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2002 XXII | un riche sofa derriere un paravent Loin des flambeaux, du bruit,
2003 V | obscurity of their respective parishes) to the melancholy occupation
2004 V | or not, or whether Bishop Parker was consecrated (as it is
2005 XXII | Afectation qui grassaie en parlant, Ecoute sans entendre, et
2006 XVIII| extremitez, Mais le scrupule parle, et nous crie, arretez;
2007 XXII | flambeaux, du bruit, des parleurs et du vent La quinteuse
2008 VII | England than merely an Arian parson.~You see that opinions are
2009 XXI | Besides, Boileau was very partial both in his encomiums and
2010 V | absolutely necessary for both parties to call in religion on this
2011 VII | doctor a great number of partisans, and lost him the See of
2012 XXI | plein d'erreur, Ce n'est pas ma raison c'est la tienne,
2013 XXII | Jesuits in France declare Pascal to have been a man of little
2014 XVIII| Demeure, il faut choisir et passer a l'instant De la vie a
2015 XVII | colure of the equinoxes passes, and where it intersects
2016 XVIII| drawn) acquired a right of passing for sublime. Most of the
2017 XXIII| Henry IV. of France, were passionately fond of them.~One Mr. Prynne,
2018 XVIII| cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope
2019 XIV | France; paid the fees of his patent, which was sold at that
2020 II | and uncertainty we listen patiently to everyone; we even allow
2021 VIII | had no such balance. The patricians and plebeians in Rome were
2022 XXIII| Dr. Swift is Dean of St. Patrick in Dublin, and is more revered
2023 X | the same name, all whose patrimony consisted only in their
2024 V | Multae sunt mansiones in domo patris mei (in my Father's house
2025 XXIII| of misery had he not been patronised by Monsieur Fagon.~But the
2026 XVIII| mortal coil, Must give us pause. There 's the respect That
2027 IX | king, then the whole nation pays, every man in proportion
2028 IV | degrees a friendship with the peaceable Quakers. They loved these
2029 XIX | particularly to a little female peasant, a very harmless, innocent
2030 XII | French livres, to lose his peerage and his dignity of Chancellor;
2031 XIII | the sun was greater than Peloponnesus, that snow was black, and
2032 XIX | as to be confident she is Penelope, and his false friend a
2033 XIV | employed all the sagacity and penetration of his genius, in searching
2034 VI | reduced him to a state of penitence and mortification, so that
2035 I | best pieces that ever was penned by man; and as our adversaries
2036 IX | Rome, to pay St. Peter's penny (equivalent very near to
2037 XXI | pour agir, et tu pretens penser?" &c.~The original runs
2038 XXI | faire? Il pense. Non, tu ne penses point, miserable, tu dors:
2039 XXII | She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and
2040 IV | American merchants came and peopled this colony. The natives
2041 I | London. Being come into it, I perceived a small but regularly built
2042 XIII | that faculty of feeling, perceiving, and thinking, which we
2043 XIII | faculties of sensation and perception, which you call instinct
2044 XIII | same sensations, the same perceptions as we; they have memory,
2045 XXI | trouble et faux, croit percer l'univers. Allez, reverends
2046 XVIII| die! to sleep! To sleep; perchance to dream! Ay, there's the
2047 XXI | vos riens scholastiques, Peres de visions, et d'enigmes
2048 XIX | greatest coquette and the most perfidious of her sex, and he is so
2049 XV | of this orbit. The moon performs its revolution in that orbit
2050 XV | a little nearer in their Perihelia; the earth's velocity, for
2051 XXIII| of Rhadamistus ready to perish for hunger. And the son
2052 I | repining, would certainly not permit us to cross the seas, merely
2053 IV | Penn gave God thanks for permitting him so suffer to early in
2054 XXIII| the nation has erected to perpetuate the memory of those illustrious
2055 XVII | others disputed with Mr. Perrault that of the circulation
2056 XXIV | Colletet, Cassaigne, Faret, Perrin, Cotin, our first academicians,
2057 XVIII| with our ribbons and our perruques. The ladies who adorn the
2058 III | non si chiavava,1 began to persecute these new converts. The
2059 III | will soon punish thee for persecuting His saints." This magistrate,
2060 XI | considerably the seraglios of Persia and Turkey.~A trading nation
2061 XI | the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and of all those
2062 XXII | they are vastly clear and perspicuous; besides, most of his subjects
2063 V | numbers of Dissenters of all persuasions, that not a twentieth part
2064 XXIV | devote themselves to that pertinacious study, the mathematics.~
2065 XIX | little pleasure from the perusal of Aristophanes and Plautus,
2066 XXIV | compliments. The gentleman perused one or two of them, but
2067 XX | is under a necessity of perusing such authors as treat of
2068 XXII | rechigne, Va d'une aile pesante et d'un air renfrogne Chercher
2069 XX | sans domestiques.~"Pour les petits, sans liberte, Martyrs du
2070 XIX | play is also larded with a petulant, litigious old woman (a
2071 XX | pauvrete, Grands complimens, peu de bonte Et beaucoup de
2072 XXI | le nier, poursuis tu? Moi peut-etre Ce maitre pretendu qui leur
2073 XV | plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed
2074 IV | Penn, who there founded Philadelphia, now the most flourishing
2075 XXI | from attempting to examine philosophically into these verses, to lay
2076 I | himself was spoken to in such phrases as these: 'I love thee,' '
2077 XXIII| of the mathematics, for physic, for researches into antiquity,
2078 XII | philosophy, nor with the several physical experiments which have been
2079 X | themselves of Savoy and Piedmont, were upon the point of
2080 XXI | wings each heavy sot can pierce The limits of the boundless
2081 XXI | uncut fall for his funeral pile: About his palace their
2082 IX | monarch who submitted, in his pilgrimage to Rome, to pay St. Peter'
2083 I | the Ishmaelites in their pilgrimages to Mecca. Jesus indeed submitted
2084 II | to stands near the famous pillar called The Monument. The
2085 VIII | which he is only the chief pilot. The civil wars of France
2086 XXI | dead, With ruined oaks and pines about him spread. Nature
2087 XXII | Spleen, Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome, And in
2088 VIII | never rise to so exalted a pitch of glory, nor will its end
2089 I | Christ, not of John." I pitied very much the sincerity
2090 V | they owe their dignity to a pitiful law enacted by a set of
2091 XV | 1666, upon account of the Plague, to a solitude near Cambridge;
2092 XIX | gentleman who led a life of plainness and simplicity. I answered,
2093 XXII | le rouge et le fard, Se plaint avec molesse, et se pame
2094 XVIII| presents, dans l'espoir des plaisirs Nous ne vivons jamais, nous
2095 XII | written upon a sceptical plan, Like Montaigne's "Essays,"
2096 XV | the sun (the centre of the planetary system) attracts them all
2097 XVIII| resembles a tufted tree planted by the hand of Nature, that
2098 XII | printing, engraving on copper plates, oil-painting, looking-glasses;
2099 XV | his time, seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena;
2100 XIX | perusal of Aristophanes and Plautus, and for this reason because
2101 XIX | that drew crowds to the play-house, at the same time that they
2102 IX | tyrants. The priests soon played a part among them. Before
2103 XIX | Cibber, who is an excellent player, and also Poet Laureate-a
2104 XVIII| whips him. However, the players have struck these buffooneries (
2105 XIX | tongue, and to frequent the playhouse every night. I receive but
2106 XXII | nation, they laugh at the pleasant and diverting touches which
2107 XVIII| and, from an endeavour to please, quite ruined a masterpiece
2108 XIII | But why may not God, if He pleases, communicate to our more
2109 XI | voluptuous artifices the pleasures of their disdainful masters
2110 I | in a plain coat without pleats in the sides, or buttons
2111 XXII | qu'elle est la proie; Et pleine de sante sous le rouge et
2112 IX | think it beneath them to plough the lands which enrich them,
2113 IX | ecclesiastical tyrants and of plunderers entitled barons, had been
2114 I | ridiculous as to put the plural number for the singular.
2115 XII | several. He made a kind of pneumatic engine, by which he guessed
2116 I | sides, or buttons on the pockets and sleeves; and had on
2117 XXII | passages in certain of their poems, and boast of philosophers
2118 XXI | pretensions to it, and sought for points and conceits instead of
2119 VIII | the Emperor Henry VII., poisoned by his chaplain at his receiving
2120 VII | England, but in Holland and Poland. The celebrated Sir Isaac
2121 XXII | senses, and frequently the politest company. The former, indeed,
2122 IX | happy usurper and great politician, who pretended to love the
2123 XII | truly great man. And those politicians and conquerors (and all
2124 IV | very great man. The king's politics on this occasion agreed
2125 IX | an arbitrary subsidy or poll-tax, but a real tax on the lands,
2126 XIX | famous Castle of Blenheim, a ponderous and lasting monument of
2127 XXIII| but because he, who was Pontifex Maximus, presumed to write
2128 III | where it was fastened, the populace went and searched for the
2129 XIV | schools, and the prejudices of popular superstition. At last his
2130 XVI | that examining the vast porosity of bodies, every particle
2131 XXIII| discovered which glanced at the porter of some man in power. Mr.
2132 XIII | declared that the soul was a portion of the substance of God:
2133 X | the English; a second to Porto Bello, to dispossess the
2134 XIII | had declared, in the most positive terms, what the soul of
2135 XIII | know nothing, I maintain positively that matter cannot think.
2136 IV | Penn inherited very large possessions, part of which consisted
2137 I | with him, since there is no possibility of convincing an enthusiast.
2138 X | two hundred ships of war. Posterity will very probably be surprised
2139 XXIV | enough. Vitium est temporis potius quam hominis (the fault
2140 II | inspired by the Lord." He then poured forth a numberless multitude
2141 XXI | maitre; Qui pourroit le nier, poursuis tu? Moi peut-etre Ce maitre
2142 X | useful to a nation; a lord, powdered in the tip of the mode,
2143 III | should be whipped there. Fox praised the Lord all the way he
2144 XXI | verses embroidered with praises, reproached the poet for
2145 I | which began and ended with a prayer to God, I began to question
2146 XXII | white arrayed; With store of prayers for mornings, nights, and
2147 V | melancholy occupation of praying for the prosperity of the
2148 I | texts of Scripture; and preached a most eloquent sermon against
2149 VI | over a very short coat, preaches through the nose, and gives
2150 XI | purchase and maintain such precious merchandise. These maidens
2151 XXIV | assured the audience that his predecessor was a great man, that Cardinal
2152 III | effect of the holy man's predictions; so that this accident made
2153 XXI | the spacious world his tub prefer; And we have modern cloistered
2154 XIX | choice. However, he gives the preference particularly to a little
2155 IV | can they enjoy any post or preferment, because an oath must always
2156 XXIII| excludes him, indeed from preferments of every kind, but then
2157 XIV | of the schools, and the prejudices of popular superstition.
2158 XXIV | talent of speaking without premeditation in the Parliament House
2159 XVIII| recommencer son cours. De nos premiers momens nous maudissons l'
2160 XII | making bread, of melting and preparing metals, of building houses,
2161 XXIV | what dissertation on the prerogative of the right hand over the
2162 XXIV | have attended, is to have prescribed to themselves occupations
2163 XX | desolante Etouffe ses plus beaux presens.~"Les monsignors, soy disant
2164 XVIII| folie. Dans des malheurs presents, dans l'espoir des plaisirs
2165 XI | In order, therefore, to preserve the life and beauty of their
2166 XIV | Sciences. M. de Fontenelle presides as judge over philosophers;
2167 XV | it along, being then more pressed, ought to have a greater
2168 XIV | London. In France, it is the pressure of the moon that causes
2169 XXIII| imprisoned in the Bastile, upon pretence that certain strokes in
2170 XXI | Moi peut-etre Ce maitre pretendu qui leur donne des loix,
2171 XXI | est ne pour agir, et tu pretens penser?" &c.~The original
2172 XXI | though they had not the least pretensions to it, and sought for points
2173 XVII | whether these notions will prevail so far with the learned,
2174 IV | King James, that a report prevailed universally of his being
2175 VI | Presbyterian sects are the two prevailing ones in Great Britain, yet
2176 III | the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply
2177 XI | this artificial small-pox prevented their ever having that distemper
2178 XXIV | is more judicious, as it prevents confusion, and the joining,
2179 IX | nations. These were birds of prey fighting with an eagle for
2180 XX | ont fait voeu de pauvrete, Priant Dieu par oisivete Et toujours
2181 XXII | those foreign poets, I only prick down, and that imperfectly,
2182 III | manner, insomuch that the priestess of the Pythian god at Delphos
2183 XV | indisputable effect of an unknown principle-a quality inherent in matter,
2184 IX | the archbishops, bishops, priors, and barons of our kingdom,"
2185 XVI | afterwards by a hundred other prisms, will never change the colour
2186 IX | criminal; nor a right or privilege of hunting in the grounds
2187 VII | absorbed so entirely in problems and calculations that he
2188 XV | Arcana of the Almighty.~"Procedes huc, et non amplius."~(Thus
2189 XVI | and of the blue rays; and proceeding so far as to demonstrate
2190 XXII | air devot dechirant son prochain, Et chansonnant les Gens
2191 XI | small-pox that could be procured.~The experiment could not
2192 XII | nonsense, was looked upon as a prodigy.~The most astonishing, the
2193 Int | Ferney, near Geneva, where he produced much of his best work. He
2194 V | law enacted by a set of profane laymen. A learned monk (
2195 I | we think that those who profess a religion of so holy, so
2196 XIV | that not so much as one professor would undertake to explain
2197 XXII | en murmurant la caverne profonde, Ou loin des doux raions
2198 XV | would certainly be in the progression discovered by Galileo; and
2199 IX | by this odd and whimsical prohibition, how far it was possible
2200 XXII | differens pretend qu'elle est la proie; Et pleine de sante sous
2201 XXIV | that of the French. This project was promoted by the late
2202 XXIV | the fate of many useful projects, of being applauded and
2203 XV | now acquaint you (without prolixity if possible) with the few
2204 XVIII| desirs Les mortels insenses promenent leur folie. Dans des malheurs
2205 Int | the stage he was the most prominent writer of the time, his
2206 XVIII| encore, Ce qu'ont en vain promis les plus beaux de nos jours," &
2207 XII | philosophers, encouraged by his promises, endeavoured to dig up.~
2208 XXIV | French. This project was promoted by the late Earl of Oxford,
2209 XXI | himself the only stay and prop That holds the mighty frame
2210 XXIII| the glory of God, and the Propaganda Fide; took it into his head
2211 VII | tenets than desirous of propagating them, and absorbed so entirely
2212 XXIV | wholly owing to a strong propension, the gentlemen in question
2213 XV | power of gravitation acts proportionably to the quantity of matter
2214 XIX | humour, the allusion, the a propos-all these are lost to a foreigner.~
2215 XXIV | Boileau formerly made this proposal, and that it has since been
2216 XVII | than at the so well-known proposition, viz., that curve lines
2217 XIV | French condemned the only propositions of his philosophy which
2218 XXI | Soi-meme se bercer de ses propres chimeres, Lui seul de la
2219 XIX | characters, may with as much propriety be treated of by the Spaniards,
2220 IV | Oxford, this man made a proselyte of him; and William being
2221 VIII | them had his reign been prosperous. After all, consider on
2222 XXII | party look upon her as a prostitute, an adulteress, a murderer.
2223 I | name of God ought not to be prostituted in the miserable contests
2224 XXIV | have been the ornament and protector of that academy. Those only
2225 XXIV | were resolved to ruin the protectors of the intended academy,
2226 XI | considerable present. It is she who protects the learned Father Courayer.
2227 XV | surprising, after the solemn protestations Sir Isaac made, that such
2228 XV | of this attraction. The proximity of the moon, when at the
2229 IV | employed all the methods that prudence could suggest to engage
2230 XXIV | The Academy of Sciences is prudently confined to the study of
2231 XXII | regardant. Qui rougit sans pudeur, et rit de tout sans joie,
2232 III | he did not once offer to pull off his leathern hat, upon
2233 III | thou dost; God will soon punish thee for persecuting His
2234 XIV | mankind could only be his pupil, not his enemy.~One very
2235 XI | who are wealthy enough to purchase and maintain such precious
2236 XXII | principles and practice of the Puritans are therein ridiculed. It
2237 XXIV | Parliament House with as much purity as Dean Swift wrote in his
2238 XXIV | our language in its utmost purity-which, by that means, would be
2239 XXIII| these great funeral honours, purposely to make us more strongly
2240 X | provinces with money in his purse, and a name terminating
2241 IX | artifice to draw into their own purses moneys from all parts of
2242 XIV | Holland, where he again pursued the study of philosophy,
2243 XXIV | profound, such uninterrupted pursuits as these, such exact calculations,
2244 XIX | now poor Horner is only puzzled about his choice. However,
2245 XVIII| bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather
2246 XXI | the ever blest. This busy, puzzling stirrer up of doubt, That
2247 III | that the priestess of the Pythian god at Delphos could not
2248 XV | the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.~
2249 XVII | a demonstration of this quadrature; much about which time Sir
2250 XV | and its distance in the quadratures or quarters, combined with
2251 III | spake through the nose, they quaked and fancied themselves inspired
2252 IV | happening to meet with a Quaker1 in Cork, whom he had known
2253 XXIV | Vitium est temporis potius quam hominis (the fault is owing
2254 XXI | fit trembler tant de fois, Quand dans le cours de ses exploits,
2255 XV | After this, shall people quarrel with me about the name I
2256 Int | with whom he ultimately quarreled; and he spent the last period
2257 XV | distance in the quadratures or quarters, combined with the action
2258 XXIV | or fourscore volumes in quarto of compliments. The gentleman
2259 XVIII| encore plus malheureux. Quelle est l'erreur, helas! du
2260 III | before he asked him any questions. "Know, friend," says Fox
2261 XVIII| letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.~Here follows another passage
2262 XII | from depraving it by their quiddities, their horrors of the vacuum,
2263 XVIII| When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin.
2264 XXII | with pride; On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
2265 XXI | nobody reads; he abused Quinault, whose poetical pieces every
2266 XXII | des parleurs et du vent La quinteuse deesse incessamment repose,
2267 III | members to fight, as Sixtus Quintus had for another sect, Dove
2268 XV | however, chose rather to quit the researches he was then
2269 XXI | s'envola Romulus, Tel il quitta la Terre, au milieu des
2270 III | soldiers, who thereupon quitted the service and refused
2271 XXII | therein ridiculed. It is Don Quixote, it is our "Satire Menippee"
2272 XXIII| before their majesties. He quoted the authority of the Rabbis,
2273 XXIII| quoted the authority of the Rabbis, and some passages from
2274 XXIII| the immortal labours of Racine, of Corneille, of Moliere, &
2275 V | few of them. For religious rage ceased in England with the
2276 XXII | erudition, of smut, and insipid raillery. An agreeable tale of two
2277 XVI | Till Antonio de Dominis the rainbow was considered as an inexplicable
2278 XXII | profonde, Ou loin des doux raions que repand l'oeil du monde
2279 XXI | qui croit, doute, dispute Rampe, s'eleve, tombe, et nie
2280 XVIII| maitresse encenser les erreurs, Ramper sous un ministre, adorer
2281 III | Being set at liberty, he ran up and down the country
2282 XXI | Inutile a la terre, et mis au rang des morts. Ton esprit enerve
2283 XXIV | or three-score persons to range in. That of London mixes
2284 XVI | separated by the prism, are ranged in their order for no other
2285 V | or Ireland unless he be ranked among the faithful, that
2286 XXII | from his poem entitled the "Rape of the Lock," which I just
2287 XV | be seventeen times more rapid than that of the earth;
2288 XXII | of his own country, but Rapin de Thoyras got the start
2289 IV | his vassals. It was very rare and uncommon for a sovereign
2290 XVI | opinion that it was a frantic rashness to dare so much as to imagine
2291 XVIII| love at random and at any rate in the drama passed from
2292 IV | Christians that was not ratified by an oath, and was never
2293 XV | Finally as in all bodies re-action is equal to action, it is
2294 XV | And in case its influence reaches so far, is it not very probable
2295 XIX | Congreve. We don't laugh in reading a translation. If you have
2296 XXI | Segrais, whose works nobody reads; he abused Quinault, whose
2297 XXIII| the author of Rhadamistus ready to perish for hunger. And
2298 II | whether your discourse is really inspired by the Almighty?" "
2299 IX | many to sow, and but few reap. And was not France very
2300 XV | it.~Thus Sir Isaac Newton reasoned. But at that time the English
2301 VI | that proud though tattered reasoner. Diogenes did not use Alexander
2302 XIII | soul.~Such a multitude of reasoners having written the romance
2303 XXII | in the time of the grand rebellion, and the principles and
2304 VIII | brave (but to no purpose), rebellious without a cause, factious
2305 XVI | supposed to arise from the rebounding of the rays, in the same
2306 II | or no; consequently thou receivest thy ideas from Him who created
2307 XXII | a l'instant, vieil gnome rechigne, Va d'une aile pesante et
2308 XVIII| Nul de nous ne voudroit recommencer son cours. De nos premiers
2309 XIX | whom at the same time he recommends to the care of his supposed
2310 VIII | no intermediate power to reconcile them. The Roman senate,
2311 IV | died. The Vice-Admiral was reconciled to his son, and though of
2312 XI | condenscended to attempt a reconciliation between Dr. Clark and Mr.
2313 XIII | that we must always have recourse to God in our examining
2314 XIX | sword through his body, recovers his casket, and marries
2315 XI | had a great nose at her recovery, and the unhappy parents
2316 VI | forbidden to work or take any recreation on that day, in which the
2317 XXI | d'un peuple guerrier il recut les homages; Obei dans sa
2318 XV | times stronger than that of red-hot iron; and would have been
2319 XII | made sacred by their being rediculously blended with religion.~He
2320 XXIII| rewards of another kind, which redound more to the honour of the
2321 XXIV | exact calculations, such refined discoveries, such extensive
2322 IV | but a circumstance which reflected the greatest honour on them,
2323 XVI | according to the English, a reflective telescope of but five feet
2324 XVI | refrangibility. The most reflexible rays are the most refrangible,
2325 XVII | learned, as to prompt them to reform the chronology of the world.
2326 XVI | reason but because they are refracted in that very order; and
2327 XVI | refraction of rays, this power of refracting the red less than the orange
2328 XVI | calculated the reflections and refractions of light in drops of rain.
2329 I | very difficult for thee to refrain from laughter, when I answered
2330 XVI | reflexible rays are the most refrangible, and from hence he evinces
2331 VII | Father inflict on those who refuse His Son Jesus the titles
2332 XXII | sans entendre, et lorgne en regardant. Qui rougit sans pudeur,
2333 XIV | death was owing to a bad regimen, and he expired in the midst
2334 XXII | cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, The dreaded east
2335 XIII | see God in the celestial regions, but converses with Christ'
2336 XVIII| translation:~"De desseins en regrets et d'erreurs en desirs Les
2337 XIV | young, and was very much regretted by him. Thus the experienced
2338 I | I perceived a small but regularly built house, vastly neat,
2339 XIII | clock which is given us to regulate, but the artist has not
2340 XXIV | is not under such prudent regulations as ours, the only reason
2341 XII | on the universals a part rei, or such-like nonsense,
2342 IX | briefs, their bulls, and reinforced by monks, they made even
2343 IX | Lords have the liberty to reject a Money Bill brought in
2344 I | occasion of those public rejoicings."~~
2345 XV | taught you," may Sir Isaac rejoin, "that all bodies gravitate
2346 XV | universal a reputation, relate to the system of the world,
2347 IV | England to settle some affairs relating to his new dominions. After
2348 XXII | subjects are general, and relative to all nations.~His "Essay
2349 IV | left it, but with great reluctance, in order to return to England,
2350 XVIII| hope pleasure in what yet remain, And from the dregs of life
2351 III | little after His death, and remained in that state of corruption
2352 III | excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself
2353 III | heart, but forget Him who remembered thee in thy distress, and
2354 XVII | nation, but endeavours to remove its original as far backward
2355 IX | liberty as this was not many removes from slavery.~By Article
2356 XII | which not only ignorance had rendered venerable, but which had
2357 XVIII| literal version; who by rendering every word of his original,
2358 XXII | translation which l'Abbe de Renel has made of it.~Here is
2359 XXII | aile pesante et d'un air renfrogne Chercher en murmurant la
2360 IV | himself bound in any manner to renounce his principles, merely to
2361 XXII | earth, his proper scene, Repairs to search the gloomy cave
2362 XXII | loin des doux raions que repand l'oeil du monde La Deesse
2363 XXII | commentator of smart sayings and repartees is himself a blockhead.
2364 XVIII| and think, to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than
2365 I | baptise you with water unto repentance; but He that cometh after
2366 I | enemies, and to suffer without repining, would certainly not permit
2367 XXI | that gave occasion to the reply (taken notice of in Bayle'
2368 XXI | par eux memes a l'ennui du repos. Ce mystique encloitre,
2369 XXII | quinteuse deesse incessamment repose, Le coeur gros de chagrin,
2370 XIX | honest knave in whom he had reposed so much confidence, and
2371 VI | courts of justice, where the representatives of all nations meet for
2372 XIX | acquainted with the people it represents.~~
2373 IV | confined himself to this single request, viz., "that he should wait
2374 XIII | do this; nothing more is required, and the matter is cleared
2375 III | pretended, with all the requisites of a true apostle-that is,
2376 VIII | in Rome; this is the only resemblance. Besides, the two nations
2377 XVIII| poetical genius of the English resembles a tufted tree planted by
2378 V | here are very much upon the reserve, and most of them pedants.
2379 VIII | religious wars, an abomination reserved for devout preachers of
2380 IV | but himself. After having resided some years in Pennsylvania
2381 XXI | un Temple," &c.~"We must resign! heaven his great soul does
2382 IX | finding their account in this resignation, dethroned the wretched
2383 XV | meet with an insuperable resistance.~With regard to the great
2384 III | had ever met with that had resisted the charms of gold.~The
2385 VIII | to the power of kings by resisting them; and who, by a series
2386 VIII | repeated the same words with a resolute tone of voice, and the laugh
2387 XVIII| And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the
2388 XV | In fine, the better to resolve, if possible, every difficulty,
2389 XVIII| verisimilitude, dart such resplendent flashes through this gleam,
2390 XII | looking-glasses; the art of restoring, in some measure, old men
2391 VIII | and, at the same time, is restrained from committing evil; where
2392 XXI | and latitude, and that the restraint of our versification, and
2393 IX | or throw it out without restriction. When the Bill has passed
2394 XX | country - an advantage that results naturally from the form
2395 XV | French, Sir Isaac Newton resumed is former reflections, and
2396 XVII | situation, and yet we still retain the same manner of speaking
2397 V | The English clergy have retained a great number of the Romish
2398 XV | probable that this power retains it in its orbit, and determines
2399 XVII | eighth, and therefore it had retarded seven degrees. A degree
2400 XVII | Its poles have a very slow retrograde motion from east to west,
2401 XIX | The captain so far from returning her love, will not even
2402 XIII | necessary religion should reveal it to us. It is of advantage
2403 IV | mankind to respect virtue when revealed in a ridiculous light. He
2404 XVIII| tout meurt, mais un affreux reveil Doit succeder peut etre
2405 XXI | croupit dans la molesse. Reveille toi, sois homme, et sors
2406 XII | present age the English revere his memory to such a degree,
2407 XXI | of thinking fools, Those reverend bedlams, colleges, and schools;
2408 XXI | percer l'univers. Allez, reverends fous, bienheureux fanatiques,
2409 VII | principles of Arius begin to revive, not only in England, but
2410 II | to him. "No, no, friend," rfplies the Quaker, "to our great
2411 XXIII| in France the author of Rhadamistus ready to perish for hunger.
2412 XVIII| value than all the idle rhapsodies of those commentators; and
2413 XVIII| London about 1660, with our ribbons and our perruques. The ladies
2414 XXII | fievre et la migraine. Sur un riche sofa derriere un paravent
2415 XXIV | great man, that Cardinal Richelieu was a very great man, that
2416 IX | villains, afterwards acquiring riches by their industry, purchased
2417 XXI | Compilez bien l'amas de vos riens scholastiques, Peres de
2418 XXIII| wars raised by a number of rigid fanatics, who at last were
2419 VII | illustrious Dr. Clark. This man is rigidly virtuous, and of a mild
2420 XXII | Qui rougit sans pudeur, et rit de tout sans joie, De cent
2421 XXI | grondant aux plus lointains rivages Que l'effroi de la terre
2422 XXI | orgueilleuse Des sages animaux, rivale dedaigneuse, Qui croit entr'
2423 XIV | since become boundless. Robault's little work was, during
2424 IX | authority of those petty robbers was abolished by the lawful
2425 XII | satire upon mankind, like Rochefoucauld's "Maxims," nor written
2426 XV | terror of mankind and the rock against which philosophy
2427 IX | particularly, ruled them with a rod of iron. He disposed as
2428 XXI | leur donne des loix, Ce roi des animaux, combien a-t'
2429 XXI | remotest shores the billows rolled, Th' approaching fate of
2430 XIII | twenty amuse themselves with romances to one who studies philosophy.
2431 XVII | curve, to find the square root of a number, which has none
2432 XXI | About his palace their broad roots are tost Into the air; so
2433 XXII | Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen, Practised to
2434 XV | planets in their orbits, their rotations round their axis, all this
2435 XXII | pleine de sante sous le rouge et le fard, Se plaint avec
2436 XXII | lorgne en regardant. Qui rougit sans pudeur, et rit de tout
2437 XVIII| to dream! Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death,
2438 I | who owned it was a hale, ruddy complexioned old man, who
2439 XXI | barbarity; an age that was still rude and ignorant, the people
2440 IV | of wearing buttons and ruffles; and quite ashamed of being
2441 IX | Conqueror particularly, ruled them with a rod of iron.
2442 XXI | approaching fate of his great ruler told."~Waller.~It was this
2443 IX | England, where all were for ruling; the most numerous, the
2444 XVIII| What the first sprightly running could not give. I'm tired
2445 XXII | particulars our giggling rural Vicar Rabelais is wanting.
2446 IV | saw it again, he dying in Ruscombe, in Berkshire, in 1718.~
2447 XXIII| authority, and this Gothic rusticity which some presume to call
2448 X | little lead, tin, fuller's-earth, and coarse wool, should
2449 I | inspired, to prove that the sacraments were merely of human invention,
2450 XXI | de visions, et d'enigmes sacres, Auteurs du labirinthe,
2451 I | brokenness of heart, for the sad havoc which is the occasion
2452 I | are deeply affected with sadness of spirit and brokenness
2453 III | only he would have been safe enough, but he inveighed
2454 XIV | would have conducted him safely through the several paths
2455 XII | influence before."~Methinks our sagacious Thuanus does not give in
2456 XXI | inquiete, orgueilleuse Des sages animaux, rivale dedaigneuse,
2457 XII | this as it will, men had sailed round the world, and could
2458 XXIV | keel in order to make its sailing better; and yet Columbus
2459 XXII | entour, Et le souffle mal sain de leur aride haleine Y
2460 III | thee for persecuting His saints." This magistrate, being
2461 XXIII| excommunicate persons who receive salaries from the king; that we condemn
2462 I | freedom as we do a beggar, and salute no person; we owing nothing
2463 I | of the soul, which is the salvation of mankind. Thus the forerunner
2464 VI | exhortations. To them is owing the sanctification of Sunday in the three kingdoms.
2465 VII | than we do. But the most sanguine stickler for Arianism is
2466 XXII | est la proie; Et pleine de sante sous le rouge et le fard,
2467 XX | or in our Chaulieu, our Sarrasin, or Chapelle. The translation
2468 XVII | Sixty-three kings of France have sat upon the throne; these have,
2469 XV | both. That every one of the satellites of Saturn gravitates towards
2470 XIX | with so much as a single satirical stroke against the country
2471 XII | invented by uncultivated, savage men.~What a prodigious use
2472 XXII | gros de chagrin, sans en savoir la cause. N'aiant pense
2473 IX | one of the tyrants of the Saxon Heptarchy in England, was
2474 IX | years by the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, and the French
2475 XXII | for a commentator of smart sayings and repartees is himself
2476 XIII | than one, looked upon as a scandalous declaration that the soul
2477 XI | they never leave the least scar in the face. From these
2478 I | because murderers clothed in scarlet, and wearing caps two foot
2479 XVI | bring objects nearer to us, scatter too much the elementary
2480 XVI | glasses the proportion of the scattering of the red and of the blue
2481 XVIII| such noble, such dreadful scenes in this writer's monstrous
2482 XII | Maxims," nor written upon a sceptical plan, Like Montaigne's "
2483 XVII | England have swayed the sceptre from William the Conqueror
2484 XX | of the clergy, are abler scholars, have a finer taste, and
2485 XXI | bien l'amas de vos riens scholastiques, Peres de visions, et d'
2486 VIII | Methinks I see a crowd of schoolboys rising up in arms against
2487 XIII | defeated; for he argued as a schoolman, and Locke as a philosopher,
2488 XIII | oracles. Afterwards a thousand schoolmen arose, such as the Irrefragable
2489 XIV | undertake to explain it; and Schotten in Holland, and Format in
2490 XII | least read, I mean his Novum Scientiarum Organum. This is the scaffold
2491 Int | Corneille is notable. His scientific and philosophic interests
2492 XVIII| would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's
2493 XXII | Jacobites consider Mary Queen of Scots as a pious heroine, but
2494 III | persuaded, and those who scourged him became his first disciples.
2495 XXII | sheltered close from air, And screened in shades from day's detested
2496 III | began to writhe his body, to screw up his face, to hold in
2497 XI | ambassador at the Porte, made no scruple to communicate the small-pox
2498 XXII | ought (since they have not scrupled to be in our debt) to borrow
2499 XVIII| ces extremitez, Mais le scrupule parle, et nous crie, arretez;
2500 XXIII| antiquity, for painting, sculpture, and architecture. Louis
2501 I | evidence to the truth by sealing it with our yea or nay;