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... PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING IN EUROPE . CHAP . I. INTRODUCTION ....... 387 ..... II . The Causes which contribute to the decline of Learn- ing .... 389 III . A View of the Obscure Ages .... 397 IV . A Parallel between the Rise and ...
... PRESENT STATE OF POLITE LEARNING IN EUROPE . CHAP . I. INTRODUCTION ....... 387 ..... II . The Causes which contribute to the decline of Learn- ing .... 389 III . A View of the Obscure Ages .... 397 IV . A Parallel between the Rise and ...
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... present wretchedness and pusillanimity of its inhabi- tants - a prey to every invader ; their cities plundered without an enemy ; their magistrates seeking redress by complaints , and not by vigour . Every thing conspires to ( 1 ) ...
... present wretchedness and pusillanimity of its inhabi- tants - a prey to every invader ; their cities plundered without an enemy ; their magistrates seeking redress by complaints , and not by vigour . Every thing conspires to ( 1 ) ...
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... present enjoyments may be more refined , but they are infi- nitely less pleasing . The pleasure Garrick gives can no way compare to that I had received from a country wag , who imitated a Quaker's sermon . The music of Mattei ( 1 ) is ...
... present enjoyments may be more refined , but they are infi- nitely less pleasing . The pleasure Garrick gives can no way compare to that I had received from a country wag , who imitated a Quaker's sermon . The music of Mattei ( 1 ) is ...
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... present should always be suited to the dignity of the re- ceiver . Thus the rich receive large presents , and are thanked for accepting them . Men of middling stations are obliged to be content with presents something less ; while the ...
... present should always be suited to the dignity of the re- ceiver . Thus the rich receive large presents , and are thanked for accepting them . Men of middling stations are obliged to be content with presents something less ; while the ...
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... presents , of enter- tainments , and the other helps to cheerfulness , are actions merely indifferent , when not repugnant ... present benefactions , so as to render us incapable of future ones . Misers are generally characterized as men ...
... presents , of enter- tainments , and the other helps to cheerfulness , are actions merely indifferent , when not repugnant ... present benefactions , so as to render us incapable of future ones . Misers are generally characterized as men ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 298 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 298 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Página iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Página 298 - To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Página 298 - To die ; — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause...
Página 321 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 272 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 549 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Página 269 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Página 305 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...