A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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... never allowed ourselves to add a new idea , though we have oc- casionally taken the liberty to correct or alter expressions which were either obsolete , vulgar , or incorrect . We refer the reader to the Table of Contents for the ...
... never allowed ourselves to add a new idea , though we have oc- casionally taken the liberty to correct or alter expressions which were either obsolete , vulgar , or incorrect . We refer the reader to the Table of Contents for the ...
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... never disturbed , much less confounded . Where this blessed temper is the effect of deli- beration , and the observation of the folly and mad- ness of sudden passion , it constitutes the greatest perfection of wisdom . But it has in ...
... never disturbed , much less confounded . Where this blessed temper is the effect of deli- beration , and the observation of the folly and mad- ness of sudden passion , it constitutes the greatest perfection of wisdom . But it has in ...
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... never owns to be within , when asked for . All other passions do not only betray and discover , but likewise confess themselves : the choleric man con- fesses he is angry , and the proud man confesses he is ambitious ; the covetous man ...
... never owns to be within , when asked for . All other passions do not only betray and discover , but likewise confess themselves : the choleric man con- fesses he is angry , and the proud man confesses he is ambitious ; the covetous man ...
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... never to be afflicted but on the behalf of justice , when per- sons less meritorious are preferred . And it is so far true , that she seldom assaults unfortunate vir- tue , and is as seldom troubled for any success , however unworthy ...
... never to be afflicted but on the behalf of justice , when per- sons less meritorious are preferred . And it is so far true , that she seldom assaults unfortunate vir- tue , and is as seldom troubled for any success , however unworthy ...
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... never was nor never shall be put to the trial ; I can therefore only make my pro- testation , If ever I more riches did desire Than cleanliness and quiet do require ; If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat , With any wish so mean as to be ...
... never was nor never shall be put to the trial ; I can therefore only make my pro- testation , If ever I more riches did desire Than cleanliness and quiet do require ; If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat , With any wish so mean as to be ...
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Стр. 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Стр. 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Стр. 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Стр. 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Стр. 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Стр. 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Стр. 16 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Стр. 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Стр. 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Стр. 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.