
720 VIII | without design, and head of a defenseless party, caballed for caballing'
721 IV | arms, either offensive or defensive; for a body of citizens
722 V | kind of mortal (not to be defined), who is neither of the
723 XIV | neither are agreed upon the definition of the soul, nor on that
724 XVIII| despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office,
725 XXI | our versification, and the delicacies of the French tongue, will
726 XXII | real tragedy, have several delightful comedies, some wonderful
727 XXIV | shall become a Sir Peter Delme, a Sir Richard Hopkins,
728 III | priestess of the Pythian god at Delphos could not have acted her
729 XV | that in the time of the Deluge a comet overflowed the terrestrial
730 XVIII| version of it runs thus:~"Demeure, il faut choisir et passer
731 V | some meeting-houses and the demolishing of a few of them. For religious
732 XIII | eternal. No doubt but the demon of Socrates had instructed
733 XVI | disposition? Sir Isaac Newton demonstrates that it is nothing more
734 XIII | of a country. Though our demonstrations clash directly with our
735 XVII | this famous calculation was denied to Sir Isaac Newton. In
736 XVIII| that in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, two grave-diggers make
737 V | against Dissenters of all denominations. This zeal was pretty violent
738 XV | had it not been a firm, dense body. The guessing the course
739 Int | typical literary figure. Every department of letters then in vogue
740 XV | measure of our globe, and depended on the uncertain supposition
741 XXI | they had been their whole dependence. They also have made learning
742 IX | was indeed to make kings dependent on the Lords; but then the
743 I | our case would be very deplorable, should we fill with such
744 IX | made even kings tremble, deposed and assassinated them at
745 XIV | was as much disguised and depraved in the universities of Holland,
746 XII | improve human reason from depraving it by their quiddities,
747 V | Cambridge, far from the depravity and corruption which reign
748 II | no priests. Wouldst thou deprive us of so happy a distinction?
749 V | that the Bishops should derive their authority from the
750 XXI | annoncer sa mort.~"Par ses derniers soupirs il ebranle cet ile;
751 XXII | migraine. Sur un riche sofa derriere un paravent Loin des flambeaux,
752 XV | hard, opaque bodies; for it descended so near to the sun, as to
753 XVIII| him: but the touches and descriptions which are applauded in Shakspeare.
754 XXI | Paris, and in my opinion deserved it better. Voiture was born
755 VIII | the last war of Paris, it deserves only to be hooted at. Methinks
756 I | to his fortune and to his desires, and was settled in a little
757 XVIII| regrets et d'erreurs en desirs Les mortels insenses promenent
758 XX | charmans, Des pretres la main desolante Etouffe ses plus beaux presens.~"
759 XXII | especially which I should despair of ever making you understand,
760 XV | the Cartesian vortices, he despaired of ever being able to discover
761 X | who enriches his country, despatches orders from his counting-house
762 XVIII| you my translation:~"De desseins en regrets et d'erreurs
763 XIV | This famous Newton, this destroyer of the Cartesian system,
764 XIX | thrown into the Bastille, and detained there for some time, without
765 XVI | so perfectly, that he has determined to what degree of perfection
766 XV | retains it in its orbit, and determines its motion? But in case
767 XVII | place, that Sir Isaac, by determining the figure of the earth,
768 VIII | for their object.~In the detestable reigns of Charles IX. and
769 IX | account in this resignation, dethroned the wretched King John and
770 XVIII| A des amis ingrats qui detournent la vue? La mort seroit trop
771 XXIII| we give the title of the devil's works to pieces which
772 XVIII| helas! du soin qui nous devore, Nul de nous ne voudroit
773 XXII | decrepite pucelle, Avec un air devot dechirant son prochain,
774 XXIV | generally found in those who devote themselves to that pertinacious
775 XXI | autres erreurs, il est de ces devots Condamne par eux memes a
776 VIII | neighbours, for fear they should devour their masters. Thus the
777 XVI | single ray of light with more dexterity than the ablest artist dissects
778 XX | Semblent habitez par les diables; Et les habitans miserables
779 XVII | business is to measure the diagonal of a square, to give the
780 XXI | are more easily found than diamonds. Voiture, born with an easy
781 XXI | taken notice of in Bayle's Dictionary), which Waller made to King
782 Int | was the development of the didactic and philosophic element.
783 XVIII| ou de l'etre au neant. Dieux cruels, s'il en est, eclairez
784 XIV | that these two great men differed very much in conduct, in
785 XVII | considered as the inventor of the differences or moments, called fluxions,
786 XXII | sans joie, De cent maux differens pretend qu'elle est la proie;
787 XVII | that the name is given of differential calculations or of fluxions
788 XXII | throne. Alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face,
789 XI | dough; it ferments, and diffuses through the whole mass of
790 XII | promises, endeavoured to dig up.~But that which surprised
791 V | bishops, deans, or other dignitaries, but imagine they are so
792 XIII | only, I beg you, what a dilemma you bring yourselves into,
793 XXII | which exhibits objects in a dim and confused light may have
794 XV | same without any sensible diminution at the remotest distance
795 I | Come in, and let us first dine together." I still continued
796 XVI | Sir Isaac has shown that dioptric telescopes cannot be brought
797 XXI | tes flots emus Semblent dire en grondant aux plus lointains
798 XV | attracts them all in a direct ratio of their quantity
799 XIX | fine geniuses never spoke disadvantageously of Moliere; and that none
800 XX | presens.~"Les monsignors, soy disant Grands, Seuls dans leurs
801 XIV | was settled upon him. Thus disappointed, he returned to his solitude
802 X | letter to the persons who had disbursed him the above-mentioned
803 XVI | objects as small as those we discern upon the earth.~But Sir
804 I | inclinations. He circumcised his disciple Timothy, and the other disciples
805 XXIV | who are under a regular discipline, and besides well paid,
806 VIII | gentleman, so far from being disconcerted, repeated the same words
807 XI | case the English should discontinue it through fickleness.~I
808 XIII | lighted up the firebrand of discord in their countries; this
809 XVIII| those who have hitherto discoursed with you on the English
810 XI | artifices the pleasures of their disdainful masters for whom they are
811 X | his profession treated so disdainfully, is fool enough to blush
812 I | ceremonies, it not being easy to disengage one's self at once from
813 XVII | Accustomed to unravel and disentangle chaos, he was resolved to
814 XXIV | first academicians, were a disgrace to their country; and so
815 XIV | that reason was as much disguised and depraved in the universities
816 XIX | bestow so much as one glance, disguises herself in the habit of
817 XIX | him; and I was very much disgusted at so unseasonable a piece
818 XXIII| and monasteries; that we dishonour sports in which Louis XIV.
819 XXII | in a vapour reached the dismal dome, No cheerful breeze
820 XV | and would have been soon dispersed in vapour, had it not been
821 XIII | history of it. Mr. Locke has displayed the human soul in the same
822 X | second to Porto Bello, to dispossess the King of Spain of the
823 XXIII| greatest men in the nation disputing who should have the honour
824 IV | all the rest. Quakers are disqualified from being members of Parliament;
825 XXI | were writers, and wholly disregard everything else. I shall
826 XI | inconsiderable an advantage as to be disregarded by the ladies? It must be
827 XVI | dexterity than the ablest artist dissects a human body. This man is
828 VII | Arians or Socinians, do yet dissent entirely from St. Athanasius
829 V | fellows famous for their dissoluteness, and raised to the highest
830 X | three different and far distanced parts of the globe. One
831 XV | is sixty semi-diameters distant from the moon, a heavy body
832 XIII | they had a very clear and distinct idea of the soul, and yet
833 XIV | merit as well as a very distinguished reputation, and indeed he
834 XVI | as to prove the method of distinguishing compound colours from such
835 II | hearers understood. When this distorter had ended his beautiful
836 VIII | and Presbyterians quite distracted these very serious heads
837 III | who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to
838 XVIII| la vie. Demain, demain, dit-on, va combler tous nos voeus.
839 VIII | civil war merely out of diversion. The parliament did not
840 I | assemblies of pleasure, from diversions of every kind, and from
841 XXII | laugh at the pleasant and diverting touches which are found
842 XX | passion for intrigue, were the divinities of the country. The Court
843 VI | morning together in the divinity schools, and hums a song
844 V | imagine they are so jure divino; it is consequently a great
845 XVII | namely, that matter is divisible in infinitum. These two
846 XVII | fraction by a perpetual division to an infinite series.~The
847 XXI | la baze et l'appui, Et le dixieme ciel ne tourne que pour
848 XXI | un peuple a son joug seul docile.~"Mer tu t'en es trouble;
849 XXI | raison c'est la tienne, docteur C'est la raison frivole,
850 XVIII| He mimics a bull and a dog, and bites his mistress'
851 VII | respect to me-first, in not doing honour sufficient to my
852 III | there were no clandestine doings."]~Fox was bold enough to
853 XVIII| mais un affreux reveil Doit succeder peut etre aux douceurs
854 XXII | vapour reached the dismal dome, No cheerful breeze this
855 XX | faineants, Sans argent, et sans domestiques.~"Pour les petits, sans
856 Int | century, of which he was the dominant and typical literary figure.
857 II | mercenary creatures would soon domineer in our houses and destroy
858 XVI | novelties.~Till Antonio de Dominis the rainbow was considered
859 V | Multae sunt mansiones in domo patris mei (in my Father'
860 XX | in our tongue: ~"Qu'ay je donc vu dans l'Italie? Orgueil,
861 XXI | maitre pretendu qui leur donne des loix, Ce roi des animaux,
862 XXI | nous montrant ses fers, Et dont l'oeil, trouble et faux,
863 IV | that he turned him out of doors. Young Penn gave God thanks
864 XXI | penses point, miserable, tu dors: Inutile a la terre, et
865 IX | has not a foot of land in Dorsetshire; and another is Earl of
866 III | at ease in thy sins, but doth and will deal plainly and
867 I | you,' as though they were double, instead of 'thou' employed
868 XVIII| vue? La mort seroit trop douce en ces extremitez, Mais
869 XVIII| Doit succeder peut etre aux douceurs du sommeil! On nous menace,
870 XI | in as yeast in a piece of dough; it ferments, and diffuses
871 XXI | atome imparfait, qui croit, doute, dispute Rampe, s'eleve,
872 XXII | caverne profonde, Ou loin des doux raions que repand l'oeil
873 III | Quintus had for another sect, Dove non si chiavava,1 began
874 IX | fighting with an eagle for doves whose blood the victorious
875 Int | time, his most successful dramas including "Zaire," "Oedipe," "
876 I | countenance, than in the custom of drawing one leg behind the other,
877 XXII | sullen region knows, The dreaded east is all the wind that
878 XVIII| To sleep; perchance to dream! Ay, there's the rub; For
879 XIV | is, that the latter was a dreamer, and the former a sage.~
880 XVIII| that sleep of death, what dreams may come When we have shuffled
881 XVIII| its nature, and to lop and dress it in the same manner as
882 I | aspect than his. He was dressed like those of his persuasion,
883 XIX | I have seen France, that drew crowds to the play-house,
884 XVIII| grave, and are all the time drinking, singing ballads, and making
885 XII | a ship which a storm had driven as far westward as the Caribbean
886 XVI | refractions of light in drops of rain. And his sagacity
887 XVI | completely purged from its dross, will never change afterwards
888 VIII | through seas of blood to drown the idol of arbitrary power.
889 XXIII| is Dean of St. Patrick in Dublin, and is more revered in
890 XII | at the instigation of the Duchess of Burgundy, and who disputed
891 XXI | Dorset and Roscommon, the two Dukes of Buckingham, the Lord
892 XVIII| writ, is disfigured by a dull love plot, which spreads
893 XVII | mistaken when they supposed the durations in general of reigns to
894 XXII | pame avec art."~"Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite As ever
895 IX | nobleman or a priest. All duties and taxes are settled by
896 IV | found their congregations dwindle away, daily; and Penn being
897 IV | America, but I perceive it dwindles away daily in England. In
898 XXIV | seem to chew with great eagerness, and make as though they
899 IX | of prey fighting with an eagle for doves whose blood the
900 III | gave him a great box of the ear, and cried to him, "Don'
901 XXI | Nature had indulged him. The Earls of Dorset and Roscommon,
902 XXIII| and himself to lose his ears. His trial is now extant.~
903 II | body gives motion to this earthly tabernacle. And are the
904 III | nor suffer thee to be at ease in thy sins, but doth and
905 IX | conquered subjects as an eastern monarch; and forbade, upon
906 XVII | stars advanced one degree eastward every hundred years. In
907 XXIV | make as though they were eating, at the same time that they
908 XIV | gentlemen fancy it should be ebb, which very unluckily cannot
909 XXI | ses derniers soupirs il ebranle cet ile; Cet ile que son
910 XV | describe an ellipsis so very eccentric, and so near to parabolas,
911 III | but he inveighed against ecclesiastics. Fox was seized at Derby,
912 XXI | egarez. Allez obscurement eclaircir vos misteres, Et courez
913 XVIII| Dieux cruels, s'il en est, eclairez mon courage. Faut-il vieillir
914 XXI | Et la voix des tonnerres eclatant sur nos tetes Vient d'annoncer
915 XIV | componere lites."~Virgil, Eclog. III.~"'Tis not for us to
916 XXII | qui grassaie en parlant, Ecoute sans entendre, et lorgne
917 II | the stupid, but greatly edified, congregation were separated,
918 XXIV | they would give us new editions of the valuable works written
919 XI | taken the utmost care of the education of their children, they
920 XII | of York, second to King Edward IV., to walk and vex the
921 XII | foreigners.~When the Marquis d'Effiat attended in England upon
922 XVII | frenzy, are in reality an effort of the sublety and extent
923 XXI | lointains rivages Que l'effroi de la terre et ton maitre
924 XXI | labirinthe, ou vous vous egarez. Allez obscurement eclaircir
925 XVIII| nom se glace epouvante. Eh! qui pourroit sans toi supporter
926 XXII | in her cheek the roses of eighteen, Practised to lisp, and
927 Int | covers nearly the whole eighteenth century, of which he was
928 XIX | have made sacred. Oedipus, Electra, and such-like characters,
929 XVIII| and infused a spirit of elegance through every part of it,
930 XII | art of writing justly and elegantly was little known, much less
931 XXI | other pieces. He wrote an elegy on Oliver Cromwell, which,
932 Int | didactic and philosophic element. In prose fiction he wrote "
933 XXI | doute, dispute Rampe, s'eleve, tombe, et nie encore sa
934 XVII | this manner they computed eleven thousand three hundred and
935 IV | reception they met with from Elizabeth, the Princess Palatine,
936 XV | make their revolutions in ellipses, and consequently being
937 XV | and that they describe an ellipsis so very eccentric, and so
938 XIV | translated into their tongue, the Elogium of Sir Isaac Newton, which
939 VI | pedants, and accordingly eloped from them with as much joy
940 VII | and Zuinglius, all of 'em wretched authors, should
941 IV | countries, and accordingly they embarked for Holland, after having
942 XIX | false friend a Cato. He embarks on board his ship in order
943 XXIV | and a more sensible use, embrace the knowledge of nature
944 XIX | and will force him to her embraces. But as it is requisite
945 XXI | presented a copy of verses embroidered with praises, reproached
946 XXI | in an age that was just emerging from barbarity; an age that
947 II | the following words in an emphatic tone:-"'God forbid we should
948 VIII | the administration than by employing them in foreign wars. They
949 VI | and consequently cannot emulate the splendid luxury of bishops,
950 XXI | trouble; O mer tes flots emus Semblent dire en grondant
951 XVIII| D'une indigne maitresse encenser les erreurs, Ramper sous
952 XXI | ennui du repos. Ce mystique encloitre, fier de son indolence Tranquille,
953 XI | and titles, was born to encourage the whole circle of arts,
954 XXIII| circumstance which mostly encourages the arts in England is the
955 XVIII| sommeil tranquile. On s'endort, et tout meurt, mais un
956 XVIII| original, by that very means enervates the sense, and extinguishes
957 XXI | rang des morts. Ton esprit enerve croupit dans la molesse.
958 XXII | teint pale, et l'hypocondre enfle. La medisante Envie, est
959 IV | prudence could suggest to engage him to behave and act like
960 XII | made a kind of pneumatic engine, by which he guessed the
961 V | house are many mansions). An Englishman, as one to whom liberty
962 XIII | material and mortal. Some Englishmen, devout after their way,
963 XII | time-the sea-compass, printing, engraving on copper plates, oil-painting,
964 XII | which alone were enough to engross his whole time, he yet found
965 XXI | Peres de visions, et d'enigmes sacres, Auteurs du labirinthe,
966 XIV | long course of years he enjoyed, was never sensible to any
967 IV | enriched, are desirous of enjoying honours, of wearing buttons
968 II | eyes to that light which enlightens all mankind, and it is then
969 I | wearing caps two foot high, enlist citizens by a noise made
970 XXI | Condamne par eux memes a l'ennui du repos. Ce mystique encloitre,
971 IX | to plough the lands which enrich them, and on which they
972 XX | en vain bienfaisante Veut enricher ses lieux charmans, Des
973 X | minister; or a merchant, who enriches his country, despatches
974 XII | of truth, not those who enslave their fellow-creatures:
975 XXII | en parlant, Ecoute sans entendre, et lorgne en regardant.
976 XIII | with Mr. Locke. That divine entered the lists against him, but
977 II | already assembled at my entering it with my guide. There
978 XVIII| pale cast of thought: And enterprises of great weight and moment
979 IV | palace, and she at last entertained so favourable an opinion
980 XIX | one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his
981 XIV | piece of poetry for the entertainment of Christina, Queen of Sweden,
982 XXII | Aquilons y sifflent a l'entour, Et le souffle mal sain
983 XXI | rivale dedaigneuse, Qui croit entr'eux et l'Ange, occuper le
984 IV | Quaker, and the good old man entreated his son William to wear
985 III | soul. There was no need of entreating these people; the lashes
986 II | a nature for us ever to entrust them to others." "But how
987 XIX | regard to the casket he had entrusted her with. The captain can
988 XXII | hypocondre enfle. La medisante Envie, est assise aupres d'elle,
989 XXII | aride haleine Y porte aux environs la fievre et la migraine.
990 XXI | Tel au ciel autrefois s'envola Romulus, Tel il quitta la
991 XXII | saw Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Paris in
992 Int | from his "Henriade," an epic on the classical model,
993 XIII | confess was very sublime. Epicurus maintained that it was composed
994 Int | to the class of satire, epigram, and vers de societe. Of
995 V | the Tories declared for Episcopacy, and the Whigs, as some
996 XIX | enough. Some wag, in an epitaph he made on Sir John Vanbrugh,
997 XVIII| a ton seul nom se glace epouvante. Eh! qui pourroit sans toi
998 XIV | of expressing curves by equations. This geometry which, thanks
999 III | and a holy madman. He was equipped in leather from head to
1000 XVIII| resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought: