The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pàgina 13
... seem to think of the highest importance ; and a matter , per- haps the only one , of general and national concern : associations having been formed all over the king- dom to prevent its destructive progress ; I mean the offence of ...
... seem to think of the highest importance ; and a matter , per- haps the only one , of general and national concern : associations having been formed all over the king- dom to prevent its destructive progress ; I mean the offence of ...
Pàgina 21
... seems to possess an influence in humanizing the feelings , and melio- rating the native disposition . Music , painting , and poetry , teach the mind to select the agreeable parts of those objects which surround us , and by habi- tuating ...
... seems to possess an influence in humanizing the feelings , and melio- rating the native disposition . Music , painting , and poetry , teach the mind to select the agreeable parts of those objects which surround us , and by habi- tuating ...
Pàgina 22
... seems to ac- quire an excessive irritability . The ill treatment of children has not only made them wretched at the time , but wretched for life ; tearing the fine contex- ture of their nerves , and roughening , by example , and by some ...
... seems to ac- quire an excessive irritability . The ill treatment of children has not only made them wretched at the time , but wretched for life ; tearing the fine contex- ture of their nerves , and roughening , by example , and by some ...
Pàgina 23
... seems to me to be no method more effec- tual of softening the ferocity , and improving the minds , of the lower classes of a great capital , than the frequent exhibition of tragical pieces , on which the distress is carried to the ...
... seems to me to be no method more effec- tual of softening the ferocity , and improving the minds , of the lower classes of a great capital , than the frequent exhibition of tragical pieces , on which the distress is carried to the ...
Pàgina 26
... seems , indeed , to be a part of the contemptible vanity which characterizes the age , to laugh at public spec- tacles when others are serious , and to be serious when others laugh . " Who , indeed , " says the fine- bred lady , " would ...
... seems , indeed , to be a part of the contemptible vanity which characterizes the age , to laugh at public spec- tacles when others are serious , and to be serious when others laugh . " Who , indeed , " says the fine- bred lady , " would ...
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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.