Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects ...D. Brown, 1722 - 428 páginas |
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Advantage Affiftance againſt almoſt becauſe Befides beft beſt better Buſineſs Cafe Caufe Cauſe Church confefs Confequence confiderable Conftitution Converfation Cuftom deferves Defign defire Diftinction diſcover Diſtance Eftate faid fame Fancy farther feems felf felves ferve fervile fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes fomewhat Friend ftand ftrike fuch fufficient fuppofe fure give greateſt Greatneſs Happineſs hath himſelf Honour Humour impoffible Induſtry Inftance Intereft juft Juftice laft lefs looks Matter Meaſure ment Mind Miſtake moft moſt Mufick muft muſt Nature Neceffity nefs Neighbours never fo obferve obliged Occafion on't otherwife Paffion Perfon Philal Philot pleaſe Pleaſure poffible Pray prefent Pride Prieft Publick Purpoſe Quality racter raiſed Reaſon Refpect Religion Satisfaction ſeem Senfe Senſe Servant ſhall Spirits thefe themſelves ther theſe Things thofe thoſe tion Tis true ufually Underſtanding unleſs uſe wiſh worfe World
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Página 24 - Tis probable the roaring of lions, the warbling of cats and screech-owls, together with a mixture of the howling of dogs, judiciously imitated and compounded, might go a great way in this invention. Whether such anti-music as this might not be of service in a camp, I shall leave to the military men to consider.
Página 191 - ... upon more. Did you ever confider, that I am for life almoft twice as rich as you, and pay no rent, and drink French wine twice as cheap as you do port, and have neither coach, chair, nor mother ? As to the world, I think you ought to fay to it with St Paul, If we have fawn unto...
Página 181 - Always have a book within your reach, which you may catch up at your odd minutes. Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you can give fifteen minutes a day, it will be felt at the end of the year. Thoughts take up no room. When they are right they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel or labor with without any trouble or incumbrance.
Página 92 - Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burthen to ourselves. They help us to forget the crossness of men and things ; compose our cares and our passions ; and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride...
Página 70 - ... grow too strong for his interest ; he never crosses a prevailing mistake, nor opposes any mischief that has numbers and prescription on its side. His point is to steal upon the blind side, and apply to the affections ; to flatter the vanity and play upon the weakness of those in power or interest, and to make his fortune out of the folly of his neighbours.
Página 74 - ... branched out into a great many fine Subdivisions, and spread upon all the Surface of the Body, They are the Channels in which the Animal Spirits move: So that as soon as .any foreign Object presses upon the Sense, those Spirits which are posted upon the Out-guards, immediately take the Alarm, and scower off to the Brain, which is the HeadQuarters, or Office of Intelligence, and there they make their Report of what has happen'd.
Página 93 - ... crossness of men and things ; compose our cares and our passions ; and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. However, to be constantly in the wheel has neither pleasure nor improvement in it. A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. "Tis thought and...
Página 123 - Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too. I would not despair, unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.
Página 93 - But Books well managed afford Direction and Discovery. They strengthen the Organ, and enlarge the Prospect, and give a more universal Insight into Things, than can be learned from unlettered Observation. He who depends only upon his own Experience, has but a few Materials to work upon. He is confined to narrow Limits both of Place and Time : And is not fit to draw a large Model, and to pronounce upon Business which is complicated and unusual.
Página 28 - Proil-faon ; which is nothing thing but a forced and politick Statelinefs for the promoting of Knowledge in Others. The young Fry, whether you know it or not, muft be held at a Diftance, and kept under the Difcipline of Contempt. If you give them any tolerable Quarter, you indulge them in their Idlenefs ; and ruin them to all Intents and Purpofes. For who would be at the Trouble of Learning, when he finds his Ignorance is careffed ; and that he is eafie and acceptable enough in the Company of the...