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2502 III | fastened, the populace went and searched for the Church of England
2503 IV | considered him as an obscure sectary, but as a very great man.
2504 VIII | England is no more than a sedition in other countries. A city
2505 IV | sowed likewise the good seed in Germany, but reaped very
2506 | seeming
2507 XXI | his censures. He applauded Segrais, whose works nobody reads;
2508 XXIV | man, that the Chancellor Seguier was a pretty great man,
2509 XXI | indolence Tranquille, au sein de Dieu. Que peut il faire?
2510 XXII | aux Vapeurs a choisi son sejour, Les Tristes Aquilons y
2511 XVII | with which the principle of self-love that is in man will scarce
2512 XXI | his nod gives laws This self-named king, who thus pretends
2513 II | as it were, the Gospel, sell the Holy Ghost, and make
2514 VIII | doubtless very unjustly) of selling their voices on certain
2515 XV | that as the earth is sixty semi-diameters distant from the moon, a
2516 XXIII| to excommunicate Signor Senesino or Signora Cuzzoni. With
2517 XIII | the same organs, the same sensations, the same perceptions as
2518 V | ecclesiastical matters, to sentence impious books from time
2519 XIII | the Angelic Doctor, the Seraphic Doctor, and the Cherubic
2520 I | preached a most eloquent sermon against that ordinance.
2521 XVIII| detournent la vue? La mort seroit trop douce en ces extremitez,
2522 I | their most obedient humble servants. It is to secure ourselves
2523 V | army, as a reward for long services; and we never see youngsters
2524 XVIII| translated Shakspeare in a servile manner. Woe to the writer
2525 XXII | no longer humour. Whoever sets up for a commentator of
2526 XVII | were the most negligent in setting down the eras: books were
2527 XX | monsignors, soy disant Grands, Seuls dans leurs palais magnifiques
2528 XVI | blue, the sixth indigo, the seventh a violet-purple. Each of
2529 XV | consists in reality of near seventy. As this false computation
2530 XV | distance as five hundred and seventy-five years. As to Mr. Whiston,
2531 XVI | Newton, in all his works, severally saw the mechanism of the
2532 XV | after the fatigue of his severer studies.~I will now acquaint
2533 XI | to his children of both sexes immediately upon their being
2534 XXII | from air, And screened in shades from day's detested glare,
2535 XIX | characters all which are shadowed with the utmost delicacy,
2536 XIX | comedy, merely to censure Shadwell the comic writer. This author
2537 XIII | Spinoza, Hobbes, the Lord Shaftesbury, Collins, nor Toland lighted
2538 XXI | groans, his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut
2539 III | thousand sermons and as many shaking fits could have done. Oliver,
2540 | shalt
2541 XIV | imagine that the earth is shaped like a melon, or of an oblique
2542 XX | moulded into such a variety of shapes, that the monarch needs
2543 IX | those ages were far from sharing in the government, they
2544 VIII | great calamities, and have shed as much blood; but then
2545 XVI | upon a piece of linen, or a sheet of white paper, in their
2546 XXII | blows. Here, in a grotto, sheltered close from air, And screened
2547 XXIV | gentlemen in question had to shine, and to display a thread-bare,
2548 III | that light of Christ which shineth in thy conscience, which
2549 VIII | Romans.~Not long since Mr. Shippen opened a speech in the House
2550 I | Christian." "Heavens!" said I, shocked at his impiety, "you have
2551 XVIII| Caesar the jokes of the Roman shoemakers and cobblers, who are introduced
2552 XXI | genius, was the first who shone in this aurora of French
2553 III | s several grimaces, and shook in every limb the instant
2554 Int | cultivated by him; in all he showed brilliant powers; and in
2555 I | afraid, for so far from shuddering at the thoughts of death,
2556 XVIII| dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must
2557 XII | received him with the curtains shut close. "You resemble the
2558 XII | and the invention of the shuttle, are infinitely more beneficial
2559 III | for another sect, Dove non si chiavava,1 began to persecute
2560 XVIII| native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast
2561 XXII | There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek
2562 XXII | Les Tristes Aquilons y sifflent a l'entour, Et le souffle
2563 XXI | notice on his death, And, sighing, swelled the sea with such
2564 XXII | day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive
2565 XV | spring performed a very signal service to natural philosophy.
2566 XXI | nous au sort, Le ciel a signale ce jour par des tempetes,
2567 XXIII| opera, or to excommunicate Signor Senesino or Signora Cuzzoni.
2568 XXIII| excommunicate Signor Senesino or Signora Cuzzoni. With regard to
2569 XVII | Bull then stood. All the signs have changed their situation,
2570 XXI | by heart; and is wholly silent upon La Fontaine. Waller,
2571 III | Leicestershire, and son to a silk weaver, took it into his
2572 V | the Church of England, or simply the Church, by way of eminence.
2573 I | I pitied very much the sincerity of my worthy Quaker, and
2574 XVIII| are all the time drinking, singing ballads, and making humorous
2575 I | account in few words of some singularities which make this sect the
2576 VIII | England would be wounded." The singularity of the expression occasioned
2577 III | thee to be at ease in thy sins, but doth and will deal
2578 III | overruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and, being
2579 XVII | signs have changed their situation, and yet we still retain
2580 III | state of corruption about sixteen hundred years. But there
2581 XVII | say, the three hundred and sixtieth part of the circumference
2582 III | its members to fight, as Sixtus Quintus had for another
2583 XVII | years and a half very near. Sixty-three kings of France have sat
2584 XXI | frame of Nature up. The skies and stars his properties
2585 XVIII| profession) on the several skulls they throw up with their
2586 X | time that he is acting the slave in the ante-chamber of a
2587 VIII | whether the people should be slaves to the Guises. With regard
2588 VIII | Frondeurs, in its proper sense Slingers, and figuratively Cavillers,
2589 XVIII| in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous
2590 XI | throne, having never let slip one opportunity of improving
2591 XVII | years. Its poles have a very slow retrograde motion from east
2592 XV | that the earth's motion is slower.~He proves that there is
2593 XIX | this comedy isone Horner, a sly fortune hunter, and the
2594 XXII | lavish of erudition, of smut, and insipid raillery. An
2595 XIII | than Peloponnesus, that snow was black, and that the
2596 XI | the same manner as we take snuff. This is a more agreeable
2597 VI | settle in it, and live very sociably together, though most of
2598 Int | satire, epigram, and vers de societe. Of real poetical quality
2599 XII | his power to prevent those societies of men instituted to improve
2600 XXII | la migraine. Sur un riche sofa derriere un paravent Loin
2601 XVIII| effeminate complaisance to soften the severity of his dramatic
2602 XXI | plein de vapeurs legeres, Soi-meme se bercer de ses propres
2603 XIV | all the properties of the soil. Those who come after him,
2604 XVIII| est l'erreur, helas! du soin qui nous devore, Nul de
2605 XXI | la molesse. Reveille toi, sois homme, et sors de ton ivresse.
2606 III | been levelled against the soldiery only he would have been
2607 XV | should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant
2608 IV | return to England, there to solicit some matters in favour of
2609 XII | Tamerlane, Cromwell, &c.?~Somebody answered that Sir Isaac
2610 I | obedience.~"Our apparel is also somewhat different from that of others,
2611 VI | divinity schools, and hums a song in chorus with ladies in
2612 V | themselves in writing tender love songs, entertain their friends
2613 IV | believe in one God.~He had no sooner settled his government,
2614 XXII | of Spleen, Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome,
2615 XVIII| All your junior academical sophs, who set up for censors
2616 XI | Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and of all those who are
2617 XXI | Reveille toi, sois homme, et sors de ton ivresse. L'homme
2618 XXI | on whose wings each heavy sot can pierce The limits of
2619 XI | of his age.~The Prince of Soubise, happy in the finest flush
2620 XXII | sifflent a l'entour, Et le souffle mal sain de leur aride haleine
2621 XXI | brisoit la tete des Rois, Et soumettoit un peuple a son joug seul
2622 XXI | est plus, s'en est fait, soumettons nous au sort, Le ciel a
2623 XIII | devout after their way, sounded an alarm. The superstitious
2624 XXII | He has mellowed the harsh sounds of the English trumpet to
2625 XXI | mort.~"Par ses derniers soupirs il ebranle cet ile; Cet
2626 VI | serious gait, puts on a sour look, wears a vastly broad-brimmed
2627 XX | extravagante comedie Que souvent l'Inquisition Veut qu'on
2628 IX | often contested with their sovereigns for the spoils of whole
2629 IV | invested him with the right and sovereignty of a province of America,
2630 IX | was abominable for many to sow, and but few reap. And was
2631 IV | kingdom of heaven. The Friends sowed likewise the good seed in
2632 XX | presens.~"Les monsignors, soy disant Grands, Seuls dans
2633 XVIII| they throw up with their spades; but a circumstance which
2634 IV | and at last, instead of specie, the Government, invested
2635 XXII | Methinks I now have given you specimens enough from the English
2636 I | man make a wrong, but very specious application of four or five
2637 XXIII| we condemn as impious a spectacle exhibited in convents and
2638 XII | old men to their sight by spectacles; gunpowder, &c., had been
2639 XXIII| raises the admiration of the spectator is not the mausoleums of
2640 III | to preach. At first the spectators fell a-laughing, but they
2641 XXII | assise aupres d'elle, Vieil spectre feminin, decrepite pucelle,
2642 XXIV | sometimes made the worst speeches, I answer, that it is wholly
2643 XIX | you to go to England, to spend three years in London, to
2644 XXIV | whilst a poor algebraist spends his whole life in searching
2645 XIII | Montaigne, Locke, Bayle, Spinoza, Hobbes, the Lord Shaftesbury,
2646 XXII | search the gloomy cave of Spleen, Swift on his sooty pinions
2647 V | entertain their friends very splendidly every night at their own
2648 XVI | discovered it) of breaking or splitting in this proportion; it is
2649 IX | their sovereigns for the spoils of whole nations. These
2650 XXIII| monasteries; that we dishonour sports in which Louis XIV. and
2651 IX | heavy. Liberty in England sprang from the quarrels of tyrants.
2652 I | not of opinion that the sprinkling water on a child's head
2653 XXII | Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite As ever sullied the fair
2654 XII | again to be haunted with sprites, by the magic and curious
2655 IX | they had conquered, whence sprung those margraves, those peers,
2656 XVIII| insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the
2657 VIII | the Sacrament; Henry III. stabbed by a monk; thirty assassinations
2658 XVI | in like manner as a long staff acts at one end when pushed
2659 XVIII| more than moving, itinerant stages. Shakspeare, who was considered
2660 XXIII| that some persons dare to stamp with infamy an art which
2661 XXIV | would be fixed to a lasting standard; and valuable French books
2662 XXIII| in a bookseller's shop' standing the very next to the immortal
2663 II | that which he carried me to stands near the famous pillar called
2664 XVII | imagination ought not to be startled any more at so many orders
2665 XXIV | time that they were just starved.~It is a law in the French
2666 IX | form of government called States or Parliaments, about which
2667 XXIII| its glory. We view their statues in that abbey in the same
2668 IV | handsome, and of a graceful stature, the court as well as the
2669 XXI | Be think himself the only stay and prop That holds the
2670 XIX | living, such as Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Cibber, who is an
2671 XVII | He advanced with mighty steps in his geometry, and was
2672 VII | do. But the most sanguine stickler for Arianism is the illustrious
2673 I | noise made with two little sticks on an ass' skin extended.
2674 V | clergy are married. The stiff and awkward air contracted
2675 XIII | stupid productions. Bishop Stillingfleet got the reputation of a
2676 XVIII| also confessed that the stilts of the figurative style,
2677 XXIV | and of receiving the royal stipend, has a love for the sciences;
2678 VI | but very inconsiderable stipends from their churches, and
2679 XXI | blest. This busy, puzzling stirrer up of doubt, That frames
2680 IX | afraid of increasing their stock of cattle, nor of tiling
2681 XIV | the flower of his age at Stockholm. His death was owing to
2682 XXIII| from which Father Le Brun stole his, was sentenced to be
2683 XIII | that the heavens were of stone, affirmed that the soul
2684 XXI | instead of sentiments. Bristol stones are more easily found than
2685 I | towards me without once stooping his body; but there appeared
2686 | stop
2687 XXII | and white arrayed; With store of prayers for mornings,
2688 Int | and many admirable short stories; in history, his "Age of
2689 VIII | when immediately it is stormed by mercenary troops, it
2690 XXI | great soul does claim In storms as loud as his immortal
2691 XIV | the Hercules of fabulous story, to whom the ignorant ascribed
2692 XVIII| most tender piece, a man strangles his wife on the stage; and
2693 XVIII| poor woman, whilst she is strangling, cries aloud that she dies
2694 V | damned Whigs don't care a straw whether the episcopal succession
2695 XIX | The laws of the drama are strictly observed in them; they abound
2696 IX | would be no such thing in strictness of law as nobility in that
2697 XXIV | gentlemen, not being able to strike out any new thoughts, hunted
2698 Int | his greatest service to strive to introduce into his own
2699 XIX | and painted them with the strongest pencil, and in the truest
2700 VIII | and who, by a series of struggles, have at last established
2701 X | terminating in ac or ille, may strut about, and cry, "Such a
2702 IV | as in most princes of the Stuart family, grandeur and weakness
2703 XVI | The geometricians have subjected infinity to the laws of
2704 XVII | It is to this method of subjecting everywhere infinity to algebraical
2705 XVII | reality an effort of the sublety and extent of the human
2706 IX | such thing as an arbitrary subsidy or poll-tax, but a real
2707 IX | Commons, did not always subsist. England was enslaved for
2708 IV | reduced to the necessity of subsisting upon traffic. Their children,
2709 V | considering them as barons subsists to this day. There is a
2710 XII | horrors of the vacuum, their substantial forms, and all those impertinent
2711 XIII | and at the same time to substitute his own; and hurried away
2712 XVII | consequently some years must be subtracted from their computation.~
2713 XVIII| mais un affreux reveil Doit succeder peut etre aux douceurs du
2714 IX | sentenced to death. The bishops succeeded, by insensible degrees,
2715 Int | writer of the time, his most successful dramas including "Zaire," "
2716 IX | the Danes, and the French successively. William the Conqueror particularly,
2717 X | middle of Germany in order to succour Savoy. Having no money,
2718 IX | blood the victorious was to suck. Every nation, instead of
2719 XXIV | Queen Anne being snatched suddenly from the world, the Whigs
2720 I | baptism of John, as He had suffered Himself to be circumcised;
2721 IV | methods that prudence could suggest to engage him to behave
2722 XVIII| tourmens eternels est aussi-tot suivie. O mort! moment fatal! affreuse
2723 XXII | melancholy sprite As ever sullied the fair face of light,
2724 XI | seraglios of the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy, and
2725 XV | of the earth, or on the summits of the highest mountains,
2726 XXIII| his head off. Prynne was summoned to appear before the Star
2727 VI | are allowed in London on Sundays, and even cards are so expressly
2728 V | country of sectarists. Multae sunt mansiones in domo patris
2729 XVIII| conspiracy. Antonio, the super-annuated senator plays, in his mistress'
2730 XVI | afterwards in the crucible. As a superabundant proof that each of these
2731 XXI | very reason I despise, This supernatural gift that makes a mite Think
2732 XIV | the prejudices of popular superstition. At last his name spread
2733 V | their ambition craves a supply. Employments are here bestowed
2734 XV | well as the other which supposes every planet to turn on
2735 XV | depended on the uncertain supposition of mariners, who computed
2736 XXIII| that the magistrates would suppress I know not what contemptible
2737 XIV | Sweden, which however was suppressed in honour to his memory.~
2738 XIX | Letter XIX: On Comedy~I am suprised that the judicious and ingenious
2739 X | from his counting-house to Surat and Grand Cairo, and contributes
2740 III | follow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy condemnation.~"
2741 XIX | fellow, in order to play a surer game, causes a report to
2742 XIV | me by the physician and surgeon who attended him in his
2743 XIX | in his last illness, the surgeons had found it necessary to
2744 XXII | the arts, and whom we have surpassed in some. I cannot determine
2745 XVIII| circumstance which will surprise you is, that this ridiculous
2746 VIII | tempestuous than the sea which surrounds it, which indeed is true;
2747 XIII | their souls, who so much as suspect that it is possible for
2748 XIX | real man of honour, whom he suspects so unaccountably, goes on
2749 XI | became epidemical, trade was suspended for several years, which
2750 XIX | sincere friend, whom he yet is suspicious of, and a mistress that
2751 IV | established religion will at last swallow up all the rest. Quakers
2752 XVII | Thirty kings of England have swayed the sceptre from William
2753 XVIII| fardels bear To groan and sweat under a weary life, But
2754 XIV | entertainment of Christina, Queen of Sweden, which however was suppressed
2755 XXI | his death, And, sighing, swelled the sea with such a breath,
2756 XV | sensible reason why the ocean swells and sinks.~After having
2757 XI | persons whom the small-pox swept away at Paris in 1723 would
2758 XV | demonstrated, that if the earth swims in a fluid, its density
2759 VIII | Augustus, did not draw their swords and set the world in a blaze
2760 III | justice would have had him sworn before he asked him any
2761 VIII | and humility. Marious and Sylla, Caesar and Pompey, Anthony
2762 VIII | one another merely about syllogisms, as some zealots among them
2763 VI | assembly, some withdraw to the synagogue, and others to take a glass.
2764 XIII | and hurried away by that systematic spirit which throws a cloud
2765 II | gives motion to this earthly tabernacle. And are the several ideas
2766 XXII | him for a translation of Tacitus), who is very capable of
2767 XXII | insipid raillery. An agreeable tale of two pages is purchased
2768 XXIII| not bear to hear a writer talk of excommunicating him,
2769 XXI | Waller has been very much talked of in France, and Mr. de
2770 XII | man, Caesar, Alexander, Tamerlane, Cromwell, &c.?~Somebody
2771 XVII | pass between a circle and a tangent, or at that other, namely,
2772 XXI | que son bras fit trembler tant de fois, Quand dans le cours
2773 XIV | Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites."~Virgil,
2774 XVIII| that it is a very difficult task to translate his fine verses.
2775 III | wisest counsels. "Thou hast tasted," said he to the King at
2776 VI | unlike that proud though tattered reasoner. Diogenes did not
2777 IX | or poll-tax, but a real tax on the lands, of all which
2778 XXIV | those works, they would teach them our language in its
2779 IV | Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had
2780 Int | has little, but abundant technical cleverness. For the stage
2781 XIII | never subject himself to the tedious fatigue of calculations,
2782 XXII | trouble, L'oceil charge, le teint pale, et l'hypocondre enfle.
2783 XIII | fought with weapons whose temper he knew. If I might presume
2784 XXI | lost! New Rome in such a tempest missed her king, And from
2785 VIII | government of this island is more tempestuous than the sea which surrounds
2786 XXI | signale ce jour par des tempetes, Et la voix des tonnerres
2787 XXI | adore, Son palais fut un Temple," &c.~"We must resign! heaven
2788 XXIV | evident enough. Vitium est temporis potius quam hominis (the
2789 III | which snare, as well as the temptation of those that may or do
2790 IV | persuasion, embraced him tenderly. William made a fruitless
2791 XI | nations, I mean maternal tenderness and interest.~The Circassians
2792 XVIII| enough. Had he written only a tenth part of the works he left
2793 XXIII| of the evil spirit; that Terence was excommunicated ipso
2794 X | in his purse, and a name terminating in ac or ille, may strut
2795 XV | Deluge a comet overflowed the terrestrial globe. And he was so unreasonable
2796 XXI | tu t'en es trouble; O mer tes flots emus Semblent dire
2797 VII | work containing all the testimonies of the primitive ages for
2798 XXI | exploits, Il brisoit la tete des Rois, Et soumettoit
2799 XXI | tonnerres eclatant sur nos tetes Vient d'annoncer sa mort.~"
2800 XXI | shores the billows rolled, Th' approaching fate of his
2801 III | repeated, for which Fox thanked them very cordially, and
2802 I | is heard in the air, of thanksgivings, of bells, of organs, and
2803 XVIII| Spaniards were possessed of theatres at a time when the French
2804 V | Ghibellines formerly did theirs. It was absolutely necessary
2805 XVIII| suffer love only to be the theme of every conversation. The
2806 XV | demonstrated, by a known theorem, that the central force
2807 XV | Cartesian system. But the theorist, before he calculated the
2808 | thereby
2809 | thereof
2810 XII | And a man who maintained a thesis on Aristotle's "Categories,"
2811 XIX | spacious as the walls are thick, this castle would be commodious
2812 | thine
2813 II | in God, thou actest, thou thinkest in God. After this thou
2814 XI | for several years, which thinned very considerably the seraglios
2815 XIX | in Moliere's comedy, the thinness of the plot, which also
2816 XV | to be merely imaginary.~"Thirdly, I use the word attraction
2817 IX | time to time his legates thither to levy exorbitant taxes.
2818 IV | above twenty.~[Footnote 1: Thomas Loe.]~Being returned, after
2819 XI | have saved the lives of thousands.~~
2820 XXII | own country, but Rapin de Thoyras got the start of him. To
2821 XXIV | shine, and to display a thread-bare, worn-out subject in a new
2822 VIII | moment cashiered them. He threatened, he begged pardon; he set
2823 XXIV | spacious enough for fifty or three-score persons to range in. That
2824 II | and partly from his mouth, threw out a strange, confused
2825 VI | would cut one another's throats; but as there are such a
2826 | throughout
2827 XIX | his treacherous friend, thrusts his sword through his body,
2828 XII | cities by an artificial thunder more dreadful than the real
2829 XXI | est pas ma raison c'est la tienne, docteur C'est la raison
2830 I | that we are neither wolves, tigers, nor mastiffs, but men and
2831 IX | stock of cattle, nor of tiling their houses from any apprehension
2832 XII | been found out before his time-the sea-compass, printing, engraving
2833 XVIII| guerrier, fait un Chretien timide," &c.~Do not imagine that
2834 I | circumcised his disciple Timothy, and the other disciples
2835 X | produce is a little lead, tin, fuller's-earth, and coarse
2836 XVI | this wood will instantly be tinged red. But set it in the ray
2837 X | a lord, powdered in the tip of the mode, who knows exactly
2838 XVIII| running could not give. I'm tired with waiting for his chymic
2839 II | Malebranche's doctrine to a tittle." "I am acquainted with
2840 XIII | Shaftesbury, Collins, nor Toland lighted up the firebrand
2841 Int | show his admiration for the tolerance and freedom of speech in
2842 XXI | dispute Rampe, s'eleve, tombe, et nie encore sa chute,
2843 XXI | tempetes, Et la voix des tonnerres eclatant sur nos tetes Vient
2844 III | time when Great Britain was torn to pieces by the intestine
2845 XII | it, but some time after Torricelli seized upon his truth. In
2846 XXI | palace their broad roots are tost Into the air; so Romulus
2847 XIV | very essence of things is totally changed. You neither are
2848 XIX | Sir John having taken a tour into France before the glorious
2849 XVIII| que cette courte vie, De tourmens eternels est aussi-tot suivie.
2850 XXI | appui, Et le dixieme ciel ne tourne que pour lui. De tous les
2851 XIX | character, all the husbands in town flocked to him with their
2852 X | beneath him. When the Lord Townshend was Minister of State, a
2853 XVII | assistance we are enabled to trace its various windings.~Descartes
2854 XIII | and complex ideas; having traced the human mind through its
2855 XIII | instant of his birth; he traces, step by step, the progress
2856 XV | measured the earth exactly, by tracing that meridian which redounds
2857 XIV | man who discovers a new tract of land cannot at once know
2858 I | England, who, after having traded thirty years, had the wisdom
2859 XI | of Persia and Turkey.~A trading nation is always watchful
2860 XVIII| copied from a celebrated tragic writer among the English.
2861 IX | governed by one master, was trampled upon by a hundred tyrants.
2862 VI | yourself the haughty Diogenes trampling under foot the pride of
2863 XVIII| transports, c'est un sommeil tranquile. On s'endort, et tout meurt,
2864 V | of the Government whose tranquility they would willingly disturb.
2865 XXI | encloitre, fier de son indolence Tranquille, au sein de Dieu. Que peut
2866 XIII | never disturb the peace and tranquillity of the world.~Neither Montaigne,
2867 VI | Mahometan, and the Christian transact together, as though they
2868 XXII | poets. I have made some transient mention of their philosophers,
2869 XVII | may be proper to observe transiently in this place, that Sir
2870 XVI | order to operate such a transmission or reflection, or to form
2871 XVI | incessantly, and which either transmit light or reflect it, according
2872 XVI | reflects the light when dry, transmits it when oiled, because the
2873 XVIII| unique asile Apres de longs transports, c'est un sommeil tranquile.
2874 III | leather from head to foot, and travelled from one village to another,
2875 XVIII| country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
2876 XV | to east since the comets traverse those spaces, sometimes
2877 XIX | faithless mistress, cuckolds his treacherous friend, thrusts his sword
2878 XIX | and finds she had acted as treacherously with regard to the casket
2879 XXIV | Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer, and much more by the Lord
2880 X | the King of Spain of the treasures of the West Indies; and
2881 IV | neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and
2882 III | attempted to mimic them; they trembled, they spake through the
2883 XXI | Cet ile que son bras fit trembler tant de fois, Quand dans
2884 XVIII| presence, all the apish tricks of a lewd, impotent debauchee,
2885 VIII | battles, for quarrels of as trifling nature. The sects of the
2886 VII | to their notions of the Trinity, and declare very frankly
2887 XXII | a choisi son sejour, Les Tristes Aquilons y sifflent a l'
2888 XII | Bacon~Not long since the trite and frivolous question following
2889 XVIII| detournent la vue? La mort seroit trop douce en ces extremitez,
2890 XVIII| take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them?
2891 XIX | strongest pencil, and in the truest colours. He has drawn a
2892 XXII | harsh sounds of the English trumpet to the soft accents of the
2893 XVIII| men favour the deceit; Trust on and think, to-morrow
2894 IX | nocturnal meetings, or only to try, by this odd and whimsical
2895 XVIII| the English resembles a tufted tree planted by the hand
2896 III | that, his head being freed tumultuously from the hole where it was
2897 XI | beauties the seraglios of the Turkish Sultan, of the Persian Sophy,
2898 XI | could not possibly fail. The Turks, who are people of good
2899 XVII | to every one a reign of twenty-one years and a half very near.
2900 XV | revolution in that orbit in twenty-seven days, seven hours, forty-three
2901 XVII | Isaac Newton, being then twenty-three years of age, had invented
2902 XVII | Bull was situated; and the Twins are placed where the Bull
2903 Int | he was the dominant and typical literary figure. Every department
2904 IX | ancient kind of barons, not so tyrannical as their successors. These
2905 IX | increased. Thus no one is tyrannised over, and every one is easy.
2906 IX | though it was a greater tyranny. Henry VII., that happy
2907 IX | word, of all who were not tyrants-that is, those who are called
2908 Int | the Great, with whom he ultimately quarreled; and he spent
2909 XI | purpose, that this was an un-Christian operation, and therefore
2910 I | the Jewish ceremonies." "O unaccountable!" said I: "what! baptism
2911 XXII | has not yet acquired that unaffected eloquence, that plain but
2912 XII | accused of a crime very unbecoming a philosopher: I mean bribery
2913 II | folly. In this doubt and uncertainty we listen patiently to everyone;
2914 I | of our clergy. He did not uncover himself when I appeared,
2915 III | you know you are to appear uncovered before his worship?" Fox
2916 I | all thy civilities without uncovering my head, and at the same
2917 XII | these arts were invented by uncultivated, savage men.~What a prodigious
2918 XXI | shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile:
2919 VI | forced that poor monarch to undergo the hearing of three or
2920 XX | obliged to cultivate their understandings. In England the governments
2921 XIV | much as one professor would undertake to explain it; and Schotten
2922 XVII | leave the dispute still more undetermined.~~
2923 XVIII| something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn
2924 IV | citizens to be absolutely undistinguished but by the public employments,
2925 XIX | to England abandoned and undone, accompanied by his page
2926 XIV | else than of giving him uneasiness.~He left France purely to
2927 XIII | sensation, merely for them to be uninformed with this faculty; consequently
2928 XXIV | that such profound, such uninterrupted pursuits as these, such
2929 XVIII| fin de nos maux, c'est mon unique asile Apres de longs transports,
2930 XVI | coloured rays, which, being united, form white colour. A single
2931 XXII | unaccountably fantastic and unitelligible book with the most gay strokes
2932 I | contrary bless the moment which unites us with the Being of Beings;
2933 XXI | et faux, croit percer l'univers. Allez, reverends fous,
2934 XII | Aristotle's "Categories," on the universals a part rei, or such-like
2935 V | contracted by them at the University, and the little familiarity
2936 | unlike
2937 XIV | should be ebb, which very unluckily cannot be proved. For to
2938 XIII | reputation of a calm and unprejudiced divine because he did not
2939 XVII | rest of men.~Accustomed to unravel and disentangle chaos, he
2940 XIX | very much disgusted at so unseasonable a piece of vanity.~Mr. Congreve'
2941 | until
2942 XVIII| That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might
2943 V | after these had got the upper hand, they contented themselves
2944 XI | princess being assured of the usefulness of this operation, caused
2945 I | t condemn any person who uses it; but then we think that
2946 | using
2947 XXII | translated with the latitude I usually take on these occasions;
2948 I | in speaking to them; and usurped the flattering titles of
2949 XIV | he was obliged to leave Utrecht. Descartes was injuriously
2950 V | Letter V: On The Church Of England~
2951 XVII | Egyptians first employed this vague and uncertain method of
2952 X | appears monstrous to Germans, vainly puffed up with their extraction.
2953 V | book lately to prove the validity and succession of English
2954 XVIII| are of infinitely more value than all the idle rhapsodies
2955 IX | authority in the Goth and Vandal government. The popes set
2956 XV | very beneficent, and that vapours exhale from them merely
2957 XV | the celestial globes. The variations of the moon are a necessary
2958 XVIII| contemporary with Lope de Vega, and he created, as it were,
2959 XVI | animals, and of the sap in vegetables, have changed the face of
2960 XXII | bruit, des parleurs et du vent La quinteuse deesse incessamment
2961 XVIII| two great poets.~I have ventured to translate some passages
2962 XV | greater when it is nearer Venus and Mars, because the fluid
2963 XV | this great philosopher the verbal and chimerical way of reasoning
2964 XIX | was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him.
2965 XVIII| without decorum, order, or verisimilitude, dart such resplendent flashes
2966 XVII | of having first seen the vermiculi of which mankind are formed.
2967 Int | of satire, epigram, and vers de societe. Of real poetical
2968 XXI | that the restraint of our versification, and the delicacies of the
2969 XXI | always to remember that the versions I give you from the English
2970 XII | the celebrated Viscount Verulam, known in Europe by the
2971 XII | Edward IV., to walk and vex the King.~"After such time
2972 XXII | buffoons. The readers are vexed to think that a man who
2973 XVI | out the secret to see the vibrations or fits of light which come
2974 XXII | particulars our giggling rural Vicar Rabelais is wanting. The
2975 XIX | ought to be rewarded and vice punished, it is at last
2976 XII | that I have forgot his vices."~I shall therefore confine
2977 XXIII| fanatics, who at last were the victims to it; a great many pieces
2978 IX | for doves whose blood the victorious was to suck. Every nation,
2979 XVIII| eclairez mon courage. Faut-il vieillir courbe sous la main qui
2980 XXIII| immortal personages were viewed in Athens; and I am persuaded
2981 XXIV | such extensive and exalted views, will, at last, produce
2982 XI | Aumont, who enjoys the most vigorous constitution, and is the
2983 VIII | Letter VIII: On The Parliament~The members
2984 XXI | bas l'image de son Dieu. Vil atome imparfait, qui croit,
2985 XIX | virtue and honour can act so vile a part; but to convince
2986 IX | and the chiefs of their villages, an ancient kind of barons,
2987 XI | to her. Then the Duke de Villequier, father to the Duke d'Aumont,
2988 IV | take care of the London vineyard.~Their labours were crowned
2989 XVI | sixth indigo, the seventh a violet-purple. Each of these rays, transmitted
2990 XI | are very honourably and virtuously instructed to fondle and
2991 XXIII| attacked with the greater virulence because that monarch and
2992 XII | begin with the celebrated Viscount Verulam, known in Europe
2993 XXI | scholastiques, Peres de visions, et d'enigmes sacres, Auteurs
2994 XII | that Minister went and visited the Lord Bacon, who, being
2995 XXIV | body is evident enough. Vitium est temporis potius quam
2996 XV | them merely to nourish and vivify the planets, which imbibe
2997 XVIII| espoir des plaisirs Nous ne vivons jamais, nous attendons la
2998 XX | les domine, Ils ont fait voeu de pauvrete, Priant Dieu
2999 XVIII| dit-on, va combler tous nos voeus. Demain vient, et nous laisse
3000 XXI | Comparing his short life, void of all rest, To the eternal
3001 XXI | on Man":~"Cependant a le voir plein de vapeurs legeres,