The British Essayists;: RamblerJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and son, W.J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, R. Faulder, ... [and 40 others], 1808 |
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... perpetual regard to his memory , and hourly instances of such fondness as gratitude will not easily suffer me to for- get . But when the term of this mournful felicity was ex- pired , and my mother appeared again without the ensigns of ...
... perpetual regard to his memory , and hourly instances of such fondness as gratitude will not easily suffer me to for- get . But when the term of this mournful felicity was ex- pired , and my mother appeared again without the ensigns of ...
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... perpetual deception in my prospects , like a man pointing his telescope at a remote star , which before the light reaches his eye has forsaken the place from which it was emitted . The mortification of being thus always behind the ...
... perpetual deception in my prospects , like a man pointing his telescope at a remote star , which before the light reaches his eye has forsaken the place from which it was emitted . The mortification of being thus always behind the ...
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... perpetual succession of schemes , and pass their lives in alternate elation and sorrow , for want of that calm and immoveable acquiescence in their condition , by which men of slower understand- ings are fixed for ever to a certain ...
... perpetual succession of schemes , and pass their lives in alternate elation and sorrow , for want of that calm and immoveable acquiescence in their condition , by which men of slower understand- ings are fixed for ever to a certain ...
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... perpetual struggles to unite policy and virtue , and went back to retirement as the shelter of inno- cence , persuaded that he could only hope to benefit mankind by a blameless example of private virtue . Here he spent some years in ...
... perpetual struggles to unite policy and virtue , and went back to retirement as the shelter of inno- cence , persuaded that he could only hope to benefit mankind by a blameless example of private virtue . Here he spent some years in ...
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... perpetual constraint , and to de- sert , if not to betray : and who shall determine which of two friends shall yield , where either believes himself mistaken , and both confess the importance of the 58 THE RAMBLER . The Desire of Wealth ...
... perpetual constraint , and to de- sert , if not to betray : and who shall determine which of two friends shall yield , where either believes himself mistaken , and both confess the importance of the 58 THE RAMBLER . The Desire of Wealth ...
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Página 214 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Página 34 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility...
Página 64 - Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere...
Página 192 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Página 77 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Página 36 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Página 141 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Página 62 - In these amusements the hours passed away uncounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, and he knew not towards what point to travel. He stood pensive and confused, afraid to go forward lest he should go wrong, yet conscious that the time of loitering was now past.
Página 262 - HOPE, who was the constant associate of the voyage of life. Yet all that HOPE ventured to promise, even to those whom she favoured most, was, not that they should escape, but that they should sink last; and with this promise every one was satisfied, though he laughed at the rest for seeming to believe it. HOPE, indeed, apparently mocked the credulity of her companions ; for, in proportion as their vessels grew leaky...
Página 19 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...