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Σελίδα 186 - has said in a famous passage, ' so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of
Σελίδα 184 - honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.' It is believed however that this brilliant declamation is almost entirely Johnson's own ; the
Σελίδα 50 - all the pews in a parish church are the common property of the parish ; they are for the use in common of the parishioners, who are all entitled to be seated orderly and conveniently so as best to provide for the accommodation of all.' The right of appointing what persons shall sit in each
Σελίδα 125 - take upon him to exercise or occupy as a physician, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the bishop of London, or by the dean of St. Paul's, for the time being, calling to him or them four doctors of physic ; upon the pain of forfeiture, for every
Σελίδα 260 - Pomponianus and the rest of the company, who were not sufficiently unconcerned to think of going to bed. They consulted together whether it would be most prudent to trust to the houses, which now shook from side to side with frequent and violent
Σελίδα 185 - in which Pitt had no place, but whose measures generally had his support, although in the debate on the address in January, 1766, he declared that he could not give them his confidence, adding, while he bowed to the treasury bench, ' Pardon me. gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom ; youth is the season of credulity.
Σελίδα 32 - charge, without common consent by act of parliament,—that none be called upon to make answer for refusal so to do,—that freemen be imprisoned or detained only by the law of the land, or by due process of law, and not by the king's special command, without any charge,—that persons
Σελίδα 125 - that no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise or occupy as a physician, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the bishop of London, or by the dean of St. Paul's,
Σελίδα 250 - organization which so admirably fits the Ichthyosaurus to cut through the waves. May it not therefore be concluded (since, in addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to
Σελίδα 33 - of rocks tinted with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits present to us nature in her most savage and romantic form, while their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and regularity of art, with colonnades and pediments, and ranges of corridors adhering to the perpendicular surface.