The British Essayists: Knox's essaysJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Pągina 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 ...
Pągina 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 ...
Pągina 22
... seems to acquire an excessive irritability . The ill treatment of children has not only made them wretched at the time , but wretched for life ; tearing the fine contexture of their nerves , and roughening , by example , and by some ...
... seems to acquire an excessive irritability . The ill treatment of children has not only made them wretched at the time , but wretched for life ; tearing the fine contexture of their nerves , and roughening , by example , and by some ...
Pągina 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 highest ...
... 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 highest ...
Pągina 26
... seems , indeed , to be a part of the contemptible vanity which characterizes the age , to laugh at public spectacles when others are serious , and to be serious when others laugh . " Who indeed , " says the fine bred lady , " would be ...
... seems , indeed , to be a part of the contemptible vanity which characterizes the age , to laugh at public spectacles when others are serious , and to be serious when others laugh . " Who indeed , " says the fine bred lady , " would be ...
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Passatges populars
Pągina 172 - Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for. whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God. Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Pągina 171 - ... 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 of confinement...
Pągina 164 - ... 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.
Pągina 194 - 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!
Pągina 11 - Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pągina 152 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Pągina 171 - 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...
Pągina 164 - 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.
Pągina 255 - 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...
Pągina 17 - ... 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...