The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Հատորներ 14-26 |
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... mankind , rather subjects for their admi- ration than example . However , there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations , than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men . Innocent ...
... mankind , rather subjects for their admi- ration than example . However , there are no ideas strike more forcibly upon our imaginations , than those which are raised from reflections upon the exits of great and excellent men . Innocent ...
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... mankind whose portion it is to live in servitude , that those whom they de- pend upon will not allow them to be even as happy as their condition will admit of . There are , as these unhappy correspondents inform me , masters who are ...
... mankind whose portion it is to live in servitude , that those whom they de- pend upon will not allow them to be even as happy as their condition will admit of . There are , as these unhappy correspondents inform me , masters who are ...
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... mankind is inchanted , that nothing but acute pains can give him disturbance , and against those too he will tell his intimate friends he has a secret which gives him present ease . Uranius is so tho- roughly persuaded of another life ...
... mankind is inchanted , that nothing but acute pains can give him disturbance , and against those too he will tell his intimate friends he has a secret which gives him present ease . Uranius is so tho- roughly persuaded of another life ...
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... mankind as if we were all deaf ; they do not express but declare themselves . Many of these are guilty of this out- rage out of vanity , because they think all they say is well ; or that they have their own persons in such veneration ...
... mankind as if we were all deaf ; they do not express but declare themselves . Many of these are guilty of this out- rage out of vanity , because they think all they say is well ; or that they have their own persons in such veneration ...
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... mankind , I mean the ladies , to take up a whole paper upon grievances which concern the men only ; but shall humbly propose , that we change fools for an expe- riment only . A certain set of ladies complain they are frequently ...
... mankind , I mean the ladies , to take up a whole paper upon grievances which concern the men only ; but shall humbly propose , that we change fools for an expe- riment only . A certain set of ladies complain they are frequently ...
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Էջ 145 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Էջ 221 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Էջ 130 - ... that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Էջ 221 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Էջ 128 - As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon further examination perceived there were innumerable trap-doors that lay concealed in the bridge, which the passengers no sooner trod upon but they fell through them into the tide and immediately disappeared. These hidden pit-falls were set very thick at the entrance of the bridge, so that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud hut many of...
Էջ 222 - ... if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering : if his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep : if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate; then let mine arm fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
Էջ 129 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Էջ 130 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. "At length," said I, "show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.
Էջ 134 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those that have formed themselves by rules and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
Էջ 158 - ... as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of a foreign coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit any French phrases from becoming current in this kingdom when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable.