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3002 XXI | par des tempetes, Et la voix des tonnerres eclatant sur
3003 XXII | obliged to write a large volume, and that, after much pains
3004 XXIV | than others who are mere volunteers. It must indeed be confessed
3005 XI | to heighten by the most voluptuous artifices the pleasures
3006 XVIII| nous devore, Nul de nous ne voudroit recommencer son cours. De
3007 XX | tongue: ~"Qu'ay je donc vu dans l'Italie? Orgueil,
3008 XVIII| ingrats qui detournent la vue? La mort seroit trop douce
3009 VIII | at a very high price, and waded through seas of blood to
3010 XIX | commodious enough. Some wag, in an epitaph he made on
3011 XVIII| not give. I'm tired with waiting for his chymic gold, Which
3012 XVI | itself through the whole, waits only to be projected forward
3013 I | reasoning. Accordingly I waived the subject.~"Well", said
3014 XI | experiment to the Princess of Wales, now Queen of England. It
3015 XII | second to King Edward IV., to walk and vex the King.~"After
3016 XV | near Cambridge; as he was walking one day in his garden, and
3017 XVII | but went not farther. Dr. Wallis, about the middle of the
3018 XIX | apartments but as spacious as the walls are thick, this castle would
3019 XI | and madmen, because they wantonly communicate a certain and
3020 XII | Burgundy) thought he (Perkin Warbeck) was perfect in his lesson,
3021 XXIII| Sir Isaac Newton was made Warden of the Royal Mint. Mr. Congrefe
3022 II | you," said I, with some warmth, "to know whether your discourse
3023 III | man. If, after all these warnings and advertisements, thou
3024 XII | Newton, &c. Afterwards the warriors and Ministers of State shall
3025 I | but circumcision and the washing with water ought to be abolished
3026 XI | trading nation is always watchful over its own interests,
3027 XXIV | shall amass prodigious wealth in trade, shall become a
3028 XI | immediately upon their being weaned.~Some pretend that the Circassians
3029 VI | gait, puts on a sour look, wears a vastly broad-brimmed hat
3030 III | Leicestershire, and son to a silk weaver, took it into his head to
3031 XIII | could be to fancy that some weeks after I was conceived I
3032 VIII | great monarch of his life. Weigh, I say, all these wicked
3033 XII | whether the strength of the weights decreases on the mountain
3034 VI | yet all others are very welcome to come and settle in it,
3035 XVII | infinites than at the so well-known proposition, viz., that
3036 Int | 1694. His father was a well-to-do notary, and Francois was
3037 XII | storm had driven as far westward as the Caribbean Islands.
3038 | whereby
3039 XI | hence in France out of mere whim, in case the English should
3040 XXI | Yet, pleased with idle whimsies of his brain, And puffed
3041 XV | philosophers have imagined a vast whirlpool of subtile matter, in which
3042 VI | and gives the name of the whore of Babylon to all churches
3043 XVIII| piece, a man strangles his wife on the stage; and that the
3044 VIII | considered the plebeians as a wild beast, whom it behoved them
3045 I | disciples likewise all who were willing to submit to that carnal
3046 I | his cause; nor attempt to win over a fanatic by strength
3047 XXII | dreaded east is all the wind that blows. Here, in a grotto,
3048 XVII | enabled to trace its various windings.~Descartes got the start
3049 VII | throw the bishop out of the window, when the good old man gave
3050 V | mischief than the breaking the windows of some meeting-houses and
3051 XXI | schools; Borne on whose wings each heavy sot can pierce
3052 IV | naturally eloquent, having a winning aspect, and a very engaging
3053 XVII | middle of Cancer, and our winter solstice to the middle of
3054 I | traded thirty years, had the wisdom to prescribe limits to his
3055 VIII | they seeming to be grown wiser at their own expense; and
3056 XXIII| myself, I could presume top wish that the magistrates would
3057 XXI | charming ointments make an old witch fly, And bear a crippled
3058 XIV | of Holland, into which he withdrew, as in his own country.
3059 XIX | flocked to him with their wives, and now poor Horner is
3060 I | is, that we are neither wolves, tigers, nor mastiffs, but
3061 XIV | ever had any commerce with women-a circumstance which was assured
3062 XVI | of light.~But all these wonders are merely but the opening
3063 IX | peasants are not bruised by wooden shoes; they eat white bread,
3064 IV | instead of flying into the woods, cultivated by insensible
3065 X | fuller's-earth, and coarse wool, should become so powerful
3066 IX | in several parts of the world-they were villains or bondsmen
3067 XXIII| thought himself damned had he worn a cassock instead of a short
3068 XXIV | to display a thread-bare, worn-out subject in a new and uncommon
3069 III | appear uncovered before his worship?" Fox presented his other
3070 XXI | And from obeying fell to worshipping. On Oeta's top thus Hercules
3071 XXIV | have sometimes made the worst speeches, I answer, that
3072 XIX | it may be thought, is yet worth a thousand crowns a year (
3073 XIX | friend, who is the most worthless wretch living. At the same
3074 II | earth that have no priests. Wouldst thou deprive us of so happy
3075 VIII | people of England would be wounded." The singularity of the
3076 XXII | sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown, for sickness
3077 XIX | who is the most worthless wretch living. At the same time
3078 XXII | like an ancient maid, Her wrinkled form in black and white
3079 III | mankind. He thereupon began to writhe his body, to screw up his
3080 III | miracles, and accordingly they wrought some.~Fox, this modern patriarch,
3081 II | after making a variety of wry faces and groaning in a
3082 X | Letter X: On Trade~As trade enriched
3083 XI | Letter XI: On Inoculation~It is inadvertently
3084 XII | Letter XII: On The Lord Bacon~Not long
3085 XIII | Letter XIII: On Mr. Locke~Perhaps no
3086 XIX | Letter XIX: On Comedy~I am suprised
3087 XVI | Letter XVI: On Sir Isaac Newton's Optics~
3088 XVII | Letter XVII: On Infinites In Geometry,
3089 XVIII| Letter XVIII: On Tragedy~The English
3090 XX | Letter XX: On Such Of The Nobility
3091 XXII | Letter XXII: On Mr. Pope And Some Other
3092 XXIII| Letter XXIII: On The Regard That Ought
3093 XXIV | Letter XXIV: On The Royal Society And
3094 IX | It appears, by Article XXXII., that these pretended freemen
3095 XXIV | the sullen satisfaction of yawning over these productions.
3096 I | truth by sealing it with our yea or nay; and the judges believe
3097 XXIII| women, might have obtained a yearly pension of twelve hundred
3098 XI | the arm it is laid in as yeast in a piece of dough; it
3099 | Yes
3100 V | services; and we never see youngsters made bishops or colonels
3101 Int | prose fiction he wrote "Zadig," "Candide," and many admirable
3102 Int | successful dramas including "Zaire," "Oedipe," "La Mort de
3103 VIII | about syllogisms, as some zealots among them once did.~But
3104 XVII | Cancer.~Now every sign of the zodiac contains thirty degrees.
3105 I | nor any of my brethren." "Zounds!" said I to him, "you are
3106 VII | that Luther, Calvin, and Zuinglius, all of 'em wretched authors,