admin | November 29, 2011
Psalms, and the Litanies of all the Saints, all had their set prices. Some of these penances were of a still more formidable nature, and then the reward was proportionable ; the following are some of them :Thf: penitent to hear three successive masses in the church of the Jesuits, bare knee’d on the marble [...]
admin | November 27, 2011
Mr. Bucknill went away. Of this visit Sir William heard, and wrote again, requesting that Mr. Bucknill and his own apothecary,. Mr. Snow, might do what it was so desirable should be done; but here another jostle of circumstances took place. Owing to their professional engagements, the two gentlemen missed of each other ; Mr. [...]
admin | November 24, 2011
Harris, on his defence, endeavoured to invalidate the charge by assertions, that the whole of Morgan’s evidence was false ; that the money which he buried was his own property, honestly come by, and buried there for his better security ; and that his behaviour before the magistrate on this particular, arose from the shame [...]
admin | November 22, 2011
Another of the fugitives took refuge in the house of a friend, in an obscure street near the ‘Change, who consented to conceal him. Almost at the instant of his en, tering, a party of those who had been sent in pursuit of the prisoners, came into the house to make a search thereThe fugitive, [...]
admin | November 20, 2011
But such security is not sought nor expected in the course of worldly businessthe most prudent trader is glad to set out with the probability of successfor this he risks and may lose his allif he gains, what is his gain” what will it profit a man, if he should ” gain the whole world [...]
admin | November 17, 2011
I knew how to repair the wrongs I had done. She spared me this justification. The gondolier whom I had sent to her apartment brought me for answer that she had set off, the evening before, for Florence. If I had not felt all the love I had for her person when this was in [...]
admin | November 15, 2011
I there met with M. Bonnefond, a man unacquainted with the world, lame, litigious, and who affected to be a purist. To him I owe the acquaintance of M. Roguin, at present the oldest friend I have and by whose means I became acquainted with Diderot, of whom shall soon have occasion to say a good [...]
admin | November 13, 2011
Her daughter too made me uneasy, for, spite of myself, I thought more of her than was necessary. I trembled lest I should fall in love with this girl, and that very fear had already half done the business. Was I going, in return for the mother’s kindness, to seek the ruin of the daughter? [...]
admin | November 10, 2011
The Prince of Prussia had not been happy in his youth, and it appeared that Voltaire was formed never to be so. The interest we took in both parties extended to all that concerned them, and nothing that Voltaire wrote escaped us. The inclination I felt for these performances inspired me with a desire to [...]
admin | November 8, 2011
Madam de Warrens, that I might surprise her the more agreeably on her return. Sometimes I quitted this dear friend, that I might enjoy the uninterrupted pleasure of thinking on her; this was a caprice I can neither excuse nor fully explain, I only know this really was the case, and therefore I avow it. [...]
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