Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: In Three Volumes, Volumen1

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John Darby in Bartholomew-close, 1732
 

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Página 393 - Even the rude rocks, the mossy caverns, the irregular unwrought grottos and broken falls of waters, with all the horrid graces of the wilderness itself, as representing Nature more, will be the more engaging, and appear with a magnificence beyond the formal mockery of princely gardens.
Página 405 - That the beautiful, the fair, the comely, were never in the matter, but in the art and design; never in body itself, but in the form or forming power.
Página 369 - Eternity. In vain we try to fathom the abyss of space, the seat of thy extensive being; of which no place is empty, no void which is not full.
Página 287 - All things in this world are united. For as the branch is united with the tree, so is the tree as immediately with the earth, air and water which feed it. As much as the fertile mould is fitted to the tree, as much as the strong and upright trunk of the oak or elm is fitted to the twining branches of the vine or ivy, so much are the very leaves, the seeds and fruits of these trees fitted to the various animals: these again to one another and to the elements where they live and to which they are as...
Página 53 - Tis certain that if you give to this creature a reflecting faculty, it will at the same instant approve of gratitude, kindness, and pity ; be taken with any...
Página 109 - What tyrant is there, what robber, or open violater of the laws of society, who has not a companion, or some particular set, either of his own kindred, or such as he calls friends ; with whom he gladly shares his goods ; in whose welfare he delights; and whose joy and satisfaction he makes his own?
Página 238 - Or whether, when you first proved this generous pleasure, you did not feel it less than at this present, after so long experience? Believe me, Philocles, this pleasure is more debauching than any other. Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or bounty practised but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act.
Página 133 - Now, if amongst the superior and easy sort, there be not something of fit and proper employment raised in the room of what is wanting in common labour and toil ; if instead of an application to any sort of work, such as has a good and honest end in society (as letters, sciences, arts, husbandry...
Página 35 - ... love, or to torment captives of war in sport, or to offer human sacrifice, or to torment, macerate, or mangle themselves in a religious zeal before their God, or to commit any sort of barbarity or brutality as amiable or becoming; be it custom which gives applause, or religion which gives a sanction; this is not, nor ever can be, virtue...
Página 18 - So that the creatures are both of them to be considered as parts of another system, which is that of a particular race or species of living creatures, who have...

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