The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 3
... common with the great Cicero . To oppose opinions universally received , is to incur the imputation of vanity , ignorance , and want of taste . But as every individual has a right to private judg- ment , and may offer his sentiments to ...
... common with the great Cicero . To oppose opinions universally received , is to incur the imputation of vanity , ignorance , and want of taste . But as every individual has a right to private judg- ment , and may offer his sentiments to ...
Pàgina 10
... common people , which render it decent and prudent not to open the theatres , and enliven the horrid dulness of the Seventh Day by public diversions . Even mighty good sort of peo- ple , as they are usually called , hesitate not to con ...
... common people , which render it decent and prudent not to open the theatres , and enliven the horrid dulness of the Seventh Day by public diversions . Even mighty good sort of peo- ple , as they are usually called , hesitate not to con ...
Pàgina 11
... common life , and in a wicked and unprincipled age , becomes , in some degree , virtuous . We will not , therefore , expose this unsound virtue to severe cen- sure , except when it appears in religion , where , whatever appearances are ...
... common life , and in a wicked and unprincipled age , becomes , in some degree , virtuous . We will not , therefore , expose this unsound virtue to severe cen- sure , except when it appears in religion , where , whatever appearances are ...
Pàgina 21
... common in the present age , than they were in the last century . Ladies were then secluded from the world till marriage , and as they were very superficially educated in every thing but potting and preserving , it is no wonder if they ...
... common in the present age , than they were in the last century . Ladies were then secluded from the world till marriage , and as they were very superficially educated in every thing but potting and preserving , it is no wonder if they ...
Pàgina 24
... Common and illiterate minds can- not follow the high flights of sublime poetry , nor understand the beauties of blank verse ; but the language of Lillo in this humble tale , is level to the lowest degree of intellect . It must , indeed ...
... Common and illiterate minds can- not follow the high flights of sublime poetry , nor understand the beauties of blank verse ; but the language of Lillo in this humble tale , is level to the lowest degree of intellect . It must , indeed ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 126 - ... against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition, or to my fortune.
Pàgina 150 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, 0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Pàgina 122 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Pàgina 148 - God, and wandering every man after the counsel of his own heart, and in the sight of his own eyes...
Pàgina 131 - Maria, though not tall, was nevertheless of the first order of fine forms; affliction had touched her looks with something that was scarce earthly, — still she was feminine; and so much was there about her of all that the heart wishes, or the eye looks for in woman...
Pàgina 126 - No ! the charges against me are all of one kind : that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far, — further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Pàgina 207 - But, even in these, topics incidentally arise, which require elevated expression, and an inverted construction. Not to raise the style on these occasions, is to write unnaturally ; for nature teaches us to express animated emotions of every kind in animated language. The dependent writes unnaturally to a superior, in the style of familiarity. The suppliant writes unnaturally, if he rejects the figures dictated by distress. Conversation admits of every style but the poetic; and what are letters but...
Pàgina 131 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door — then cast it down — shook hjs head — and went on with his work of affliction.
Pàgina 13 - ... whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue and kill it upon his own estate. But the rigour of these new constitutions vested the sole property of all the game in England in the king alone; and no man was entitled to disturb any fowl of the air, or any beast of the field, of such kinds as were specially reserved for the royal amusement of the...
Pàgina 126 - No! the charges against me are all of one kind, that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far; further than a cautious policy would warrant; and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. — In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress — I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.