The British Essayists, Volumen21Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... object to another . The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure , and a state of settled uniformity , pro- ceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers . If we except those gigantic and stupendous ...
... object to another . The disposition to defer every important design to a time of leisure , and a state of settled uniformity , pro- ceeds generally from a false estimate of the human powers . If we except those gigantic and stupendous ...
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... object of inquiry ; but , perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleas- ing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and sur- feited with intemperance of application ...
... object of inquiry ; but , perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleas- ing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and sur- feited with intemperance of application ...
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... object of your future joy . To the RAMBLER . ELPHINSTON . SIR , THOUGH you seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life , and have employed much of your speculation on mournful subjects , you have not yet ...
... object of your future joy . To the RAMBLER . ELPHINSTON . SIR , THOUGH you seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life , and have employed much of your speculation on mournful subjects , you have not yet ...
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... objects are fleeting , variable , and evanescent . We are not able to judge of the degree of conviction which operated at any particular time upon our own thoughts , but as it is recorded by some certain and definite effect . He that ...
... objects are fleeting , variable , and evanescent . We are not able to judge of the degree of conviction which operated at any particular time upon our own thoughts , but as it is recorded by some certain and definite effect . He that ...
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... objects of attention and topicks of conversation , are incessantly busy in procuring wives and husbands .. They fill the ears of every single man and woman with some convenient match , and when they are informed . of your age and ...
... objects of attention and topicks of conversation , are incessantly busy in procuring wives and husbands .. They fill the ears of every single man and woman with some convenient match , and when they are informed . of your age and ...
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Página 156 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Página 178 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man : A Poet, blest beyond the Poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's...
Página 252 - CRITICISM, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, and, since the revival of polite literature, the favourite study of European scholars, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
Página 177 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Página 157 - Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all...
Página 140 - It is too common for those who have been bred to «cholastick professions, and passed much of their time in academies where nothing but learning confers honours, to disregard every other qualification, and to imagine that they shall find mankind ready to pay homage to their knowledge, and to crowd about them for instruction. They therefore step out from their cells into the open world, with all the confidence of authority and, dignity of importance; they look round about them, at...
Página 75 - ... attempted. Whatever is done skilfully appears to be done with ease; and art, when it is once matured to habit, vanishes from observation. We are therefore more powerfully excited to emulation, by those who have attained the highest degree of excellence, and whom we can therefore with least reason hope to equal.