The British Essayists, Volumen21Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... rich , generally endangers his fortune in wild adven- tures , and uncertain projects ; and he that hastens too VOL . XXI . D speedily to reputation , often raises his character by artifices N ° 111 . 2 $ THE RAMBLER .
... rich , generally endangers his fortune in wild adven- tures , and uncertain projects ; and he that hastens too VOL . XXI . D speedily to reputation , often raises his character by artifices N ° 111 . 2 $ THE RAMBLER .
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... rich , had all the good qualities which naturally arise from a close and unwearied attention to the main chance ; his desire to gain wealth was so well tempered by the vanity of shewing it , that , without any other principle of action ...
... rich , had all the good qualities which naturally arise from a close and unwearied attention to the main chance ; his desire to gain wealth was so well tempered by the vanity of shewing it , that , without any other principle of action ...
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... riches ; the rest , which I was hindered from en- " joying by the fear of raising envy , or tempting " " 66 66 66 rapacity , I have piled in towers , I have buried in caverns , I have hidden in secret repositories , which " this scroll ...
... riches ; the rest , which I was hindered from en- " joying by the fear of raising envy , or tempting " " 66 66 66 rapacity , I have piled in towers , I have buried in caverns , I have hidden in secret repositories , which " this scroll ...
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... rich embroidery , and covered his horses with golden caparisons . He showered down silver on the populace , and suffered their acclamations to swell him with insolence . The nobles saw him with anger , the wise men of the state combined ...
... rich embroidery , and covered his horses with golden caparisons . He showered down silver on the populace , and suffered their acclamations to swell him with insolence . The nobles saw him with anger , the wise men of the state combined ...
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... riches in sordid ostentation ; thou wast born to be wealthy , but never canst be great . He then contracted his desires to more private and domestick pleasures . He built palaces , he laid out gardens , he changed the face of the land ...
... riches in sordid ostentation ; thou wast born to be wealthy , but never canst be great . He then contracted his desires to more private and domestick pleasures . He built palaces , he laid out gardens , he changed the face of the land ...
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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.