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1501 XXIII| sensible of the barbarity and injustice which they object to in
1502 XIX | peasant, a very harmless, innocent creature, who enjoys a fine
1503 XXIII| which were exhibited very innocently every night before their
1504 XI | the history of the famed innoculation, which is mentioned with
1505 XIV | deny but that there are innumerable errors in the rest of Descartes'
1506 XI | years. This they did by inoculating in the body of a child a
1507 XXI | C'est la raison frivole, inquiete, orgueilleuse Des sages
1508 XIV | the tides should have been inquired into at the very instant
1509 XXIV | than merely to delight an inquisitive mind. Those ingenious and
1510 IV | moneys were at that time more insecure than those owing from the
1511 XVIII| erreurs en desirs Les mortels insenses promenent leur folie. Dans
1512 XXIII| foreigners are told of this insolent conduct, this contempt for
1513 V | superiority.~Moreover, they inspire very religiously their flock
1514 XVI | red colour; this wood will instantly be tinged red. But set it
1515 XII | King of England, at the instigation of the Duchess of Burgundy,
1516 XII | prevent those societies of men instituted to improve human reason
1517 XII | drawn up in the view of instructing rather than of pleasing;
1518 XXII | Italians, who have been our instructors in all the arts, and whom
1519 IX | delivered up by a public instrument the kingdom of England to
1520 III | clergyman who had been chiefly instrumental in bringing him to this
1521 XXIII| was casting the highest insult on the king and all the
1522 XV | to move must meet with an insuperable resistance.~With regard
1523 VIII | intended, nor what he did not intend. He levied troops by Act
1524 XXI | another man___." It is not my intent to give a commentary on
1525 XIV | these opinions!~"Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites."~
1526 VIII | of levity, not from any interested motives.~The English have
1527 XIII | Locke, which so far from interfering with religion, would of
1528 VIII | variance, and there was no intermediate power to reconcile them.
1529 XIV | him in his lifetime, and interred him as though he had been
1530 XXIII| merit, and censured for interring the celebrated actress Mrs.
1531 XIII | the school philosophers interrupt me with their arguments,
1532 V | succession among them hath been interrupted or not, or whether Bishop
1533 XVII | what point the ecliptic was intersected in his time, by the same
1534 XVII | equinoxes passes, and where it intersects at this time the ecliptic
1535 XXII | his genius. The former has interspersed his unaccountably fantastic
1536 XVII | there is no more than an interval of seven times seventy-two
1537 III | was torn to pieces by the intestine wars which three or four
1538 IV | gained over some of his intimates. He carried matters so far,
1539 XIX | same time that they were intolerable to read; and of which it
1540 XXII | wretched a use of it; he is an intoxicated philosopher who never wrote
1541 XX | trifles, and a passion for intrigue, were the divinities of
1542 XVIII| in his Venice Preserved, introduces Antonio the senator, and
1543 XVIII| murders it.~The custom of introducing love at random and at any
1544 Int | Introduction~Francois-Marie Arouet, known
1545 XXI | point, miserable, tu dors: Inutile a la terre, et mis au rang
1546 XV | universe, according to the invariable laws of mechanics.~It is
1547 III | and the clergy. Had his invectives been levelled against the
1548 III | been safe enough, but he inveighed against ecclesiastics. Fox
1549 XIV | applied this geometrical and inventive genius to dioptrics, which,
1550 XVII | Leibnitz was considered as the inventor of the differences or moments,
1551 IV | which reason he adhered so inviolably to King James, that a report
1552 V | banquet is ended withdraw to invoke the assistance of the Holy
1553 II | limb is often sensible to involuntary motions. Consequently He
1554 VIII | Other nations have been involved in as great calamities,
1555 II | Gospel truths, he may feel inwardly, such a one may be assured
1556 XXIII| Terence was excommunicated ipso facto; and added, that doubtless
1557 XIII | schoolmen arose, such as the Irrefragable Doctor, the Subtile Doctor,
1558 XIII | they themselves be proved irreligious? And indeed, what man can
1559 III | twenty-five years of age, irreproachable in his life and conduct,
1560 XIII | publicly that Boileau spake irreverently of Louis XIV., because he
1561 I | Mahometans imitated the Ishmaelites in their pilgrimages to
1562 XII | westward as the Caribbean Islands. Be this as it will, men
1563 XXI | his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for
1564 XIX | character in this comedy isone Horner, a sly fortune hunter,
1565 XIII | unhappily forgets at its issuing from the womb.~Father Malebranche,
1566 XIX | that great comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully
1567 XX | Qu'ay je donc vu dans l'Italie? Orgueil, astuce, et pauvrete,
1568 XVIII| had no more than moving, itinerant stages. Shakspeare, who
1569 XVIII| shining monsters of Shakspeare ive infinite more delight than
1570 XXI | sois homme, et sors de ton ivresse. L'homme est ne pour agir,
1571 XXII | been a mere babbler. The Jacobites consider Mary Queen of Scots
1572 XXII | little or no genius, and some Jansenists affirm Father Bourdaloue
1573 VIII | conquering. They are not only jealous of their own liberty, but
1574 IV | not to entertain the least jealousy one against the other.~William
1575 XIX | much as one low or coarse jest. The language is everywhere
1576 XX | par oisivete Et toujours jeunant par famine.~"Ces beaux lieux
1577 XXII | negligemment panchee Une jeune beaute non loin d'elle est
1578 XIX | Immediately he goes to the jewel among women, how he expected
1579 XIX | left all his money, his jewels, and everything he had in
1580 I | Jewish, that a great many Jews use the baptism of John
1581 XXII | pudeur, et rit de tout sans joie, De cent maux differens
1582 XIII | these properties may be joined to thought. As I therefore
1583 XXIV | prevents confusion, and the joining, in some measure, of heterogeneals,
1584 XVIII| Shakspeare's Julius Caesar the jokes of the Roman shoemakers
1585 XXI | sort, Le ciel a signale ce jour par des tempetes, Et la
1586 IV | came to London (though the journey was very long) purely to
1587 XVIII| promis les plus beaux de nos jours," &c.~It is in these detached
1588 II | out a strange, confused jumble of words (borrowed, as he
1589 XVIII| his fine verses. All your junior academical sophs, who set
1590 V | but imagine they are so jure divino; it is consequently
1591 IX | haute, moyenne, and basse justice-that is, a power to judge in
1592 IV | strongly, and he was obliged to justify himself in print. However,
1593 XXII | possesses all the delicacy, the justness, the choice, the good taste,
1594 VI | another Cato in presence of a juvenile, sprightly French graduate,
1595 XXIV | ship is to make with the keel in order to make its sailing
1596 XII | His father had been Lord Keeper, and himself was a great
1597 XVIII| his mistress' legs, who kicks and whips him. However,
1598 XVIII| affirm, that the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.~
1599 VII | sovereign, and seized upon the kingly dignity, to rise from the
1600 VIII | and the rest of the nation kiss the chains they are loaded
1601 XIX | their actions are those of knaves-a proof that he was perfectly
1602 IV | instead of falling upon his knees to ask his blessing, he
1603 III | prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished
1604 XXI | enigmes sacres, Auteurs du labirinthe, ou vous vous egarez. Allez
1605 IV | Holland, after having left labourers sufficient to take care
1606 XVII | Newton's Chronology~The labyrinth and abyss of infinity is
1607 XVIII| voeus. Demain vient, et nous laisse encore plus malheureux.
1608 II | faces and groaning in a most lamentable manner, he, partly from
1609 XXII | is filled; her bosom with lampoons. There Affectation, with
1610 XII | that the stars were small lamps which sometimes fell into
1611 IX | famous King William III.~The land-tax continues still upon the
1612 XIII | having shown that all the languages in the world are imperfect,
1613 XVIII| hauteurs; Et montrer les langueurs de son ame abattue, A des
1614 XXII | aside, Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; On the rich
1615 XVIII| which spreads a certain languor over the whole, that quite
1616 XIX | observe that this play is also larded with a petulant, litigious
1617 V | Father Courayer) wrote a book lately to prove the validity and
1618 VIII | advantage entirely to the later-viz., that the civil wars of
1619 XXII | a priest, and, like him, laughs at everything; but, in my
1620 I | for thee to refrain from laughter, when I answered all thy
1621 XIX | excellent player, and also Poet Laureate-a title which, how ridiculous
1622 XXII | impertinence. He has been vastly lavish of erudition, of smut, and
1623 IX | robbers was abolished by the lawful authority of kings and of
1624 V | make so many tyrants in lawn sleeves, but that the laws
1625 I | other people's account (for lawsuits are unknown among the Friends),
1626 XX | why our magistrates, our lawyers, our physicians, and a great
1627 V | colonels immediately upon their laying aside the academical gown;
1628 V | enacted by a set of profane laymen. A learned monk (Father
1629 XX | be to him; and this study leads naturally to that of polite
1630 XXIV | had a thousand things to learn of him.~The celebrated Dean
1631 XVII | equinoxes, or rather who learnt it from the Egyptians. Philosophers
1632 XVIII| audience more difficult to be leased, and writers more correct
1633 III | madman. He was equipped in leather from head to foot, and travelled
1634 III | once offer to pull off his leathern hat, upon which an officer
1635 IV | Being returned, after his leaving Cork, to the Vice-Admiral
1636 IX | send from time to time his legates thither to levy exorbitant
1637 XXI | le voir plein de vapeurs legeres, Soi-meme se bercer de ses
1638 VIII | of the Commons divide the legislative power under the king, but
1639 XVIII| and bites his mistress' legs, who kicks and whips him.
1640 III | one George Fox, born in Leicestershire, and son to a silk weaver,
1641 XII | time, he yet found so much leisure for study as to make himself
1642 XIII | mind went such prodigious lenghts, the people used to reason
1643 XIX | English have endeavoured to lessen the character of that great
1644 XX | disant Grands, Seuls dans leurs palais magnifiques Y sont
1645 XVII | the sap.~Hartsocher and Leuwenhoek disputed with each other
1646 III | Had his invectives been levelled against the soldiery only
1647 VIII | what he did not intend. He levied troops by Act of Parliament,
1648 I | should we fill with such levities as those I have mentioned
1649 VIII | against him merely out of levity, not from any interested
1650 IX | time his legates thither to levy exorbitant taxes. At last
1651 XVIII| all the apish tricks of a lewd, impotent debauchee, who
1652 XXIII| Father Le Brun's impertinent libel against the stage is seen
1653 XVIII| and the Golden Age of the liberal arts; Otway, in his Venice
1654 XX | Pour les petits, sans liberte, Martyrs du joug qui les
1655 XVII | equinox to the middle of Libra; our summer solstice to
1656 XXI | chute, Qui nous dit je suis libre, en nous montrant ses fers,
1657 XXI | translator to convey into it the licentious impetuosity and fire of
1658 XIX | has these lines:~"Earth lie light on him, for he Laid
1659 II | perceive so much as one lift up his eyes to look at me.
1660 XVIII| which the English tongue is lifted up, raises the genius at
1661 XIII | Shaftesbury, Collins, nor Toland lighted up the firebrand of discord
1662 XIII | endued with the most sublime lights, which it unhappily forgets
1663 II | When thou movest one of thy limbs, is it moved by thy own
1664 XVI | all fall upon a piece of linen, or a sheet of white paper,
1665 XXII | wrote but when he was in liquor.~Dean Swift is Rabelais
1666 XXII | of eighteen, Practised to lisp, and hang the head aside,
1667 II | doubt and uncertainty we listen patiently to everyone; we
1668 III | a-laughing, but they afterwards listened to him; and as enthusiasm
1669 XIII | That divine entered the lists against him, but was defeated;
1670 XXII | Evangile a la main. Sur un lit plein de fleurs negligemment
1671 XVIII| to the writer who gives a literal version; who by rendering
1672 XXII | than to translate a poet literally:~"Umbriel, a l'instant,
1673 Int | the dominant and typical literary figure. Every department
1674 XIV | expired in the midst of some literati who were his enemies, and
1675 XIV | inter vos tantas componere lites."~Virgil, Eclog. III.~"'
1676 XIX | larded with a petulant, litigious old woman (a relation of
1677 XXII | work which paints in such lively and natural colours the
1678 II | affections may deserve; if thou livest in God, thou actest, thou
1679 I | least offense, and that you'll do me the honour to inform
1680 XIX | for he Laid many a heavy load in thee."~Sir John having
1681 VIII | kiss the chains they are loaded with. The French are of
1682 XXII | entitled the "Rape of the Lock," which I just now translated
1683 IV | twenty.~[Footnote 1: Thomas Loe.]~Being returned, after
1684 XIII | genius, or was a more acute logician than Mr. Locke, and yet
1685 XXI | dire en grondant aux plus lointains rivages Que l'effroi de
1686 XXI | pretendu qui leur donne des loix, Ce roi des animaux, combien
1687 XXIII| person who may discover the longitude, they should never have
1688 XVIII| mon unique asile Apres de longs transports, c'est un sommeil
1689 XII | copper plates, oil-painting, looking-glasses; the art of restoring, in
1690 VIII | whom it behoved them to let loose upon their neighbours, for
1691 XVIII| force its nature, and to lop and dress it in the same
1692 XVIII| nearly contemporary with Lope de Vega, and he created,
1693 IX | villains or bondsmen of lords-that is, a kind of cattle bought
1694 XXII | Ecoute sans entendre, et lorgne en regardant. Qui rougit
1695 XIII | I confess that it is my lot to be animated with one
1696 XIII | communicate it to others. It was loudly exclaimed that Mr. Locke
1697 Int | the Jesuits in the College Louis-le-Grand. He began writing verse
1698 VIII | figuratively Cavillers, or lovers of contradiction, was a
1699 XIX | of, and a mistress that loves him with the utmost excess
1700 XIX | meet with so much as one low or coarse jest. The language
1701 V | its holy privileges. The lower House of Convocation ( kind
1702 XIX | Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves persons of
1703 III | give up thyself to follow lust and vanity, surely great
1704 VII | not whimsical enough that Luther, Calvin, and Zuinglius,
1705 XXII | effeminacy), in Boileau's "Lutrin."~Methinks I now have given
1706 VI | cannot emulate the splendid luxury of bishops, they exclaim
1707 XXI | plein d'erreur, Ce n'est pas ma raison c'est la tienne,
1708 XIII | St. Bernard, as Father Mabillon confesses, taught that the
1709 VII | that he is a mere reasoning machine.~It is he who wrote a book
1710 XXIII| in us, for having buried Mademoiselle Le Couvreur ignominiously
1711 XII | haunted with sprites, by the magic and curious arts of the
1712 XII | there may not be a kind of magnetic power which operates between
1713 XX | Seuls dans leurs palais magnifiques Y sont d'illustres faineants,
1714 VII | great part of Europe, that Mahomet, though so ignorant, should
1715 VI | mankind. There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian transact
1716 I | time, in like manner as the Mahometans imitated the Ishmaelites
1717 XXII | Ill-nature, like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black
1718 XI | precious merchandise. These maidens are very honourably and
1719 XVIII| arretez; Il defend a nos mains cet heureux homicide Et
1720 XIV | as I observed in my last, maintains that the soul is the same
1721 XVIII| hypocrisie; D'une indigne maitresse encenser les erreurs, Ramper
1722 XXII | eloquence, that plain but majestic air which history requires.
1723 XXIII| every night before their majesties. He quoted the authority
1724 IX | themselves the nobility. The major part of men in Europe were
1725 XXII | l'entour, Et le souffle mal sain de leur aride haleine
1726 XVIII| Supporter, ou finir mon malheur et mon sort? Qui suis je?
1727 XVIII| nous laisse encore plus malheureux. Quelle est l'erreur, helas!
1728 XVIII| promenent leur folie. Dans des malheurs presents, dans l'espoir
1729 XIX | more merit than the witty malice of the most experienced
1730 XIX | has drawn a misanthrope or man-hater, in imitation of that of
1731 XIX | is this:-A captain of a man-of-war, who is very brave, open-hearted,
1732 V | sectarists. Multae sunt mansiones in domo patris mei (in my
1733 V | Father's house are many mansions). An Englishman, as one
1734 XIII | consist of persons employed in manual labour, who will never know
1735 IX | conquered, whence sprung those margraves, those peers, those barons,
1736 XII | upon the Princess Henrietta Maria, daughter to Henry IV.,
1737 XV | uncertain supposition of mariners, who computed a degree to
1738 VIII | of patience and humility. Marious and Sylla, Caesar and Pompey,
1739 XI | die of it, would not be marked, nor be ever afflicted with
1740 XVIII| the trees of the Garden of Marli.~~
1741 XIX | recovers his casket, and marries his page. You will observe
1742 XV | when it is nearer Venus and Mars, because the fluid that
1743 XX | les petits, sans liberte, Martyrs du joug qui les domine,
1744 XXII | The Jacobites consider Mary Queen of Scots as a pious
1745 IV | America, to the south of Maryland. Thus was a Quaker raised
1746 XI | diffuses through the whole mass of blood the qualities with
1747 I | neither wolves, tigers, nor mastiffs, but men and Christians.
1748 XIII | has not told us of what materials the spring of this clock
1749 XI | common to all nations, I mean maternal tenderness and interest.~
1750 VII | the Unitarians argued more mathematically than we do. But the most
1751 XV | discovered a new property of matter-one of the secrets of the Creator-and
1752 XVIII| nos premiers momens nous maudissons l'aurore, Et de la nuit
1753 XXIII| the spectator is not the mausoleums of the English kings, but
1754 XII | mankind, like Rochefoucauld's "Maxims," nor written upon a sceptical
1755 XXIII| because he, who was Pontifex Maximus, presumed to write a tragedy
1756 I | but these thou thyself mayest peruse in the Exposition
1757 VII | be wanting in respect to me-first, in not doing honour sufficient
1758 I | taking part in a frugal meal, which began and ended with
1759 IV | thee'd" and "thou'd" by the meanest of his subjects, who never
1760 XXI | had applauded the Usurper (meaning Oliver). "Sir," replied
1761 XV | But after Mr. Picard had measured the earth exactly, by tracing
1762 XVII | the art of numbering and measuring exactly a thing whose existence
1763 I | in their pilgrimages to Mecca. Jesus indeed submitted
1764 XII | the human mind. It is to a mechanical instinct, which is found
1765 XVI | works, severally saw the mechanism of the springs of the world.
1766 IX | These Druids pretended to be mediators between God and man. They
1767 XXII | et l'hypocondre enfle. La medisante Envie, est assise aupres
1768 XV | he fell into a profound meditation on that gravity, the cause
1769 V | breaking the windows of some meeting-houses and the demolishing of a
1770 IX | prevent their nocturnal meetings, or only to try, by this
1771 XXII | bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head, Two handmaids
1772 V | mansiones in domo patris mei (in my Father's house are
1773 XXII | ever gave birth to. He has mellowed the harsh sounds of the
1774 XIV | the earth is shaped like a melon, or of an oblique figure;
1775 XII | art of making bread, of melting and preparing metals, of
1776 XXI | devots Condamne par eux memes a l'ennui du repos. Ce mystique
1777 XXII | murderer. Thus the English have memorials of the several reigns, but
1778 XVIII| douceurs du sommeil! On nous menace, on dit que cette courte
1779 XXII | Quixote, it is our "Satire Menippee" blended together. I never
1780 XVIII| cette vie, De nos pretres menteurs benir l'hypocrisie; D'une
1781 XVII | to square the hyperbola. Mercator published a demonstration
1782 XI | and maintain such precious merchandise. These maidens are very
1783 XV | exactly, by tracing that meridian which redounds so much to
1784 XXII | could display their various merits.~~
1785 Int | de Cesar," "Alzire," and "Merope." His chief contribution
1786 XII | of melting and preparing metals, of building houses, and
1787 XIV | very shining, ingenious metaphors and figures. Nature had
1788 XII | for there had the like meteor strong influence before."~
1789 IV | Quaker, he employed all the methods that prudence could suggest
1790 XVII | before the Peloponnesian war, Methon observed that the point
1791 XVIII| tranquile. On s'endort, et tout meurt, mais un affreux reveil
1792 XXII | Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the
1793 I | that cometh after me is mightier that I, whose shoes I am
1794 XXII | environs la fievre et la migraine. Sur un riche sofa derriere
1795 XV | contain but sixty English miles, whereas it consists in
1796 XIV | his memory.~He embraced a military life for some time, and
1797 II | when we ourselves have milk enough for it? These mercenary
1798 X | s warning, lent him five millions, whereby he was enabled
1799 XI | informed that a daughter of Milton was living, but in miserable
1800 III | The vulgar attempted to mimic them; they trembled, they
1801 XVIII| and out of his senses. He mimics a bull and a dog, and bites
1802 XVIII| erreurs, Ramper sous un ministre, adorer ses hauteurs; Et
1803 XXIII| made Warden of the Royal Mint. Mr. Congrefe has a considerable
1804 XVI | considered as an inexplicable miracle. This philosopher guessed
1805 III | thing now wanting was a few miracles, and accordingly they wrought
1806 XXI | Inutile a la terre, et mis au rang des morts. Ton esprit
1807 V | productive of no greater mischief than the breaking the windows
1808 XX | diables; Et les habitans miserables Sont damnes dans le Paradis."~~
1809 XXIII| reduced to the extremes of misery had he not been patronised
1810 XXIV | genius in this age had the misfortune to be called Chapelain or
1811 XXI | New Rome in such a tempest missed her king, And from obeying
1812 IV | Both resolved to go upon missions into foreign countries,
1813 XVI | solid body. But this is a mistake, for Sir Isaac taught the
1814 XIV | was valuable even in his mistakes. He deceived himself, but
1815 XXI | obscurement eclaircir vos misteres, Et courez dans l'ecole
1816 XVII | in this manner would have mistook just fifty-four years; hence
1817 VI | tavern, or to see their mistresses.~Though the Episcopal and
1818 XXI | supernatural gift that makes a mite Think he's the image of
1819 III | the moment he had signed a mittimus for imprisoning some Quakers.
1820 XXIV | range in. That of London mixes indiscriminately literature
1821 IX | On The Government~That mixture in the English Government,
1822 XV | fall upon the earth from a moderate height, would go; and how
1823 XIII | more against the sage, the modest philosophy of Mr. Locke,
1824 XIII | presumed to advance, but very modestly, the following words: "We
1825 XIII | with an air of the greatest modesty, the history of it. Mr.
1826 XXI | pourroit le nier, poursuis tu? Moi peut-etre Ce maitre pretendu
1827 XVIII| son cours. De nos premiers momens nous maudissons l'aurore,
1828 XVII | would be a kind of universal monarchy, with which the principle
1829 XXIII| exhibited in convents and monasteries; that we dishonour sports
1830 XXII | raions que repand l'oeil du monde La Deesse aux Vapeurs a
1831 IX | bulls, and reinforced by monks, they made even kings tremble,
1832 XXIII| he not been patronised by Monsieur Fagon.~But the circumstance
1833 XX | plus beaux presens.~"Les monsignors, soy disant Grands, Seuls
1834 XVIII| beauties only. The shining monsters of Shakspeare ive infinite
1835 XXI | dit je suis libre, en nous montrant ses fers, Et dont l'oeil,
1836 XVIII| adorer ses hauteurs; Et montrer les langueurs de son ame
1837 XVIII| the tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice, a most tender
1838 XII | historian, and a wit.~His moral essays are greatly esteemed,
1839 X | extraction. These think it morally impossible that the son
1840 VI | graduate, who bawls for a whole morning together in the divinity
1841 XXII | With store of prayers for mornings, nights, and noons Her hand
1842 XVIII| d'erreurs en desirs Les mortels insenses promenent leur
1843 XXI | terre, et mis au rang des morts. Ton esprit enerve croupit
1844 | mostly
1845 XI | repeat their lesson to their mothers, in the same manner as little
1846 II | sensible to involuntary motions. Consequently He who created
1847 XIX | ever able to discover the motive which had prompted our ministry
1848 VIII | not from any interested motives.~The English have doubtless
1849 XX | flexible a disposition, may be moulded into such a variety of shapes,
1850 XV | the summits of the highest mountains, why, said Sir Isaac, may
1851 II | nose and partly from his mouth, threw out a strange, confused
1852 II | remarkable words: "When thou movest one of thy limbs, is it
1853 IX | such thing here as haute, moyenne, and basse justice-that
1854 V | the country of sectarists. Multae sunt mansiones in domo patris
1855 XV | number is the square of sixty multiplied by fifteen. Bodies, therefore,
1856 VI | unintelligible to him) are mumbled over his child. Others retire
1857 XXIII| imitate Louis XIV. in his munificence with regard to the arts
1858 XXII | prostitute, an adulteress, a murderer. Thus the English have memorials
1859 I | the seas, merely because murderers clothed in scarlet, and
1860 XVIII| over the whole, that quite murders it.~The custom of introducing
1861 XXII | air renfrogne Chercher en murmurant la caverne profonde, Ou
1862 XIX | comic poet. Such Italian musicians as despise Lully are themselves
1863 XV | vulgar think there is nothing mysterious in it. He said to himself,
1864 XXI | memes a l'ennui du repos. Ce mystique encloitre, fier de son indolence
1865 XVIII| Antonio the senator, and Naki, his courtesan, in the midst
1866 | namely
1867 XIII | the extent or rather the narrow limits of human knowledge.
1868 IV | peopled this colony. The natives of the country, instead
1869 XXIV | but happy it were, would naturalists and geometricians unite,
1870 XV | effect which I discovered in Nature-a certain and indisputable
1871 IX | justice could be done to human nature-before mankind were conscious that
1872 XXI | think, 'cause they have naught to do. But thoughts are
1873 X | by insensible degrees the naval power, which gives the English
1874 I | sealing it with our yea or nay; and the judges believe
1875 XVIII| la mort, ou de l'etre au neant. Dieux cruels, s'il en est,
1876 XV | matter combined with their nearness. From hence Sir Isaac, rising
1877 I | regularly built house, vastly neat, but without the least pomp
1878 II | in God. After this thou needest only but open thine eyes
1879 XX | shapes, that the monarch needs but command and he is immediately
1880 XXIV | of being applauded and neglected.~ ~ ~
1881 XXII | Sur un lit plein de fleurs negligemment panchee Une jeune beaute
1882 XXI | they are languid through negligence, and often disfigured with
1883 XVII | historians were the most negligent in setting down the eras:
1884 XVIII| branches at random, and spreads nequally, but with great vigour.
1885 XIV | exists in the air; but a Newtonian asserts that it comes from
1886 V | through the flames to old Nick, as Rabelais says, and for
1887 XXI | Rampe, s'eleve, tombe, et nie encore sa chute, Qui nous
1888 XXI | maitre; Qui pourroit le nier, poursuis tu? Moi peut-etre
1889 XXII | of prayers for mornings, nights, and noons Her hand is filled;
1890 XVIII| question! Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer The
1891 | nobody
1892 IX | did this to prevent their nocturnal meetings, or only to try,
1893 XXI | creatures here, and with his nod gives laws This self-named
1894 XV | is evidently seen why the nodes of the moon perform their
1895 XVIII| eternite! Tout coeur a ton seul nom se glace epouvante. Eh!
1896 XX | l'Inquisition Veut qu'on nomme religion Mais qu'ici nous
1897 XX | religion Mais qu'ici nous nommons folie.~"La Nature en vain
1898 IV | annulling the laws made against Nonconformists, in order to have an opportunity,
1899 XXII | for mornings, nights, and noons Her hand is filled; her
1900 X | the Baltic, to prevent the Northern Powers from coming to an
1901 XIV | are these opinions!~"Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere
1902 Int | commentary on Corneille is notable. His scientific and philosophic
1903 Int | father was a well-to-do notary, and Francois was educated
1904 Int | writing verse early, and was noted for his freedom of speech,
1905 XIV | unintelligible to him. But notwithstanding this, these great men are
1906 XV | exhale from them merely to nourish and vivify the planets,
1907 XVI | after so many philosophical novelties.~Till Antonio de Dominis
1908 Int | Voltaire, was born at Paris, November 21, 1694. His father was
1909 XII | the least read, I mean his Novum Scientiarum Organum. This
1910 XVIII| maudissons l'aurore, Et de la nuit qui vient nous attendons
1911 XVIII| du soin qui nous devore, Nul de nous ne voudroit recommencer
1912 XVII | calculation. It is the art of numbering and measuring exactly a
1913 II | He then poured forth a numberless multitude of Scripture texts
1914 II | abandon our babe to mercenary nurses, when we ourselves have
1915 XXI | Hercules lay dead, With ruined oaks and pines about him spread.
1916 I | to the laws respect and obedience.~"Our apparel is also somewhat
1917 I | infamous falsehood, their most obedient humble servants. It is to
1918 XXI | guerrier il recut les homages; Obei dans sa vie, a sa mort adore,
1919 XX | command and he is immediately obeyed. The English generally think,
1920 XXI | missed her king, And from obeying fell to worshipping. On
1921 XV | motion? But in case the moon obeys this principle (whatever
1922 XIV | figure; at London it has an oblate one. A Cartesian declares
1923 V | with the ladies, commonly oblige a bishop to confine himself
1924 XIV | shaped like a melon, or of an oblique figure; at London it has
1925 XVII | consequently, authors being not so obnoxious to censure, they therefore
1926 IV | longer considered him as an obscure sectary, but as a very great
1927 XXI | vous vous egarez. Allez obscurement eclaircir vos misteres,
1928 V | this time reduced (in the obscurity of their respective parishes)
1929 III | never swear." The justice, observing he "thee'd" and "thou'd"
1930 VIII | singularity of the expression occasioned a loud laugh; but this gentleman,
1931 V | parishes) to the melancholy occupation of praying for the prosperity
1932 XXIV | prescribed to themselves occupations of a quite different kind
1933 XXI | croit entr'eux et l'Ange, occuper le milieu, Et pense etre
1934 XXII | esprit toujours trouble, L'oceil charge, le teint pale, et
1935 Int | dramas including "Zaire," "Oedipe," "La Mort de Cesar," "Alzire,"
1936 XIX | history have made sacred. Oedipus, Electra, and such-like
1937 XXI | fell to worshipping. On Oeta's top thus Hercules lay
1938 XV | that its very name would offend; and, therefore, this philosopher,
1939 I | will not give you the least offense, and that you'll do me the
1940 IV | be without arms, either offensive or defensive; for a body
1941 III | of peace, he did not once offer to pull off his leathern
1942 XVIII| delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient
1943 IX | the king ordains that his officers shall not henceforward seize
1944 II | preach to the brethren. These offices are all of too tender a
1945 XVI | when oiled, because the oil, by filling its pores, makes
1946 XII | engraving on copper plates, oil-painting, looking-glasses; the art
1947 XVI | when dry, transmits it when oiled, because the oil, by filling
1948 XXI | boundless universe. So charming ointments make an old witch fly, And
1949 XX | pauvrete, Priant Dieu par oisivete Et toujours jeunant par
1950 XXI | how many lords has he?"~Oldham, a little altered.~The Lord
1951 XVII | Greeks before they counted by Olympiads followed the method of the
1952 XXIV | well satisfied, had they omitted I know not what dissertation
1953 XXIII| and have been glad to see one-half of mankind cut the other
1954 VI | sects are the two prevailing ones in Great Britain, yet all
1955 XIX | man-of-war, who is very brave, open-hearted, and inflamed with a spirit
1956 XXIII| to cast a blemish on the opera, or to excommunicate Signor
1957 VI | of the Romish Church. No operas, plays, or concerts are
1958 XVI | upon the other, in order to operate such a transmission or reflection,
1959 XII | of magnetic power which operates between the earth and heavy
1960 XIII | revelation. Mr. Locke's opponents needed but to examine, calmly
1961 IX | once a terror to them, to oppose them to the Commons, since
1962 XVIII| sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them? To die! to sleep!
1963 III | upon the throne; and, being oppressed, thou hast reason to know
1964 XVI | XVI: On Sir Isaac Newton's Optics~The philosophers of the
1965 XIII | little sunk the credit of his oracles. Afterwards a thousand schoolmen
1966 XXI | la Terre, au milieu des orages, Tel d'un peuple guerrier
1967 II | forbid we should presume to ordain anyone to receive the Holy
1968 IX | By Article XXI., the king ordains that his officers shall
1969 XVII | grounds his opinion on the ordinary course of Nature, and on
1970 V | and succession of English ordinations. This book was forbid in
1971 XIII | exists before or after the organisation of our bodies. But I confess
1972 XII | mean his Novum Scientiarum Organum. This is the scaffold with
1973 XX | je donc vu dans l'Italie? Orgueil, astuce, et pauvrete, Grands
1974 XXI | raison frivole, inquiete, orgueilleuse Des sages animaux, rivale
1975 XVIII| English had been hitherto ormed to produce irregular beauties
1976 XXIV | who would have been the ornament and protector of that academy.
1977 VII | is related of a certain orthodox bishop, who in order to
1978 XVIII| remember that in the tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice, a most
1979 | ours
1980 XVIII| courbe sous la main qui m'outrage, Supporter, ou finir mon
1981 XVIII| The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms
1982 I | reason of our not using the outward sword is, that we are neither
1983 IV | who, like them, as much overdid some things as he was short
1984 XV | time of the Deluge a comet overflowed the terrestrial globe. And
1985 III | thy native country; to be overruled as well as to rule and sit
1986 XVIII| though with an irregular pace. The first English writer
1987 VI | the breaking up of this pacific and free assembly, some
1988 XXII | volume, and that, after much pains and trouble, you would have
1989 XIX | lives and their follies, and painted them with the strongest
1990 XXII | believe that a work which paints in such lively and natural
1991 IV | Elizabeth, the Princess Palatine, aunt to George I. of Great
1992 XXIII| honour of holding up his pall. Go into Westminster Abbey,
1993 XXII | to be honoured with the palm; but happy the writer who
1994 XXII | plaint avec molesse, et se pame avec art."~"Umbriel, a dusky,
1995 XXII | plein de fleurs negligemment panchee Une jeune beaute non loin
1996 XVIII| poor man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law'
1997 XIII | themselves are seized with a panic fear, and communicate it
1998 XX | famine.~"Ces beaux lieux du Pape benis Semblent habitez par
1999 XV | eccentric, and so near to parabolas, that certain comets must
2000 XX | miserables Sont damnes dans le Paradis."~~
2001 XVI | would demonstrate all these paradoxes, and anatomise a single