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1001 XVII | Sethon; and, having no fixed era, they supposed three generations
1002 XVII | Egyptians and the Greeks made an errenous computation. It is true,
1003 XXII | has been vastly lavish of erudition, of smut, and insipid raillery.
1004 XVIII| at the same time, were ery flat and insipid. One would
1005 XXI | seul docile.~"Mer tu t'en es trouble; O mer tes flots
1006 X | consisted only in their escutcheons and their pride.~In France
1007 XVIII| malheurs presents, dans l'espoir des plaisirs Nous ne vivons
1008 XIV | among the English.~The very essence of things is totally changed.
1009 XVIII| je? Qui m'arrete! et qu'est-ce que la mort? C'est la fin
1010 IV | universal toleration, of establishing the Romish religion. All
1011 XIX | ability; but a Buononcini esteems that great artist, and does
1012 IX | the lands, of all which an estimate was made in the reign of
1013 XIII | asserted, that man thinks eternally, and that the soul, at its
1014 XVIII| courte vie, De tourmens eternels est aussi-tot suivie. O
1015 XVIII| moment fatal! affreuse eternite! Tout coeur a ton seul nom
1016 XX | pretres la main desolante Etouffe ses plus beaux presens.~"
1017 X | of taking Turin; Prince Eugene was obliged to march from
1018 XXIV | academician to repeat these eulogiums at his reception; it was
1019 XIX | necessary to have him made a eunuch. Upon his appearing in this
1020 XXIII| which has immortalised a Euripides and a Sophocles; or to exclude
1021 XXII | Et chansonnant les Gens l'Evangile a la main. Sur un lit plein
1022 VI | chorus with ladies in the evening; but this Cato is a very
1023 XVII | nearer, and the several events are found to have happened
1024 XV | Moreover, the reason is evidently seen why the nodes of the
1025 VIII | and productive of greater evils than those of England; but
1026 XVI | refrangible, and from hence he evinces that the same power is the
1027 XXIV | pursuits as these, such exact calculations, such refined
1028 XV | planets with the utmost exactness; therefore, the power of
1029 XII | Marlborough had been charged, some examples whereof being given, the
1030 XXIII| infamy an art in which we excel; that we excommunicate persons
1031 IV | titles of "highness" and "excellency." William Penn returned
1032 XVIII| this dramatic piece, so excellently well writ, is disfigured
1033 V | All the clergy (a very few excepted) are educated in the Universities
1034 VI | Take a view of the Royal Exchange in London, a place more
1035 XXIV | acquaint him with the nature of exchanges. This is very nearly the
1036 XIII | to others. It was loudly exclaimed that Mr. Locke intended
1037 III | one village to another, exclaiming against war and the clergy.
1038 XXIII| Euripides and a Sophocles; or to exclude from the body of their citizens
1039 XXIII| which Mr. Pope professes excludes him, indeed from preferments
1040 XXIII| to hear a writer talk of excommunicating him, though they themselves
1041 IX | laws, they fulminated their excommunications, and sentenced to death.
1042 XVI | confidence that was very excusable, considering how strongly
1043 I | mentioned in the Gospel. "Excuse," said he, "my ignorance,
1044 VIII | cruel, those of the League execrable, and that of the Frondeurs1
1045 III | the justice's order was executed with the utmost severity.
1046 VIII | several of them put in execution, and the last bereaving
1047 VIII | troops, it is punished by executioners, and the rest of the nation
1048 IX | his own field.~No one is exempted in this country from paying
1049 XXI | such great geniuses as have exercised their talent on the same
1050 XI | received from Nature, nor of exerting her beneficence. It is she
1051 XXII | the spirit of party which exhibits objects in a dim and confused
1052 IV | William made a fruitless exhortation to his father not to receive
1053 VI | mode of grave and severe exhortations. To them is owing the sanctification
1054 IV | answer to his father, than by exhorting him to turn Quaker also.
1055 Int | which led to his being twice exiled from Paris and twice imprisoned
1056 IX | legates thither to levy exorbitant taxes. At last King John
1057 XVI | the curiosity of man could expect after so many philosophical
1058 XIV | to a bad regimen, and he expired in the midst of some literati
1059 XIII | as an excellent anatomist explains the springs of the human
1060 XVI | fame by his mathematical explication of this so natural a phenomenon.
1061 XIX | the whole city of Paris exploded them, and yet all flocked
1062 XXI | Quand dans le cours de ses exploits, Il brisoit la tete des
1063 XI | unnatural, because they expose them to die one time or
1064 I | thyself mayest peruse in the Exposition of our Faith written by
1065 XXI | it is certain they are expressed with an energy and fire
1066 XIV | first taught the method of expressing curves by equations. This
1067 VIII | The singularity of the expression occasioned a loud laugh;
1068 XXIII| his ears. His trial is now extant.~The Italians are far from
1069 XXIV | refined discoveries, such extensive and exalted views, will,
1070 IX | ancient peers were at last extinct; and as peers only are properly
1071 III | the sacred fire, which was extinguished in all but themselves, until
1072 XVIII| enervates the sense, and extinguishes all the fire of it. It is
1073 XII | philosopher: I mean bribery and extortion. You know that he was sentenced
1074 X | vainly puffed up with their extraction. These think it morally
1075 IX | themselves by their folly and extravagance, and all the lands got by
1076 XXIII| reproached with paying too extravagant honours to mere merit, and
1077 XX | beaucoup de ceremonie~"L'extravagante comedie Que souvent l'Inquisition
1078 XXIII| have been reduced to the extremes of misery had he not been
1079 XVIII| seroit trop douce en ces extremitez, Mais le scrupule parle,
1080 XVIII| writer whose genius was too exuberant, and not accompanied with
1081 V | the least scandal.~That fable-mixed kind of mortal (not to be
1082 XVII | some light into that of the fables of antiquity which are blended
1083 XIV | here as the Hercules of fabulous story, to whom the ignorant
1084 XIV | man of Descartes is, in fact, that of Descartes only,
1085 VIII | rebellious without a cause, factious without design, and head
1086 XXIII| was excommunicated ipso facto; and added, that doubtless
1087 X | brother was no more than a factor in Aleppo, where he chose
1088 XIII | are mere matter, with the faculties of sensation and perception,
1089 XXIII| been patronised by Monsieur Fagon.~But the circumstance which
1090 IV | give into it; they never failing to unite when the Romish
1091 XXI | this haughty thing would fain Be think himself the only
1092 XX | magnifiques Y sont d'illustres faineants, Sans argent, et sans domestiques.~"
1093 XXII | and hang the head aside, Faints into airs, and languishes
1094 XXI | sein de Dieu. Que peut il faire? Il pense. Non, tu ne penses
1095 III | and will deal plainly and faithfully with thee, as those that
1096 XIX | place and lies with his faithless mistress, cuckolds his treacherous
1097 XI | nations when their harvest has fallen short.~The circumstance
1098 I | respect, and an infamous falsehood, their most obedient humble
1099 IV | number of these savages (falsely so called), charmed with
1100 XVIII| will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies
1101 XI | follows the history of the famed innoculation, which is mentioned
1102 XIII | his being attended by a familiar genius must infallibly be
1103 V | University, and the little familiarity the men of this country
1104 IX | increased every day. The families of the ancient peers were
1105 XX | Et toujours jeunant par famine.~"Ces beaux lieux du Pape
1106 I | nor attempt to win over a fanatic by strength of reasoning.
1107 XXIII| raised by a number of rigid fanatics, who at last were the victims
1108 XXI | reverends fous, bienheureux fanatiques, Compilez bien l'amas de
1109 XV | to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily,
1110 II | their faces behind their fans, and the men were covered
1111 XXII | interspersed his unaccountably fantastic and unitelligible book with
1112 XVIII| this writer's monstrous farces, to which the name of tragedy
1113 XXII | sante sous le rouge et le fard, Se plaint avec molesse,
1114 XVIII| a bare bodkin. Who would fardels bear To groan and sweat
1115 XXIV | Chapelain, Colletet, Cassaigne, Faret, Perrin, Cotin, our first
1116 XIV | himself had in some measure fashioned, which would have conducted
1117 III | from the hole where it was fastened, the populace went and searched
1118 XII | whether the same clock will of faster on the top of a mountain
1119 XIII | reason.~With regard to the Fathers of the Church, several in
1120 XIV | beginning of a system. In fathoming this abyss no bottom has
1121 XVIII| runs thus:~"Demeure, il faut choisir et passer a l'instant
1122 XVIII| est, eclairez mon courage. Faut-il vieillir courbe sous la
1123 XXI | dont l'oeil, trouble et faux, croit percer l'univers.
1124 IX | the nation were a little favoured in it, in order that they
1125 IV | son of Vice-Admiral Penn, favourite of the Duke of York, afterwards
1126 IX | he in reality hated and feared them, got their lands alienated.
1127 XIV | ignorant ascribed all the feats of ancient heroes.~In a
1128 III | of those that may or do feed thee and prompt thee to
1129 II | the Gospel truths, he may feel inwardly, such a one may
1130 XIII | organs, that faculty of feeling, perceiving, and thinking,
1131 XIV | returned to France; paid the fees of his patent, which was
1132 XVII | suffer him to indulge his fellow-creature; and, indeed, at the same
1133 V | told that in France young fellows famous for their dissoluteness,
1134 XXII | aupres d'elle, Vieil spectre feminin, decrepite pucelle, Avec
1135 XIX | which is a kind of Ecole des Femmes, or, School for Married
1136 XI | in a piece of dough; it ferments, and diffuses through the
1137 Int | to 1778, on his estate of Ferney, near Geneva, where he produced
1138 XXI | libre, en nous montrant ses fers, Et dont l'oeil, trouble
1139 XI | should discontinue it through fickleness.~I am informed that the
1140 XVII | related a great number of fictitious particulars, it is probable
1141 XXIII| God, and the Propaganda Fide; took it into his head to
1142 XIX | expected had preserved her fidelity to him and the treasure
1143 XXIII| Couvreur ignominiously in the fields.~But be assured from me,
1144 XXI | Ce mystique encloitre, fier de son indolence Tranquille,
1145 XXII | Y porte aux environs la fievre et la migraine. Sur un riche
1146 XVII | sign, that is to say to the fifteenth degree. A year before the
1147 XI | laid in his grave in his fiftieth year. Twenty thousand persons
1148 IX | These were birds of prey fighting with an eagle for doves
1149 XVII | appears to us stronger when he fights upon his own ground.~You
1150 XVIII| confessed that the stilts of the figurative style, on which the English
1151 VIII | proper sense Slingers, and figuratively Cavillers, or lovers of
1152 XIV | ingenious metaphors and figures. Nature had almost made
1153 I | very deplorable, should we fill with such levities as those
1154 XVIII| est-ce que la mort? C'est la fin de nos maux, c'est mon unique
1155 XX | are abler scholars, have a finer taste, and more wit, than
1156 XI | of Soubise, happy in the finest flush of health, would not
1157 XVIII| m'outrage, Supporter, ou finir mon malheur et mon sort?
1158 XXI | than Voiture, was not yet a finished poet. The graces breathe
1159 XV | forces; and the planets finishing their course according to
1160 XVII | right line so long as it is finite, by changing infinitely
1161 XIII | nor Toland lighted up the firebrand of discord in their countries;
1162 XV | law. The orbit of these fires (unknown for so great a
1163 I | the sky is in a blaze with fireworks, and a noise is heard in
1164 XV | vapour, had it not been a firm, dense body. The guessing
1165 IV | having at last seen Quakerism firmly established in his native
1166 XVIII| as the Corneille of the first-mentioned nation, was pretty nearly
1167 XI | have been snatched away at five-and-twenty, nor the Dauphin, grandfather
1168 XVII | confounded with history, and fix an uncertain chronology.
1169 XV | if not more certainty, in fixing its return to so remote
1170 XXII | derriere un paravent Loin des flambeaux, du bruit, des parleurs
1171 VIII | to determine whether the flamen should wear his shirt over
1172 XVIII| verisimilitude, dart such resplendent flashes through this gleam, as amaze
1173 I | shameless traffic of lies and flattery, that we 'thee' and 'thou'
1174 X | to send, in 1723, three fleets at the same time to three
1175 XVIII| thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to! 'T is a consummation
1176 XXII | main. Sur un lit plein de fleurs negligemment panchee Une
1177 XX | time. The French are of so flexible a disposition, may be moulded
1178 XII | that the stars were so many flints which had been detached
1179 XXII | Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome, And in a vapour
1180 XV | particular vortex which floats in the great one, and which
1181 XIV | the moon should make it flood with us, those gentlemen
1182 XXI | en es trouble; O mer tes flots emus Semblent dire en grondant
1183 IV | Philadelphia, now the most flourishing city in that country. The
1184 XXII | the soft accents of the flute. His compositions may be
1185 XXI | bras fit trembler tant de fois, Quand dans le cours de
1186 XI | to compile a great many folios on this subject, with the
1187 III | thee, as those that are followers thereof have plainly done.-
1188 VIII | caballing's sake, and seemed to foment the civil war merely out
1189 XI | virtuously instructed to fondle and caress men; are taught
1190 XVIII| t is all a cheat, Yet fooled by hope, men favour the
1191 XIX | visit him upon no other footing than that of a gentleman
1192 IX | an eastern monarch; and forbade, upon pain of death, the
1193 I | and was absolutely for forcing him to get himself christened. "
1194 XIX | propos-all these are lost to a foreigner.~But it is different with
1195 XV | that comets were always the forerunners of some great calamity which
1196 XV | this principle, plainly foresaw that its very name would
1197 VI | that man has his son's foreskin cut off, whilst a set of
1198 III | with all thy heart, but forget Him who remembered thee
1199 XIII | lights, which it unhappily forgets at its issuing from the
1200 XIV | Schotten in Holland, and Format in France, were the only
1201 I | so many other Christians forswear themselves on the holy Gospels.
1202 VI | where the ministers are so fortunate as to enjoy an annual revenue
1203 IX | absolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquered subjects
1204 XVII | amount to six hundred and forty-eight years; which, being divided
1205 XVII | computed three hundred and forty-one generations from Menes to
1206 XV | twenty-seven days, seven hours, forty-three minutes. It is demonstrated,
1207 I | said I to him, bending forwards and advancing, as is usual
1208 XIII | the human mind, and who fought with weapons whose temper
1209 XXIV | physics; but methinks the founding an academy merely for the
1210 XVII | before Christ, and not about fourteen hundred; and consequently
1211 XVI | orange, the third yellow, the fourth green, the fifth blue, the
1212 XXI | univers. Allez, reverends fous, bienheureux fanatiques,
1213 XVII | the first who reduced a fraction by a perpetual division
1214 XIV | not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor ever had
1215 XXI | prop That holds the mighty frame of Nature up. The skies
1216 XXI | stirrer up of doubt, That frames deep mysteries, then finds
1217 XIII | dispute which arose among the Franciscans, merely about the fashion
1218 Int | a well-to-do notary, and Francois was educated under the Jesuits
1219 Int | Introduction~Francois-Marie Arouet, known by his assumed
1220 VII | Trinity, and declare very frankly that the Father is greater
1221 Int | he lived at the court of Frederick the Great, with whom he
1222 III | favour that, his head being freed tumultuously from the hole
1223 IV | dominions with two ships freighted with Quakers, who followed
1224 XVII | be the utmost excess of frenzy, are in reality an effort
1225 XXI | docteur C'est la raison frivole, inquiete, orgueilleuse
1226 XIV | mistress a daughter called Froncine, who died young, and was
1227 VIII | then judge.~[Footnote 1: Frondeurs, in its proper sense Slingers,
1228 VIII | execrable, and that of the Frondeurs1 ridiculous.~That for which
1229 I | and after taking part in a frugal meal, which began and ended
1230 IV | but reaped very little fruit; for the mode of "theeing"
1231 IV | tenderly. William made a fruitless exhortation to his father
1232 XV | his garden, and saw some fruits fall from a tree, he fell
1233 XI | their children, they were frustrated of all their hopes in an
1234 V | this occasion; and if they fuddle themselves it is in a very
1235 X | produce is a little lead, tin, fuller's-earth, and coarse wool,
1236 XIII | innate ideas; after having fully renounced the vanity of
1237 IX | They enacted laws, they fulminated their excommunications,
1238 XXIV | who understands the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, aided
1239 XI | they chiefly trade. They furnish with beauties the seraglios
1240 I | without the least pomp of furniture. The Quaker who owned it
1241 | further
1242 XXI | sa mort adore, Son palais fut un Temple," &c.~"We must
1243 XXIII| then it did not prevent his gaining two hundred thousand livres
1244 VI | latter affects a serious gait, puts on a sour look, wears
1245 XI | only saved them from the gallows, but by means of this artificial
1246 XIX | in order to play a surer game, causes a report to be spread,
1247 I | kind, and from places where gaming is practised; and, indeed,
1248 III | imbibed, and followed by their gaolers, whom they had brought over
1249 IX | had been the fate of the Gauls, the Germans, and the Britons,
1250 IX | themselves monarchs. Their generals divided among themselves
1251 XXII | prochain, Et chansonnant les Gens l'Evangile a la main. Sur
1252 VI | quality, and those we call the genteel, play on that day; the rest
1253 I | the great apostle of the Gentiles, writes as follows to the
1254 IV | charmed with the mild and gentle disposition of their neighbours,
1255 I | absolutely for forcing him to get himself christened. "Were
1256 XI | an instant. The small-pox getting into the family, one daughter
1257 V | manner as the Guelphs and Ghibellines formerly did theirs. It
1258 X | of the globe. One before Gibraltar, conquered and still possessed
1259 XVIII| venerable. Most of the whimsical gigantic images of this poet, have,
1260 XXII | all which particulars our giggling rural Vicar Rabelais is
1261 XXIV | Sir Richard Hopkins, a Sir Gilbert Heathcote, whilst a poor
1262 XI | the same manner as little girls among us repeat their catechism
1263 XVIII| coeur a ton seul nom se glace epouvante. Eh! qui pourroit
1264 XIX | not bestow so much as one glance, disguises herself in the
1265 XXIII| had been discovered which glanced at the porter of some man
1266 XXII | shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her
1267 XVIII| resplendent flashes through this gleam, as amaze and astonish.
1268 XVI | to maintain that it is a globular body? That it is false to
1269 XIV | upon the world through the gloom of the schools, and the
1270 XXII | scene, Repairs to search the gloomy cave of Spleen, Swift on
1271 VII | majesty? The emperor was going to order his attendants
1272 XVII | course Sir Isaac Newton has gone through, and we are obliged
1273 XXII | indeed, now living, one Mr. Gordon (the public are obliged
1274 I | forswear themselves on the holy Gospels. We never war or fight in
1275 IX | temporal authority in the Goth and Vandal government. The
1276 XXIII| royal authority, and this Gothic rusticity which some presume
1277 XXIII| set off with the utmost grace of speech and action those
1278 IV | young, handsome, and of a graceful stature, the court as well
1279 XIII | we know not, he examines gradually what we would know. He takes
1280 VI | juvenile, sprightly French graduate, who bawls for a whole morning
1281 XIII | of errors, and where the grandeaur as well as folly of the
1282 XI | five-and-twenty, nor the Dauphin, grandfather to Louis XV., have been
1283 XI | over its own interests, and grasps at every discovery that
1284 XXII | C'est l'Afectation qui grassaie en parlant, Ecoute sans
1285 X | title of marquis is given gratis to any one who will accept
1286 XXIII| the monuments which the gratitude of the nation has erected
1287 XVIII| Prince of Denmark, two grave-diggers make a grave, and are all
1288 I | that all," replied he very gravely, "we would submit cheerfully
1289 XIX | reason because I am neither a Greek nor a Roman. The delicacy
1290 III | sincerely their master's several grimaces, and shook in every limb
1291 XXI | immortal fame; His dying groans, his last breath shakes
1292 XXI | flots emus Semblent dire en grondant aux plus lointains rivages
1293 XXII | incessamment repose, Le coeur gros de chagrin, sans en savoir
1294 XXII | persons, and those of a grotesque taste, who pretend to understand
1295 XXII | wind that blows. Here, in a grotto, sheltered close from air,
1296 XVII | when he fights upon his own ground.~You know that the earth,
1297 IX | entitled barons, had been the guardians of the public liberty and
1298 V | in the same manner as the Guelphs and Ghibellines formerly
1299 XV | a firm, dense body. The guessing the course of comets began
1300 VIII | should be slaves to the Guises. With regard to the last
1301 IX | not permitted to fire a gun in his own field.~No one
1302 XII | their sight by spectacles; gunpowder, &c., had been discovered.
1303 XIX | disguises herself in the habit of a page, and is with him
1304 XX | par les diables; Et les habitans miserables Sont damnes dans
1305 I | heart which ought to be the habitation of God. We never swear,
1306 XX | lieux du Pape benis Semblent habitez par les diables; Et les
1307 I | one's self at once from habits we have been long used to;
1308 III | Inspiration soon became so habitual to him that he could scarce
1309 IV | was then retired to The Hague, where she received these
1310 XXI | numbers:~"Cet esprit que je hais, cet esprit plein d'erreur,
1311 I | Quaker who owned it was a hale, ruddy complexioned old
1312 XXII | souffle mal sain de leur aride haleine Y porte aux environs la
1313 XV | laid aside this pursuit. A half-learned philosopher, remarkable
1314 XXI | of Buckingham, the Lord Halifax, and so many other noblemen,
1315 VIII | sentenced to die in Westminster Hall, and then beheaded. And
1316 XV | revolution.~The learned Dr. Halley is of opinion that the comet
1317 XXII | Megrim at her head, Two handmaids wait the throne. Alike in
1318 XXII | Practised to lisp, and hang the head aside, Faints into
1319 VIII | augury. The English have hanged one another by law, and
1320 XXIII| to be burnt by the common hangman, and himself to lose his
1321 XXIII| picture of the Prime Minister hangs over the chimney of his
1322 IV | at twenty years of age, happening to meet with a Quaker1 in
1323 XVII | east to west, whence it happens that their position every
1324 XIX | little female peasant, a very harmless, innocent creature, who
1325 XXII | the same time, the most harmonious (a circumstance which redounds
1326 XXII | to. He has mellowed the harsh sounds of the English trumpet
1327 XI | other nations when their harvest has fallen short.~The circumstance
1328 XVII | some contested with Dr. Harvey the invention of the circulation
1329 IV | his sleeves, and a crape hatband in his beaver, but all to
1330 VI | most of their preachers hate one another almost as cordially
1331 III | hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to
1332 | hath
1333 XII | the King began again to be haunted with sprites, by the magic
1334 IX | is no such thing here as haute, moyenne, and basse justice-that
1335 XVIII| un ministre, adorer ses hauteurs; Et montrer les langueurs
1336 I | brokenness of heart, for the sad havoc which is the occasion of
1337 XVIII| of the drama. I will now hazard a random, but, at the same
1338 XXIV | as a dissertation on the head-dresses of the Roman ladies with
1339 VIII | distracted these very serious heads for a time. But I fancy
1340 XI | constitution, and is the healthiest man in France, would not
1341 V | Bolingbroke used to drink healths to the Tories, the Church
1342 II | neither himself nor any of his hearers understood. When this distorter
1343 XVIII| sleep to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural
1344 I | spiritual one," replied he, "of hearts." He then began again to
1345 XV | have contracted a degree of heat two thousand times stronger
1346 XXIV | Richard Hopkins, a Sir Gilbert Heathcote, whilst a poor algebraist
1347 V | sea whose billows still heaved, though so long after the
1348 I | it had been used by the Hebrews, long before his time, in
1349 III | dozen proselytes at his heels, still declaiming against
1350 XI | effeminate kind; and how to heighten by the most voluptuous artifices
1351 XVIII| natural shocks That flesh is heir to! 'T is a consummation
1352 XVIII| malheureux. Quelle est l'erreur, helas! du soin qui nous devore,
1353 XVII | as it will, it is by the help of this geometry of infinites
1354 XV | what height soever in our hemisphere, those bodies might descend,
1355 IX | that his officers shall not henceforward seize upon, unless they
1356 Int | highest rank. Apart from his "Henriade," an epic on the classical
1357 XII | England upon the Princess Henrietta Maria, daughter to Henry
1358 IX | the tyrants of the Saxon Heptarchy in England, was the first
1359 V | But these are shameless heretics, who deserve to be blown
1360 XIV | all the feats of ancient heroes.~In a critique that was
1361 XIX | of exalted passions and heroical follies, which the antiquated
1362 XXII | Queen of Scots as a pious heroine, but those of an opposite
1363 XVIII| heureux homicide Et d'un heros guerrier, fait un Chretien
1364 XXIV | joining, in some measure, of heterogeneals, such as a dissertation
1365 XVIII| Il defend a nos mains cet heureux homicide Et d'un heros guerrier,
1366 II | in the meeting. The women hid their faces behind their
1367 IX | new peers who compose the Higher House receive nothing but
1368 XXII | which is given the dean is highly derogatory to his genius.
1369 IV | to employ the titles of "highness" and "excellency." William
1370 X | There have been thirty highnesses of the same name, all whose
1371 I | have none like that thou hintest at among us," replied he. "
1372 XVIII| applauded in Shakspeare. are hissed at in these writers; and
1373 Int | after his return he became historiographer of France, and gentleman
1374 XIII | Locke, Bayle, Spinoza, Hobbes, the Lord Shaftesbury, Collins,
1375 XIX | our unfortunate Battle of Hochstet. Were the apartments but
1376 XXI | only stay and prop That holds the mighty frame of Nature
1377 III | freed tumultuously from the hole where it was fastened, the
1378 I | lordship, of eminence, and of holiness, which mere worms bestow
1379 V | under Queen Anne than the hollow noise of a sea whose billows
1380 XXI | peuple guerrier il recut les homages; Obei dans sa vie, a sa
1381 VIII | conquerors. By being unhappy at home, they triumphed over and
1382 XVIII| a nos mains cet heureux homicide Et d'un heros guerrier,
1383 XXIV | est temporis potius quam hominis (the fault is owing to the
1384 XIX | indeed, but married to the honest knave in whom he had reposed
1385 XI | These maidens are very honourably and virtuously instructed
1386 VIII | it deserves only to be hooted at. Methinks I see a crowd
1387 XVI | found out; Descartes, I say, hoped to discover in the stars,
1388 XXIV | Peter Delme, a Sir Richard Hopkins, a Sir Gilbert Heathcote,
1389 XII | time it must be upon the horizon of Ireland; for there had
1390 I | the brims of which were horizontal like those of our clergy.
1391 IX | unless they pay for them, the horses and carts of freemen. The
1392 I | to question my courteous host. I opened with that which
1393 XV | twenty-seven days, seven hours, forty-three minutes. It
1394 XV | the Almighty.~"Procedes huc, et non amplius."~(Thus
1395 XXII | understand, the title whereof is "Hudibras." The subject of it is the
1396 XVIII| all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied
1397 I | have more than once made to Huguenots. "My dear sir," said I, "
1398 I | politeness in the open, humane air of his countenance,
1399 VI | the divinity schools, and hums a song in chorus with ladies
1400 I | for I have not employed a hundredth part of the arguments which
1401 XXIII| Rhadamistus ready to perish for hunger. And the son of one of the
1402 XXIV | strike out any new thoughts, hunted after a new play of words,
1403 XIX | isone Horner, a sly fortune hunter, and the terror of all the
1404 IX | a right or privilege of hunting in the grounds of a citizen,
1405 XIII | substitute his own; and hurried away by that systematic
1406 XVII | Hartsocher also contested with Huygens the invention of a new method
1407 XXII | charge, le teint pale, et l'hypocondre enfle. La medisante Envie,
1408 XVIII| pretres menteurs benir l'hypocrisie; D'une indigne maitresse
1409 XIV | into the humour of forming hypotheses; and then philosophy was
1410 VIII | opposed the French Ministry; i.e., Cardinal Mazarin, in 1648.]~~
1411 XIII | possessing all abstract ideas-in a word, completely endued
1412 XXIII| Mademoiselle Le Couvreur ignominiously in the fields.~But be assured
1413 XXII | and in face, Here stood Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, Her
1414 XVIII| not imitate him; and the ill-success of Shakspeare's imitators
1415 X | name terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, "
1416 XIX | spread, that in his last illness, the surgeons had found
1417 XVIII| makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others
1418 I | whole city of London is illuminated; when the sky is in a blaze
1419 XIII | Malebranche, in his sublime illusions, not only admitted innate
1420 XX | palais magnifiques Y sont d'illustres faineants, Sans argent,
1421 XX | du joug qui les domine, Ils ont fait voeu de pauvrete,
1422 XIII | ignorant as I. Neither your imaginations nor mine are able to comprehend
1423 XV | vivify the planets, which imbibe in their course the several
1424 III | the principles they had imbibed, and followed by their gaolers,
1425 XIX | misanthrope or man-hater, in imitation of that of Moliere. All
1426 XVIII| ill-success of Shakspeare's imitators produces no other effect,
1427 II | Christianity without an immediate revelation, and added these
1428 XI | Circassian women have, from time immemorial, communicated the small-pox
1429 XVII | which was supposed to be immovable in every respect. They therefore
1430 XXI | image de son Dieu. Vil atome imparfait, qui croit, doute, dispute
1431 XIII | but to examine, calmly and impartially, whether the declaring that
1432 XV | subtile matter, since this is imperceptible to us; this matter goes
1433 XXII | a greater proportion of impertinence. He has been vastly lavish
1434 VI | not use Alexander half so impertinently as these treated King Charles
1435 XXI | convey into it the licentious impetuosity and fire of the English
1436 XXII | which is either languid or impetuous, has not yet acquired that
1437 XVI | not reflect directly by impinging against the solid parts
1438 XIII | declaring that matter can think, implies a contradiction; and whether
1439 II | Whosoever," says he, "shall implore Christ to enlighten him,
1440 XIII | nature; it is of little importance to religion, which only
1441 XVII | censure, they therefore imposed upon the world with greater
1442 XXI | business lies In nonsense and impossibilities. This made a whimsical philosopher
1443 XII | Speaking about the famous impostor Perkin, son to a converted
1444 XVIII| apish tricks of a lewd, impotent debauchee, who is quite
1445 XI | qualities with which it is impregnated. The pustules of the child
1446 II | which thy soul receives the impression formed by thyself? Much
1447 III | had signed a mittimus for imprisoning some Quakers. The sudden
1448 VII | but it has chosen a very improper season to make its appearance
1449 XXIV | knowledge of nature and the improvements of the arts. We may presume
1450 XVII | upon the world with greater impunity; and, as it is evident that
1451 XII | might perhaps, without the imputation of indecency, have been
1452 XIII | cause, what I can so easily impute to the only second cause
1453 XV | de Fontenelle should have imputed to this great philosopher
1454 IX | parts of Europe. The weak Ina, one of the tyrants of the
1455 XI | XI: On Inoculation~It is inadvertently affirmed in the Christian
1456 XXII | vent La quinteuse deesse incessamment repose, Le coeur gros de
1457 XVI | light which come and go incessantly, and which either transmit
1458 XVI | certain that there is a cubic inch of solid matter in the universe,
1459 XXII | it alludes to particular incidents. The clergy are there made
1460 XIII | always: and I am as little inclined as he could be to fancy
1461 Int | his most successful dramas including "Zaire," "Oedipe," "La Mort
1462 IX | year following. The annual income of the estates of a great
1463 XVII | many years, and are no less incomprehensible than the things we have
1464 VII | step, that his argument was inconclusive, and that the emperor should
1465 XXIV | greatest geniuses who have been incorporated into that body have sometimes
1466 III | money. However, they were incorruptible, which made him one day
1467 XII | without the imputation of indecency, have been allowed to clear
1468 XIII | philosophical, altogether independent of faith and revelation.
1469 Int | interests are to some extent indicated in the following "Letters,"
1470 X | the treasures of the West Indies; and a third into the Baltic,
1471 XVIII| benir l'hypocrisie; D'une indigne maitresse encenser les erreurs,
1472 XVI | the fifth blue, the sixth indigo, the seventh a violet-purple.
1473 XXIV | in. That of London mixes indiscriminately literature with physics;
1474 XX | the people in general are indispensably obliged to cultivate their
1475 XXI | was never so proud or so indolent as to lay aside the happy
1476 IV | Parliament the toleration and indulgence which they had refused when
1477 XVI | rainbow was considered as an inexplicable miracle. This philosopher
1478 XX | I have given of it is so inexpressive of the strength and delicate
1479 XIII | by a familiar genius must infallibly be either a knave or a madman,
1480 XXIV | great height even in its infancy. But Queen Anne being snatched
1481 XIV | with which youth had been infatuated for two thousand years.
1482 IX | that of the Peers, though inferior to it in dignity. The spiritual
1483 XXIV | however, I am far from inferring from hence that we are to
1484 VI | religion, and give the name of infidel to none but bankrupts. There
1485 XI | could succeed with none but infidels. However, it had the most
1486 XV | to light, to geometrical infinities; and, lastly, to chronology,
1487 XIX | brave, open-hearted, and inflamed with a spirit of contempt
1488 XVIII| astonish. The style is too much inflated, too unnatural, too closely
1489 XXIV | difficulty itself, and by that inflexibility of mind which is generally
1490 VII | think will God the Father inflict on those who refuse His
1491 XVII | equinoxes.~Clemens Alexandrinus informs us, that Chiron, who went
1492 IV | by an oath, and was never infringed. The new sovereign was at
1493 XVIII| composed a regular tragedy, and infused a spirit of elegance through
1494 XVIII| ame abattue, A des amis ingrats qui detournent la vue? La
1495 XI | quite left the country, the inhabitants of it are in as great trouble
1496 XV | unknown principle-a quality inherent in matter, the cause of
1497 XVI | these elementary rays has inherently in itself that which forms
1498 IV | no purpose.~William Penn inherited very large possessions,
1499 IV | his time. The first is, to injure no person upon a religious
1500 XIII | not expressly make use of injurious terms in his dispute with