The British Essayists;: RamblerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with learned lectures on the vanity of life . But though the speculatist may see and shew the folly of terrestrial ...
... shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with learned lectures on the vanity of life . But though the speculatist may see and shew the folly of terrestrial ...
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... shew them , that though they may refuse to grow wise , they must in- evitably grow old ; and that the proper solaces of age are not musick and compliments , but wisdom and de- votion ; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world ...
... shew them , that though they may refuse to grow wise , they must in- evitably grow old ; and that the proper solaces of age are not musick and compliments , but wisdom and de- votion ; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world ...
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... shew , that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it , a thou- sand instances will every day prove , that the meanest may practise it with success . Riches cannot be within the reach of great num- bers , because to be rich is to ...
... shew , that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it , a thou- sand instances will every day prove , that the meanest may practise it with success . Riches cannot be within the reach of great num- bers , because to be rich is to ...
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... shew that she imposes upon the care- less eye , by a quick succession of shadows , which will shrink to nothing in the gripe ; that she disguises life in extrinsick ornaments , which serve only for show , and are laid aside in the hours ...
... shew that she imposes upon the care- less eye , by a quick succession of shadows , which will shrink to nothing in the gripe ; that she disguises life in extrinsick ornaments , which serve only for show , and are laid aside in the hours ...
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... shew the miseries that attend the last stage of man , impre- cates upon those who are so foolish as to wish for long life , the calamity of continuing to grow old from cen- tury to century . He thought that no adventitious or foreign ...
... shew the miseries that attend the last stage of man , impre- cates upon those who are so foolish as to wish for long life , the calamity of continuing to grow old from cen- tury to century . He thought that no adventitious or foreign ...
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Էջ 214 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Էջ 34 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility...
Էջ 64 - Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere...
Էջ 192 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Էջ 77 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Էջ 36 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Էջ 141 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Էջ 62 - In these amusements the hours passed away uncounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel. He stood pensive and confused, afraid to go forward lest he should go wrong, yet conscious that the time of loitering was now past.
Էջ 262 - HOPE, who was the constant associate of the voyage of life. Yet all that HOPE ventured to promise, even to those whom she favoured most, was, not that they should escape, but that they should sink last; and with this promise every one was satisfied, though he laughed at the rest for seeming to believe it. HOPE, indeed, apparently mocked the credulity of her companions ; for, in proportion as their vessels grew leaky...
Էջ 19 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...