THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURTY |
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... Duels - Dr . Johnson on Duelling - A Weaver's Duel - The " Fields behind Montague House " -The Duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun - Impromptu Duels 143 CHAPTER XIV . STATE OF THE ROADS . The Streets of London - Progress of ...
... Duels - Dr . Johnson on Duelling - A Weaver's Duel - The " Fields behind Montague House " -The Duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun - Impromptu Duels 143 CHAPTER XIV . STATE OF THE ROADS . The Streets of London - Progress of ...
第 10 頁
... duel with an officer of whom he knew nothing , and he accordingly found himself slighted , " Not - at - homed , " cut , and finally sent to Coventry by his acquaintance . Fallen from his sphere , he was content to join stars of less ...
... duel with an officer of whom he knew nothing , and he accordingly found himself slighted , " Not - at - homed , " cut , and finally sent to Coventry by his acquaintance . Fallen from his sphere , he was content to join stars of less ...
第 143 頁
... duels more frequent in the last century than they are at present . The inefficiency of the watch , the un- lighted ... duel was accordingly " got up , " and fought - frequently in the room , even , where the dispute arose — as in the ...
... duels more frequent in the last century than they are at present . The inefficiency of the watch , the un- lighted ... duel was accordingly " got up , " and fought - frequently in the room , even , where the dispute arose — as in the ...
第 144 頁
... duel almost a necessary resentment of an affront , punishment of an injury , or settlement of a dispute . What says Dr. John- son ? " He , then , who fights a duel does not fight from passion against his antagonist , but out of self ...
... duel almost a necessary resentment of an affront , punishment of an injury , or settlement of a dispute . What says Dr. John- son ? " He , then , who fights a duel does not fight from passion against his antagonist , but out of self ...
第 145 頁
... duel ; every frivolous dispute was followed by a combat ; and the persons who had been discussing some political ... duels in it ? It was the fashion for friends to run each other through the body , and the occurrence was , perhaps ...
... duel ; every frivolous dispute was followed by a combat ; and the persons who had been discussing some political ... duels in it ? It was the fashion for friends to run each other through the body , and the occurrence was , perhaps ...
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第 315 頁 - It is said, he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege, fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked Bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
第 316 頁 - Roger's family, because it consists of sober and staid persons; for, as the Knight is the best master in the world, he seldom changes his servants; and as he is beloved by all about him, his servants never care for leaving him; by this means his domestics are all in years, and grown old with their master. You would take his valet...
第 316 頁 - Roger, and has lived at his house in the nature of a chaplain above thirty years. This gentleman is a person of good sense and some learning, of a very regular life and obliging conversation : he heartily loves Sir Roger, and knows that he is very much in the old knight's esteem, so that he lives in the family rather as a relation than a dependent.
第 314 頁 - The first of our society is a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley". His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance" which is called after him. All who know ' that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world only as he thinks the world is in the...
第 317 頁 - ... behalf of one or other of my tenants his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them; if any dispute arises, they apply themselves to him for the decision; if they do not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once or twice at most, they appeal to me. At his first settling with me...
第 317 頁 - I have given him the parsonage of the parish; and because I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and though he does...
第 317 頁 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer, told me that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
第 37 頁 - Their petticoats, which began to heave and swell before you left us, are now blown up into a most enormous concave, and rise every day more and more. In short, sir, since our women know themselves to be out of the eye of the Spectator, they will be kept within no compass.
第 30 頁 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory, I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men *. The women were of such an enormous stature, that ' we appeared as grasshoppers before them t.
第 160 頁 - ... breakings down. They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep, and floating with mud, only from a wet summer.