Scrapeana. Fugitive miscellanyJohn CROFT (S.A.S.) 1792 |
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... son , If thou hadst worn a wig Thou hadst not been undone . Mr. F. met the Rev. Mr. B. his quondam fchool - mafter at York , as he returned from the church with his bride , Mifs Place , on which the former quoted to him this line out of ...
... son , If thou hadst worn a wig Thou hadst not been undone . Mr. F. met the Rev. Mr. B. his quondam fchool - mafter at York , as he returned from the church with his bride , Mifs Place , on which the former quoted to him this line out of ...
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... confequence fined two bumpers . A Spartan Mother to her Son , who complained that his sword was short , faid , do you add a step to it . A Captain of a Ship of War unluckily had his E 2 A ( 35 ) romancy, and turned a fortune-teller. An ...
... confequence fined two bumpers . A Spartan Mother to her Son , who complained that his sword was short , faid , do you add a step to it . A Captain of a Ship of War unluckily had his E 2 A ( 35 ) romancy, and turned a fortune-teller. An ...
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... son of Apelles . Garrick told Cibber , " That his Pieces were the best ventilators to his Theatre at Drury . Lane ; for as foon as any of them were played , the audience directly left the house . " A A Friar was preaching in Portugal ...
... son of Apelles . Garrick told Cibber , " That his Pieces were the best ventilators to his Theatre at Drury . Lane ; for as foon as any of them were played , the audience directly left the house . " A A Friar was preaching in Portugal ...
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... fhip , for a horfe will as foon throw the son of a King as the fon of a private man . Pere Andre , a celebrated French preacher , in a difcourfe on Dives Day , compared a poor man man to a hen , and a rich man , ( 133 )
... fhip , for a horfe will as foon throw the son of a King as the fon of a private man . Pere Andre , a celebrated French preacher , in a difcourfe on Dives Day , compared a poor man man to a hen , and a rich man , ( 133 )
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... son of Archbishop Potter , who lived in a deep and dirty part of Kent , through which Young had scrambled with fome difficulty and danger . " Whofe field was that I croffed ? " afked Young , on reaching his friend . " Mine , " faid ...
... son of Archbishop Potter , who lived in a deep and dirty part of Kent , through which Young had scrambled with fome difficulty and danger . " Whofe field was that I croffed ? " afked Young , on reaching his friend . " Mine , " faid ...
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Page 278 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 201 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve ; pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things which we are not worthy to ask, but through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord.
Page 252 - Therefore, as to the curbing desires, I am willing to undergo any abstinence from food as you please to enjoin me ; but I cannot, with any quiet of mind, live in the neglect of a necessary duty and an express commandment, Increase and multiply.
Page 239 - MONEY makes a Man laugh. A blind Fiddler playing to a Company, and playing but Scurvily, the Company laughed at him ; his boy that led him, perceiving it, cried, Father, let us be gone, they do nothing but laugh at you.
Page 249 - Milk which is drawn from the cow, that ufeful animal that eats the grafs of the field, and fupplies us with that which made the greateft part of the food of mankind, in the age which the poets have agreed to call Golden. " It is made with an egg, that miracle of...
Page 131 - And being then alked, why he did not difcharge them, declared that they were bailiffs who had introduced themfelves with an execution, and whom, fince he could not fend them away, he had thought it convenient to embellifh with liveries, that they might do him credit while they flaid.
Page 234 - Three days after he came to me to my chamber, and professed he was now as well as ever he was in his life, and did extremely thank me for the great care I had taken of him. I, fearing lest he might relapse into the like distemper, told him that there was none but myself, and one physician more in the whole town that could cure the devils in the head, and that was Dr. Harvey (whom I had prepared), and wished him, if ever he found himself ill in my absence, to go to him, for he could cure his disease...
Page 234 - Well, said I, I am glad two of them are gone; I make no doubt but to get away the other two likewise. So I gave him another thing to hang about his Neck. Three Days after he came to me to my Chamber and...
Page 233 - Temple, and told me he had two devils in his head (I wondered what he meant), and just at that time, one of them bid him kill me (with that I begun to be afraid, and thought he was mad); he said he knew I could cure him, and therefore entreated me to give him something, for he was resolved he would go to nobody else.
Page 250 - Bickerstaff, you see before you the unhappiest of women; and therefore, as you are esteemed by all the world both a great civilian, as well as an astrologer, I must desire...