Essays, Moral and Literary, Volum 2R. Marchbank, 1783 |
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Pàgina 1
... whole tenour of their ftudies is one continued toil , and that the pleasure they derive from them is by no means a recompence for exhaufted fpirits and habitual me- lancholy . With a view to relieve ftudents of this defcription , who ...
... whole tenour of their ftudies is one continued toil , and that the pleasure they derive from them is by no means a recompence for exhaufted fpirits and habitual me- lancholy . With a view to relieve ftudents of this defcription , who ...
Pàgina 12
... whole of it in all its diftant relations , dependencies , modifications , origin , and confequences . But if we allow an extraordinary power of attention to be genius , which perhaps cannot be al- lowed , the queftion recurs , by what ...
... whole of it in all its diftant relations , dependencies , modifications , origin , and confequences . But if we allow an extraordinary power of attention to be genius , which perhaps cannot be al- lowed , the queftion recurs , by what ...
Pàgina 19
... whole , to rejoice or lament that she was endowed with fuch extreme fen- fibility . But to be fure , so it was , her poor heart was fo full of love , that every one who approached might have a fhare unafked . Her voice was faint and ...
... whole , to rejoice or lament that she was endowed with fuch extreme fen- fibility . But to be fure , so it was , her poor heart was fo full of love , that every one who approached might have a fhare unafked . Her voice was faint and ...
Pàgina 23
... whole community throughout all its departments . Let us fuppofe a married couple in the middle ranks of life ( and I felect my inftances from the middle ranks because they are the moft numerous and important ) . Let us fuppofe them juft ...
... whole community throughout all its departments . Let us fuppofe a married couple in the middle ranks of life ( and I felect my inftances from the middle ranks because they are the moft numerous and important ) . Let us fuppofe them juft ...
Pàgina 26
... whole rifing generation must be endangered , when diffipation is become univerfal among parents and the heads of families . Selfish arguments may fucceed when others fail ; and I therefore wish I could convince the generality of a ...
... whole rifing generation must be endangered , when diffipation is become univerfal among parents and the heads of families . Selfish arguments may fucceed when others fail ; and I therefore wish I could convince the generality of a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 156 - ... laws imported from the continent, 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...
Pàgina 271 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Pàgina 306 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Pàgina 97 - If you are struck by the appearance of any promised pleasure, guard yourself against being hurried away by it; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time : that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and applaud yourself if you abstain. And even though it should appear to you a seasonable...
Pàgina 180 - It fubdues the haughty foul elevated with riches and inebriated with excefs, and turns the attention to the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes...
Pàgina 281 - ... 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...
Pàgina 288 - ... there. He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture...
Pàgina 282 - 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 328 - Modish, animated with the conscious merit of the largest or smallest buckles in the room, according to the temporary ton, would have laughed Pompey the Great out of countenance. Oh, Cicero, had you lived in...
Pàgina 330 - Those instructions are contained in my book of Offices ; a book which has ever been cited by the world as a proof to what a height the morality of the heathens was advanced without the light of revelation. I own I feel a conscious pride in it; not on account of the ability which it may display, but for the principles it teaches, and the good, I flatter myself, it has diffused. You did not indeed intend your instructions for the world ; but as you gave them to a son you loved, it may...