The Lucubrations of Isaac BickerstaffPrinted: And to be deliver'd to Subscribers, by Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of Beauford-Buildings in the Strand, 1711 |
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Page 332 - The Mind in Infancy is, methinks, like the Body in Embryo; and receives Impressions so forcible, that they are as hard to be removed by Reason, as any Mark, with which a Child is born, is to be taken away by any future Application.
Page 331 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age ; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
Page 201 - Postman, and that he would take two or three turns to the other end of the town before his neighbours were up, to see if there were any Dutch mails come in. He had a wife and several children, but was much more inquisitive to know what passed in Poland than in his own family, and was in greater pain and anxiety of mind for king Augustus's welfare than that of his nearest relations.
Page 331 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more : for they were going to put him under ground, whence he would never come to us again.
Page 89 - I understand by their behaviour, that I am considered by them as a man of a great deal of learning, but no knowledge of the world; insomuch that the major sometimes, in the height of his military pride, calls me the Philosopher: and Sir...
Page 92 - ... light. Homer compares the noise and clamour of the Trojans advancing towards the enemy, to the cackling of cranes when they invade an army of pigmies. On the contrary, he makes his countrymen and favourites, the Greeks, move forward in a regular determined march, and in the depth of silence.
Page 159 - READING is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and; invigorated; by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.
Page 332 - ... departure. Who can have lived in an army, and in a serious hour reflect upon the many gay and agreeable men that might long have flourished in the arts of peace, and not join with the imprecations of the fatherless and widow on the tyrant to whose ambition they fell sacrifices ? But gallant...
Page 240 - Censors, in punishing offences according to the quality of the offender. It was usual for them to expel a senator, who had been guilty of great immoralities, out of the senate-house, by omitting his name when they called over the list of his brethren.
Page 91 - ... and agreeable in our declining years. The mind of man in a long life will become a magazine of wisdom or folly, and will consequently discharge itself in something impertinent or improving. For which reason, as there is nothing more ridiculous than an old trifling story-teller, so there is nothing more venerable than one who has turned his experience to the entertainment and advantage of mankind.
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| Title | The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Volume 3 of THE LUCUBRATIONS OF Isaac Bickerstaff Esq, Charles Lillie Volume 3 of The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq: Revised and Corrected, Sir Richard Steele |
| Authors | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | Printed: And to be deliver'd to Subscribers, by Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of Beauford-Buildings in the Strand, 1711 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Jun 2007 |
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