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... publick , without wishing that fuch ceremonial modes of entrance had been anciently established , as might have freed them from thofe dangers which the defire of pleafing is certain to produce , and precluded the vain expedients of ...
... publick , without wishing that fuch ceremonial modes of entrance had been anciently established , as might have freed them from thofe dangers which the defire of pleafing is certain to produce , and precluded the vain expedients of ...
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... publick life , a fhort experience would have con- vinced him , that privation is easier than acquifition , and that it would require little continuance to free himself from the in- trufion of the world . There is pride enough in the ...
... publick life , a fhort experience would have con- vinced him , that privation is easier than acquifition , and that it would require little continuance to free himself from the in- trufion of the world . There is pride enough in the ...
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... publick more in a great ftation than the man that fills it , will in time imagine it an a & t of virtue to fupplant him ; and , as oppofition readily kindles into hatred , his eagerness to do that good to which he is not called will ...
... publick more in a great ftation than the man that fills it , will in time imagine it an a & t of virtue to fupplant him ; and , as oppofition readily kindles into hatred , his eagerness to do that good to which he is not called will ...
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... publick coffee- house , that he looked upon the whole ge- neration of woollen - drapers to be fuch defpicable wretches that no gentleman ought to pay them . It has been obferved that phyficians and lawyers are no friends to religion ...
... publick coffee- house , that he looked upon the whole ge- neration of woollen - drapers to be fuch defpicable wretches that no gentleman ought to pay them . It has been obferved that phyficians and lawyers are no friends to religion ...
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... publick . If , as it has fometimes hap- pened in general combinations against merit , he cannot perfuade the world to buy his works , he may prefent them to his friends ; and if his friends are seized with the epidemical infatuation ...
... publick . If , as it has fometimes hap- pened in general combinations against merit , he cannot perfuade the world to buy his works , he may prefent them to his friends ; and if his friends are seized with the epidemical infatuation ...
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Página 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Página 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Página 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Página 450 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Página 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Página 20 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 318 - I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable!
Página 355 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Página 463 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Página 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.