The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina vii
... Nature ........ 101 .... 197 161. On the peculiar baseness of Vice in Nobility 200 162. On Affectation of Extreme Delicacy and Sen- sibility ........... 163. On true Patience , as distinguished from Insen- sibility 204 ............. 209 ...
... Nature ........ 101 .... 197 161. On the peculiar baseness of Vice in Nobility 200 162. On Affectation of Extreme Delicacy and Sen- sibility ........... 163. On true Patience , as distinguished from Insen- sibility 204 ............. 209 ...
Pàgina 3
... nature usually bestows her gifts with a prudent liberality even to her favourites . One might on this occasion apply Martial's , Hoc Ciceronis habes . This cha- racter of a bad poet you have in common with the great Cicero . To oppose ...
... nature usually bestows her gifts with a prudent liberality even to her favourites . One might on this occasion apply Martial's , Hoc Ciceronis habes . This cha- racter of a bad poet you have in common with the great Cicero . To oppose ...
Pàgina 12
... nature ; they originated in slavery , and they lead to tyranny . It is remarked by Burn , and the great commentator on our legal system , that , in one statute only for the preservation of Game , there are not less than six blunders in ...
... nature ; they originated in slavery , and they lead to tyranny . It is remarked by Burn , and the great commentator on our legal system , that , in one statute only for the preservation of Game , there are not less than six blunders in ...
Pàgina 13
... nature , that I shall not detain the reader with many observations thereupon . And yet it is an offence which the sportsmen of England seem to think of the highest importance ; and a matter , per- haps the only one , of general and ...
... nature , that I shall not detain the reader with many observations thereupon . And yet it is an offence which the sportsmen of England seem to think of the highest importance ; and a matter , per- haps the only one , of general and ...
Pàgina 14
... nature have constituted free as the seas and the wind . They do not consider the pursuit of Game in the liberal light of a gentleman- like diversion , but view the hare and the partridge as provender for the table at once genteel and ...
... nature have constituted free as the seas and the wind . They do not consider the pursuit of Game in the liberal light of a gentleman- like diversion , but view the hare and the partridge as provender for the table at once genteel and ...
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
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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.