The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance amusements Anthea appearance beauty calamity censure character Cleobulus common consider contempt conversation danger deavouring delight desire discover easily ELPHINSTON eminent endeavour envy Epictetus equally error evils excellence eyes faults favour fear folly force fortune frequently friends gain genius give happen happiness heart hinder honour hope hour human Ianthe imagination incited indulge innu Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind knowledge labour Lacedemon lady learning Leniter less lest link-boy lives mankind marriage means Melanthia ment mind miscarriages misery moral nature nerally never objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passions pastoral Penthesilea perhaps Periander pleasing pleasure Plutus portunity praise precepts Prudentius publick quired racter RAMBLER reason reflection regard reproach reputation rest riety SATIETY SATURDAY seldom sentiments shew sometimes soon sophism suffer thing thou thought tion told TUESDAY vanity vice Virgil virtue write
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Página 43 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 17 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Página 20 - ... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue.
Página 19 - But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly, should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects.
Página 31 - American plantations, not to seek for gold, or enrich myself with the traffic of those parts, which is the end of most men that travel thither; but to forsake this world for ever, with all the vanities and vexations of it, and to bury myself there in some obscure retreat, but not without the consolation of letters and philosophy.
Página xiv - Almighty God, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace .all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation of myself and others : grant this, O Lord, for the sake of thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen...
Página 227 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Página xix - He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day, will often bring to his task an attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren...
Página 205 - What will the reader imagine to be the subject on which speakers like these exercise their eloquence ? Will he not be somewhat disappointed, when he finds them met together to condemn the corruptions of the church of Rome ? Surely, at the same time that a shepherd learns theology, he may gain some acquaintance with his native language.
Página 71 - When the discovery of secrets is under consideration, there is always a distinction carefully to be made between our own and those of another; those of which we are fully masters as they affect only our own interest, and those which are reposited with us in trust, and involve the happiness or convenience of such as we have no right to expose to hazard. To tell our own secrets...