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...d-times more cunningly devised poetical turning-loom, than that of Swift’s Philosophers in Laputa. Johnson’s prose is true, indeed, and sound, and ful... ...how to rise above it. Governments naturally at- tempt the first expedient; Philosophers, in general, the second. The Poet, says Schiller, is a citizen... ...rt, with which many houses were provided, was called a frame (Geräms). The women sat in it to sew and knit; the *A chief judge or magistrate of the to... ... as the earnest and noble form and the blue eyes of Charles Seventh on the women. At any rate, both sexes vied with each other in giving to the attent... ...ner- ally a cheerful, quiet man, and fond of ease, became impa- tient. The women vainly endeavored to smother the flames; 64 Autobiography and, after... ... I will also mention that I saw Diderot’s “Father of a Fam- ily,” and “The Philosophers” of Palissot, and still perfectly remember the figure of the p... ...habitants of the Eastern countries in their strange dresses, the Poles and Russians, and, above all, the Greeks, for the sake of whose handsome forms ...

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... day, who think Fielding’s micro- cosm a “toylike world,” and imagine that Russian Nihilists and French Naturalists have gone beyond it. It will decei... ...ketches may require the cau- tion that they are eighteenth-century men and women; some the warning that they are obviously caricatured, or set in desi... ... wonderful thing than any of their unlike- nesses. It is that they are all women, that they are all live citizenesses of the Land of Matters Unforgot,... ...er, con- jectures this to have been the founder of that sect of laugh- ing philosophers since called Merry-andrews. To waive, therefore, a circumstanc... ...d at him at table, and in- dulged him in all those innocent freedoms which women of figure may permit without the least sully of their virtue. But tho... ...heroic virtue. Thou odious, deformed monster! whom priests have railed at, philosophers despised, and poets ridiculed; is 77 Fielding there a wretch ... ...he carried with him nine volumes of sermons, and not being of that sect of philosophers who can reduce all the matter of the world into a nutshell, se...

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...ant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold ... ...the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese,... ...ngs. Y et,’ looking full upon her, ‘you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their busi- ness to do with you, and ... ...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...of; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the de... ...e seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people’s individuality, ... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri...

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..., who were his nearest connections on the side of the Pallisers. They were women to whom he had ever been kind, but to whom he had never opened his he... ...ndship. But she knew also—no one knew better—that the judgement of men and women does not always run parallel with facts. She entertained, too, a conv... ...rs Finn could not but remember that the friend she had lost was not, among women, the one best able to give a girl good counsel in such a crisis. ‘Why... ...ng;— few, perhaps, do, beyond the feeling that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or... ...have a glass of brandy-and-water and then lounge till dinner-time. But the philosophers received the proposition with stern dis- dain. Was his Lordshi... ...gh, the philoso- phers thought that a man should complete the furrows! The philosophers’ view had just carried the day, the dis- cussion having been h... ...al candidates should be intro- duced. ‘It will take ten minutes,’ said the philosophers; ‘but then it will take them ten minutes too. ’ Upon this Tre...

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...eems to me, the deepest of errors. Great theologians are they, and eminent philosophers, who have presumed that (as a matter of course) all religions,... ...has been committed on this subject, not by scholars only, but by religious philosophers. The relation of Christian ethics (which word ethics, how- eve... ...ghout Christendom to murder harmless, friendless, and oftentimes crazy old women. Meantime the witch of Endor in no respect re- sembled our modern dom... ...rous warrant; until at last the fiery fur- nace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar’s ... ...it? Who first no- ticed hunger and cold as awful realities afflicting poor women and innocent children? Who first made a public provision to meet thes... ...sule Romam!’ and he mentioned the fact at all only for the sake of Natural Philosophers or of the curious in old women. Char- ity, even in that sense,... ...th century. The merest possibility exists, that in Armenia, or in a Graeco-Russian monastery on Mount Athos, or in Pompeii, &c., some authors hitherto...

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...m were inaccessible. He mentions all told more than fifty names of men and women whom he consulted for infor- mation, to which number many others shou... ...pon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversa- tion.’ Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciou... ...ous and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third down to the cat ... ...his produced a trium- phant roar of laughter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so ... ... I heard him maintain the superiority of Sir Isaac Newton over all foreign philosophers, with a dignity and eloquence that surprized that learned fore... ...rdinary exertions of that distinguishing faculty of man, which has puzzled philosophers so much to explain. Johnson’s laugh was as remarkable as any c... ... The Empress of Russia has ordered the Rambler to be trans- lated into the Russian language: so I shall be read on the banks of the Wolga. Horace boas...

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... is not a cabbage. In Spain they are all curtains—a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in thei... ... the game,” continued Hop-Frog, “lies in the fright it occasions among the women.” “Capital!” roared in chorus the monarch and his ministry. “I will e... ...vage cries, among the crowd of delicately and gor- geously habited men and women. The contrast is inimitable!” “It must be,” said the king: and the co... ...ts of some kind in real- ity, if not precisely ourang-outangs. Many of the women 27 V olume Five swooned with affright; and had not the king taken th... ...lming principle, as I have already described it to you, it occurred to our philosophers that a laudable curiosity might be gratified, and, at the same...

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...ant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold ... ...the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese,... ...ngs. Y et,’ looking full upon her, ‘you may be sure that there are men and women already on their road, who have their busi- ness to do with you, and ... ...me—unlike the last theme in the mind, according to the observation of most philosophers—the subject of Mrs Flintwinch’s dream. It seemed to her that s... ...of; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the de... ...e seen in Rag Fair. All of them wore the cast-off clothes of other men and women, were made up of patches and pieces of other people’s individuality, ... ...y led to its having something to do with everything. Mechanicians, natural philosophers, soldiers, sailors, petitioners, memorialists, people with gri... ...t, the land of a host of past and present abstract philoso- phers, natural philosophers, and subduers of Nature and Art in their myriad forms, called ...

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...son, disclosed at once the presence of one of those angels upon earth that women in adversity can be. It was a hard fate that she was watching over. M... ...mong the older negroes of the place. At length one of the most aged of the women said that she had heard of such a place as Bessop’s Castle, and thoug... ...Some few are mountebanks. Others more particularly be- long to the race of philosophers. The greatest portion, how- ever — those especially who belabo... ...at a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instruments! what a parcel of philosophers!” Come let us be off. “Stay a moment! I see a vast hubbub in t... ...g the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling ques- tions, are not beyond all conjecture. —Sir ... ...ds of the shrill voice. Spoke quick and unevenly. Thinks it the voice of a Russian. Corroborates the general testimony. Is an Italian. Never conversed... ...has no knowledge of the En- glish.’ The Italian believes it the voice of a Russian, but ‘has never conversed with a native of Russia.’ A second French...

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...e busi- ness of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosophers, or men of speculation, whose trade it is not to do any thing,... ...rds occupa- 16 The Wealth of Nations tion to a peculiar tribe or class of philosophers; and this subdivision of employment in philosophy, as well as ... ... and is generally exhausted by two or three. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station. Luxury, in ... ...e men-servants, who leave their masters, become independent labourers. The women return to their parents, and commonly spin, in order to make clothes ... ...art of men have of their own abilities, is an ancient evil remarked by the philosophers and moralists of all ages. Their absurd presumption in their o... ... The chairmen, porters, and coal- heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful wo... ...ns T urkey market, which, during the distress of the country , and while a Russian fleet was cruizing in the Archipelago, had been very poorly supplie... ...language in which the mandarins of Pekin used to talk to Mr. De Lange, the Russian envoy, concerning it {See the Journal of Mr. De Lange, in Bell’s T ... ... fit to face the hardiest and most experienced veterans. In 1756, when the Russian army marched into Poland, the valour of the Russian soldiers did no...

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...rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir powerfu... ...urest seise them both Grip’t in each paw: when ADAM first of men To first of women EVE thus moving speech, Turnd him all eare to heare new utterance f... ...ome my crime, And thou th’ accuser. Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her Will rule; restraint she will not brook, And ... ...o hee Departing gave command, and they observ’d. As when the TARTAR from his RUSSIAN Foe By ASTRACAN over the Snowie Plaines Retires, or BACTRIAN Soph... ...SE, or where The PERSIAN in ECBATAN sate, or since In HISPAHAN, or where the RUSSIAN KSAR In MOSCO, or the Sultan in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN born; nor cou... ...on the Plain Long had not walkt, when from the Tents behold A Beavie of fair Women, richly gay Paradise Lost Milton 193 In Gems and wanton dress; ...