The Craftsman, Volume 9R. Francelin, 1737 |
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Page 18 - Money in the Houfe of Commons, while his Soldiers are perhaps taking it away at their Quarters, for Want of his Prefence to reftrain them, and of better Difcipline among them: Nay, perhaps his Troop or Regiment may be in fome...
Page 42 - No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
Page 28 - And may not I have leave impartially To search and censure Dryden's works, and try If those gross faults his choice pen doth commit, Proceed from want of judgment, or of wit? Or if his lumpish fancy does refuse Spirit and grace to his loose slattern muse? Five hundred verses every morning writ, Prove him no more a poet than a wit.
Page 211 - Kingstone, as registered in our daily chronicles, is literally authentic, and so is the respect paid to her in the King's bench, though I suppose, penned by herself, For little Brimstones oft submit to fate That great ones may enjoy the world in state.
Page 63 - I confidently believe him the most dangerous minister, and the most insupportable to free subjects, that can be charactered. I believe his practices in themselves have been as high and tyrannical as any subject ever ventured upon ; and the malignity of them is greatly aggravated by those abilities of his, whereof God has given him the use, but the devil the application.
Page 195 - So, unless you offer sacrifice to the idol justices, of sheep or oxen, they know you not. If a warrant come from the Lords of the Council...
Page 47 - Blake answered, that if he had sent a complaint to him of it, he would have punished them severely, since he would not suffer his men to affront the established religion of any place at which he touched : but he took it ill, that he set on the Spaniards to do it, for he would have all the world to know that an Englishman was only to be punished by an Englishman...
Page 195 - Nay, if he be to send out a warrant upon a man's request, to have any fetcht in upon suspicion of felony, or the like, he will write the warrant himself, and you must put two shillings in his pocket as his clerk's fee (when God knows he keeps but two or three hindes) for his better maintenance.
Page 22 - difpofed away in fo fair a Manner as ought to be ; " and I am afraid They will fay their Money is not
Page 26 - Pri" vileges much better than We do ours, are not en" flaved by our Rules ; but, though there be a Score of *' Them together, exert the Faculty of Speech all at " once ; and really, if We do but remember that it