This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764 edition. Excerpt: ...have so impaired the constitution of my poor Mr. Highmoie, that I am terrified to death at the bare supposition of the consequences.--His employment all day is to recover from the excesses of the piectding evening, and his business all ni'_.ht to provide au indisposition tor the next day. O o For For God's fake, gentlemen, fay something about thole men of fense who look upon women to be ideots, and yet arc guilty of actions, that would make the meanest of us ashamed.--Is this superiority of understanding, upon which the generality of your sex so highly pique themselves, to be pleaded as an eternal excuse for indiscretions and errors, and no allowance to be made for the little failings of the poor women, tho' we are treated continually as fools? I could fay a great deal on this subject, but fearing to trespass too much upon your leisure, I (hall take my leave, And am, your's, Sec. Ahiohmori. From the Lady's Magazine. fie Hottentot Manner of Hunting and Fijbing, Continued. TH E most surprising strokes of the Hottentot dexterity are seen in their throwing of a stone. They hit a mark with a stone to a miracle of exactness, though the mark be a hundred paces distant, and no bigger than a halfpenny. I have beheld them at this exercise with the highest pleasure and astonishment; and was never weary of the spectacle. I still expected, aster repeated successes, that the stone would err 1 but I expected in vain: still went the stone right to the mark; and my pleasure and astonishment were redoubled. You would imagine thestone was destined not to err, or that you was not destined to fee it. Say people what they will of the stupidity of the Hottentots, there is nothing like their dexterity in the throwing of a stone, to be seen in. any other part of...

Excerpt from The Beauties of All the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762, Vol. 1: Including the Several Original Comic Pieces Thus far, the Nature of our Plan allows us this Month to mention the Mode; onl by wa of Polifcript we may add, t at the adies, as to their lhoe-heels, go jull as they did, no fix'd meafure, fome as broad as a tea cup's brim; fome as narrow as the China circle the cup llands upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Beauties of All the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1764: Including the Several Original Comic Pieces, to Be Continued the Middle of Every Month He took me out, and told me that there were a couple of high girls in great keeping, who could only now and then deal out for an hour; they came for a frolic, had a mind to be jolly that evening, and keep it up, and he had font for me to make one of the party. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Beauties of All the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1763, Vol. 2: Including the Several Original Comic Pieces It was with fome difficulty, and keep ing very clore to my ti ieud Scrip, that I could get through the crowd, the room was lo full; atter much lhueezing, we pal's'd the Straits, and fately landed at the bench under the clock, which, by great chance, happen'd at that moment to be empty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book explores what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile as a person and writer – namely, his attitude to social improvement. The interpretive framework provided here is cross-disciplinary, and applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and, of course, English literature. This allows Johnson’s writings to be read against the peculiarities of their historical milieu, and reveals Johnson in a new light – as an advocate of social improvement for human betterment. Considering the multiplicity of narrative modes that have been employed, the book points to the blurred boundaries and overlapping between history, testimony and fiction, and argues that a future biography of Samuel Johnson has to recognise that throughout his life he valued the utilitarian aspect of his manifesto as a writer to impart a more charitable attitude in the pursuit of a more caring society.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1763 edition. Excerpt: ...strictly with you. Q, Jt was the fault, first, of my most caprj capricious collegue, who never knew his own mind two days together, and who'had most imprudently tied himself" down by the molt solemn declarations to the public, of having neither place nor prosit for himself; which he afterwards cursed himself for, and, by the way, in his heart he loved them both better than ever you did. Then, of 'the wretched tools which we brought in with us, and which there was no working with. Your old tools, which, by he bye, were d--d blunt ones, would not trust me, and my new ones could not serve me. 0. That was pity, for you lost a fine, bloody, and expensive war by it, calculated for your great ideas. Tell me lioncllly, would you have made the last "war? G. Yes, by G--, would I. O. Would you have made the last peace? G.' No, I would have been hanged first. O. But we were told here, that you promoted and fostered it in council, G. That is false. I will tell you truly the whole of that affair. The scene was' now totally changed. A young minister, tit' net a young man, ivas on a suitkn bteeme omnipotent, by mere savour, without remarkable abilities, or tie haft degree of experience in bufintjs. However, by the presumption that always accompanies ignorance, he boldly undertook the whole machine; but, conjeious that he bad not credit fisticient to rarfr the supplies neleffary to continue the ivar, nor the abilities to cc.rry it en, he resolved at all events to mukc a state, 4tnd any peace rather than none. This he ivas imprudent enough to declare publicly, and France ivas msife enough to avail itself of that filly declarciic:: . And so the preliminaries of a peace were pre cipitately azd bungltng/y patched up. 1 /ton discovered, that...