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... whole , his version is certainly inferior , ( as indeed what modern has , in Latin poetry , equalled Buchanan ? ) ; yet , there are a few of his Psalms , which , on compari- son , will , I think , be found to excel the corresponding ...
... whole , his version is certainly inferior , ( as indeed what modern has , in Latin poetry , equalled Buchanan ? ) ; yet , there are a few of his Psalms , which , on compari- son , will , I think , be found to excel the corresponding ...
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... whole course of his life , a strong predilection . It is not necessary here to enter deeply into the question , in what degree of importance such researches truly stand in the scale of human pursuits . Allowing them to be conver- sant ...
... whole course of his life , a strong predilection . It is not necessary here to enter deeply into the question , in what degree of importance such researches truly stand in the scale of human pursuits . Allowing them to be conver- sant ...
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... whole lives , if they can dis- cover some hidden truths , which may contribute to the instruction of po sterity . It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always , " with the generality of mankind , have the preference ...
... whole lives , if they can dis- cover some hidden truths , which may contribute to the instruction of po sterity . It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always , " with the generality of mankind , have the preference ...
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... whole , to the cause of virtue . The acutest of the sceptical writers , availing themselves of Mr Locke's doctrine of the origin of ideas , and the consequences he has thence drawn respecting morals , have done much more harm , by ...
... whole , to the cause of virtue . The acutest of the sceptical writers , availing themselves of Mr Locke's doctrine of the origin of ideas , and the consequences he has thence drawn respecting morals , have done much more harm , by ...
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... « habit of justice he had acquired , overshadowed these fesser failings , and gave a becoming lustre to the whole course of his judgments . " Y I shall mention a few of the most distinguished Advocates 32 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE.
... « habit of justice he had acquired , overshadowed these fesser failings , and gave a becoming lustre to the whole course of his judgments . " Y I shall mention a few of the most distinguished Advocates 32 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE.
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Página 100 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Página 100 - Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Página 305 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all, — O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Página 97 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me.
Página 76 - But now the question follows, what punishment can human laws inflict on one who has withdrawn himself from their reach? They can only act upon what he has left behind him, his reputation and fortune: on the former, by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body; on...
Página 306 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?
Página 295 - There is a flutter or hurry of thought which attends the first perusal of any piece, and which confounds the genuine sentiment of beauty. The relation of the parts is not discerned : The true characters of style are little distinguished. The several perfections and defects seem wrapped up in a species of confusion, and present themselves indistinctly to the imagination.
Página 180 - ... cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus...
Página 327 - Work, on the one hand, to exhibit, he does not say, a correct map, but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and, aided by the lights which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible, to their source : and, on the other hand, from the science of human nature, to ascertain with greater precision, the radical principles of that art, whose object it is, by the use of language, to operate on...
Página 264 - No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada, and this is not merely as I am a Colonist but as I am a Briton. I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are nevertheless broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.