A Gallery of Eccentrics; Or, A Set of Twelve Originals & Extravagants from Elagabalus: The Waggish Emperor to Mr. Professor Porson, the Tippling Philologer, Designed to Serve, by Example, for the Correction of Manners & for the Edification of the IngeniousMinton, Balch, 1928 - 249 עמודים |
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עמוד 177 - The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small•pox...
עמוד 178 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
עמוד 116 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
עמוד 178 - ... the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the BEST SORT OF SMALL-POX and asks what veins you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after...
עמוד 180 - My blessed offspring has already made a great noise in the world. That young rake, my son, took to his heels t'other day, and transported his person to Oxford; being in his own opinion thoroughly qualified for the University. After a good deal of search, we found and reduced him, much against his will, to the humble condition of a schoolboy. It happens very luckily that the sobriety and discretion is of my daughter's side ; I am sorry the ugliness is so too, for my son grows extremely handsome.
עמוד 185 - He is so much altered in person I should scarcely have known him. He has entirely lost his beauty, and looks at least seven years older than he did ; and the wildness that he always had in his eyes is so much increased, it is downright shocking, and I am afraid will end fatally.
עמוד 59 - ... and after he had waded through many waters, taken excessive pains in quest of his game, and by means thereof had killed some five or six moor fowls and partridges, which he brought along with him to my house, he was by some other gentlemen, who chanced to alight at my gate, as he...
עמוד 140 - Blackbourn, the jolly old Archbishop of York, who had all the manners of a man of quality, though he had been a buccaneer, and was a clergyman; but he retained nothing of his first profession, except his seraglio.— vol.
עמוד 151 - Among these extravagant people, by the insinuating subtilty of his carriage, he quickly got so much of their love and esteem as that they discovered to him their mystery.
עמוד 75 - And measure out this only dame. Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care ! Over whose heads those arrows fly Of sad distrust and jealousy ; Secured in as high extreme, As if the world held none but them. To him the fairest nymphs do show Like moving mountains...