A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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... rich fancy presents to them in a moment the view of all contingencies , and all that occurs to formal and elaborate men after all their efforts . They are supposed to view , and survey , and judge , and execute , while the others are ...
... rich fancy presents to them in a moment the view of all contingencies , and all that occurs to formal and elaborate men after all their efforts . They are supposed to view , and survey , and judge , and execute , while the others are ...
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... rich portion , nor yet lived so quietly with me as I hoped from her . course . * Meaning Ben Jonson , * * This is a line from the beautiful Ode of Horace ad- dressed to Mæcenas , in which he vows not to survive his friend and patron ...
... rich portion , nor yet lived so quietly with me as I hoped from her . course . * Meaning Ben Jonson , * * This is a line from the beautiful Ode of Horace ad- dressed to Mæcenas , in which he vows not to survive his friend and patron ...
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... rich , Nor have those men without their share too liv'd , Who both in life and death the world deceiv'd . THIS seems a strange sentence , thus literally translated , and looks as if it were in vindication of the men of business ( for ...
... rich , Nor have those men without their share too liv'd , Who both in life and death the world deceiv'd . THIS seems a strange sentence , thus literally translated , and looks as if it were in vindication of the men of business ( for ...
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... rich mind to be able to maintain itself without labour , and sub- sist without the advantages of study , yet there is no man that has such a portion of sense but will understand the use of his time better than to put IMPROVEMENT OF TIME ...
... rich mind to be able to maintain itself without labour , and sub- sist without the advantages of study , yet there is no man that has such a portion of sense but will understand the use of his time better than to put IMPROVEMENT OF TIME ...
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... rich and landed men , they fell into the praise of the English laws , and cried up Magna Charta , as our ancestors had done with much better grace . But laws serve to keep men in order , when they are first well agreed and instituted ...
... rich and landed men , they fell into the praise of the English laws , and cried up Magna Charta , as our ancestors had done with much better grace . But laws serve to keep men in order , when they are first well agreed and instituted ...
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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.