Never was poor Author so beset with Pamphleteers, who sometimes marched directly against me, but oftner shot at me from strong Bulwarks, or rose up suddenly in Ambush.
I am mentioned oftner in both Houses of Parliament than any other Person in Great Britain.
I shall only observe upon this Head, that if the Work I have here mentioned had been now extant, the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, in all probability, would have been oftner quoted by our learned Pedants, than the Odyssey of Homer.
I am obliged, through the Importunities of several of my Relations, to go abroad oftner than suits my Temper.
I am never tired with the Company of a good Friend: Nay, the oftner you come the more welcome you are.
And besides, I have Friends who come to visit me oftner than I would have them, or is convenient Do I then, in your Opinion, live melancholy?
You shall oftner hear about Apparitions of the Devil, and about poor people strangely Bewitched, Possessed and Obsessed, by Infernal Fiends.
Assemblies rightly constitute, as the proper & competent judge of all matters Ecclesiastical, be keeped yearly and oftner pro re nata.
Pashunce iz oftnerthe result ov numbness than it iz ov principle.
Vanity iz called a discreditabel pashun, but the good things that men do kan oftnerbe traced tew their vanity than tew their virtew.
I think the honesty ov men iz oftner the effekt ov policy than principle.
The posatiff man haz too little cunning tew be very malishus, he iz generally happy, bekauze he iz posatiff ov it, and tho he gits things wrong oftner than he duz right, people are pleazed at hiz blunders bekauze he iz so much in earnest.
Schooling, when I waz a colt, didn't lie around so loose az it duz now, and learning waz picked up oftner by running yure head aginst a stun wall, than by enny other kind ov mineralogy.
Beleaving and disbeleaving izoftner an effort ov the will than ov the understanding.
Mi private opinyun iz--that a young man oftner neglekts hiz genius for sawing wood than he does for writing poetry.
But this rarely happens, and the poor Creature oftner receives many Wounds, and numberless Darts, before he dies.
He shifts Lodgings oftner than men shift their shirts, and hath more change of Morts and Doxies, than he hath of Lodgings.
No man shifts his linnen oftner than he does his wenches.
And always, the oftner the refraction is made the same way, Or the greater the single refraction is, the more is this unequal progress.
For ye rob in companies, and if any one be taken, his just fears frequently betray himself, but oftner the rest to destruction: whereas I robbing singly, I rob securely.
Not only by her, but by others, this experiment I found, that theoftner I treated them, the more eagerly and earnestly they desired it.
Sir, I will serue him: For I do finde your Hangman is a more penitent Trade then your Bawd: he dothoftner aske forgiuenesse Pro.
They take a choffer whiles of brass oftner lame,[192] filled wt charcoall, which they sett beneath the thing, on which they dry out their cloaths wery neitly.
Pray let's meet oftner Gentlemen, I would not lose ye.
You give liberally; we hope Sir, er't be long, To be oftner acquainted with your bounty, And so we leave you.
For seldome should we be alone, our Neighbours oftnerfrequenting our House than we desired; out of whom to be sure we could pick no Profit.
Their usual manner of swearing in protestations, is by their Mother, or by their Children, or by their two Eyes, oftner than by their Gods.
Forgetting isoftner an Aggravation than an Excuse.
The Mean is so nice, that the hitting upon it is oftner the Effect of Chance than of Skill.
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