“Sir!” cried Mr. Delvile, with a look meant to be nothing less than petrific.

The bulk of Mankind have not leisure for Learning and Logick, and superfine distinctions of the Schools.

In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.

The Italian sailors of the Mediterranean, and the Greeks of the Archipelago, who very rarely leave behind them the pillars of Hercules, are for the most part married, because their voyages are of short duration, and they can often return to the bosoms of their families: but the English, who by the immeasurability of their commerce are citizens of the world, would, if they were married, too seldom enjoy their home.