And which [w]ay (If of these two you were to chuse a husband) Doth your affection sway you?
And which way (if of these two you were to chuse a Husband) doth your affection sway you?
The landlady now returned to know if we did not chuse a more genteel apartment, to which assenting, we were shewn a room, where we could converse more freely.
He ordered him at the same time to be gone, and from all his former domestics to chuse one such as he should think proper, which was all that should be granted to attend him.
But whatever happens, she shall chuse better company than such low-lived fellows as he.
Then since our Virgin Thoughts are apt to Rove, And few escape that Noble Passion Love, Teach me, Belinda, by thy Arts to Chuse What Suiters to Admit, and which Refuse.
If Heav'n the grateful Liberty wou'd give, That I might chuse my Method how to live And all those Hours propitious Fate shou'd lend, In blisful Ease and Satisfaction spend.
I thinke I cannot chuse but stay there: and the waters, the seasons, the disposition of the countrey, and other accidents wil direct mee what is best to be done.
For when they were in bondage they could not chuse but doe their taske euery day, and bring their master so much metall out of their mines: but now they must be well payed, and much intreated to haue them worke.
Which if it were so, if they should enter into it and finde no victuals to passe the winter, they could not chuse but perish.
I chuse me a Priest, that I can trust with the Secrets of my Heart.
As for me, I would sooner chuse to lose my Life than to be Bawd to my own Husband.
I have not yet thoroughly betaken myself to any one particularly, but I take a Taste of all, that I be not wholly ignorant of any; and the rather, that having tasted of all I may the better chuse that I am fittest for.
After Supper, as we walk, we will finish what is behind, unless you shall rather chuse to have it omitted.
Pray tell me, if you were to go a Journey any whither, would you chuse a lively Horse that was a little wanton, or a diseased Horse, who would often stumble and throw his Rider?
The Senate shall chusetheir other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment.
But to make Rage declaim, and Grief discourse, From lovers in despair fine things to force, Must needs succeed; for who can chuse but pity A dying hero miserably witty?
Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind: Then, seek a Poet who your way does bend, And chusean Author as you chuse a friend.
I see how it is; Sir James must chuse a wife for him.
Your Sovereign, however, having directed you to chuse a favourable moment of my reign, you have now sent to felicitate me accordingly in the name of your said Sovereign.
In China, every one was allowed to think as he pleased, and to chuse his own religion.
And yet, answer me honestly; would you greatly chuse to marry a man with a thimble upon his finger?
It is the observation of a very wise man, that it is a very common exercise of wisdom in this world, of two evils to chuse the least.
If, therefore, as I think I have proved, the same parts which qualify a man for eminence in a low sphere, qualify him likewise for eminence in a higher, sure it can be no doubt in which he would chuse to exert them.
The truth is, we do not chuse to have any recourse to miracles, from the strict observance we pay to that rule of Horace, Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus.
If you do not chuse them, I believe I shall let them take their choice at Christie's, though I find by a very good painter's opinion that we much over-rated their value.
If no Will should be found anywhere, you are his natural heir, nor do I understand that it will be necessary for you to come to town to administer unless you chuse it.
I shall endevour to get you some Lucerne myself, unless you chuse to stay till next [autumn].
I was forced to draw at fifteen days sight; the Banker did not chuse to give me more and wanted to have had only eight.
I regret that I could not chuse the winter, instead of the Summer, for this excursion: I should have found many valuable persons, and should have preserved others whom I have lost as I began to know them.
If you chuse it, you may write to Milbank, who is with his Militia in the North: but send me the letter and I will forward it.
Do you chuse to draw upon me, or shall I send you the money in Bank Notes?
I did not chuse to see the leg of mutton roasted a second time with a gash in it, and yet I was afraid of disobliging my old friend.
DEAR MADAM, I have the pleasure of assuring you that my Rheumatism (or what else you chuse to call it) has again sounded a retreat & left me quite well.
I neither chuse to go to the Bastille for sending her observations upon the French government, nor to fill my letter full of romantick protestations of attachment and friendship, which I do not feel for her, and which she feels for nobody.
And because having alwayes kept my self indifferent, caring not whether I were known or no, I could not chuse but get some kinde of reputation, I thought that I ought to do my best to hinder it at least from being ill.
Oh if I could chusewho I would be, I should sooner say Miss Beverley than any princess in the world!
He'd rather chuse that I should die, Than his prediction prove a lie.
He never thought an honour done him, Because a duke was proud to own him, Would rather slip aside and chuse To talk with wits in dirty shoes; Despised the fools with stars and garters, So often seen caressing Chartres.
Now here I say nothing, but chuse to be silent; and earnestly entreat every Reader to judge for himself.
Of Graduates I dislike the learned rout, And chuse a female Doctor for the gout.
Dishes I chuse though little, yet genteel, Snails the first course, and Peepers crown the meal.
Auctions and Sales I constantly attend, But chuse my pictures by a skilful friend.
The wedding-guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot chuse but hear: And thus spake on that ancyent Man, The bright-eyed Marinere.
The wedding-guest sate on a stone, He cannot chuse but hear: And thus spake on that ancyent man, The bright-eyed Marinere.
Self-confiding wretch, I thought I could love thee as I ought, Win thee and deserve to feel All the Love thou canst reveal, And still I chuse thee, follow still.
I should have no great Opinion of a Man's Honour, who would notchuse to Die rather than comply with such Demands.
He can conjecture, it is true, two or three modes of explanation; but he does not chuseto be wise abase what is written.
Several canoes put off and followed us, but a light breeze springing up, I did not chuse to wait for them.
If those whom you maychuse to call my disciples follow my example in doing good to mankind, they will pass the confines of this world with a happy mind, while the hope of the hypocrite shall perish and delusion sink into despair.
The two last volumes will be theological and those who do not chuse to take them may let them alone.
As Carver will want pay he may have it from me, and pay when it suits him; but I expect he will take a ride up some Saturday, and then he canchuse for himself.
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