The first of them is the period of unknown anliquity, when the cultivation of knowledge began to be an exclusive occupation, and a separate profession among those colleges of priests, who, whether established on the banks of llie Ganges, the Euphrates, or the Nile, appear to have been Ihe earliest instructors of the human species. [...]
I received this letter by the post on Monday morning, and therefore its appointment was for next day. Let me confess exactly with what feelings looked forward to Joe’s coming.Not with pleasure, though I was bound to him by so many ties; no: with considerable disturbance, some mortification, and a keen sense of incongruity. If [...]
At this time, as some old readers may recollect, the genteel world had been thrown into a considerable state of excitement by two events, which, as the papers say, might give employment to the gentlemen of the long robe. Ensign Shafton had run away with Lady Barbara Fitzurse, the Earl of Bruin’s daughter and heiress; [...]
Mr. de Beaumont, a celebrated advocate of the parliament of Paris, immediately undertook her cause, and stated an opinion on it, which was signed by fifteen advocates. Mr. Loiseau, a man no less eloquent than Mr. de Beaumont, wrote a memorial in favour of the family; and Mr. Mariette, advocate of the council, drew up [...]
AR instance of intrepidity took place at Agonda, near Goa, on the st of March, . Early in the morning a report was received at the cantonments, that a large Cheetur had been seen on the rocks near the sea. About nine o’clock, a number of officers and men assembled at the spot where it [...]
I thus calmly waited for the moment when I was to be without money; and had not Father Castel, whom I sometimes went to see in my way to the coffeehouse, roused me from my lethargy, I believe I should have seen myself reduced to my last farthing without the least emotion. Father Castel was [...]
Bouchard, which was frequented by some men of letters, and as the spring whose return I had never expected to see again was approaching, furnished myself with some books for Charmettes, in case I should have the happiness to return there. I had that happiness, and enjoyed it to the utmost extent. The rapture with which [...]
Thus the deceiver obtained his end in the subverting the reason of a girl; whose heart he found it impossible to corrupt, and received his punishment in a devouring jealousy, being persuaded she would treat him as he had prevailed on her to treat her husband. I don’t know whether he was mistaken in this respect: [...]
By continuing to teach music, I insensibly gained some knowledge of it. The life I led was sufficiently agreeable, and any reasonable man might have been satisfied, but my unsettled heart demanded something more. On Sundays, or whenever I had leisure, I wandered, sighing and thoughtful, about the adjoining woods, and when once out of [...]
October of this year, when Mr. Reed left Chiswell Street, and wrote the letter alluded to; and the subsequent conversation, as given in my Memoirs, vol. i. pp. , and which is referred to in ” No Fiction,” vol i. pp. . I have stated in my Memoirs, that I was indebted a sum of [...]
