The MiniaturePrinted and sold for the author by C. Knight, 1805 - 368 páginas |
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... attention , and occupy their thoughts , not unprofitably during one fhort in- terval of leifure , may this be fufficient to palliate the defects of ftyle , and faults of compofition , which a more fevere fcrutiny would eafily dif- cover ...
... attention , and occupy their thoughts , not unprofitably during one fhort in- terval of leifure , may this be fufficient to palliate the defects of ftyle , and faults of compofition , which a more fevere fcrutiny would eafily dif- cover ...
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... , they seem to grow by abuse ; and the more fault is found , the more attention is bestowed . Every tutor condemns them , every pupil reads them . From the drawing - room to the nursery , from the palace to the shop ,
... , they seem to grow by abuse ; and the more fault is found , the more attention is bestowed . Every tutor condemns them , every pupil reads them . From the drawing - room to the nursery , from the palace to the shop ,
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... the political hori- zon , demand more particularly the attention of History ; since it is from the observation alone of Mankind in their primary condition , that the E former can with certainty discover the principles of all their.
... the political hori- zon , demand more particularly the attention of History ; since it is from the observation alone of Mankind in their primary condition , that the E former can with certainty discover the principles of all their.
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Solomon Grildrig. once formed the taste of his countrymen , and diverted their attention to more liberal pursuits , we shall find him succeeded but two centuries afterwards by Tasso , the second Virgil of Italy , who conducted its poetry ...
Solomon Grildrig. once formed the taste of his countrymen , and diverted their attention to more liberal pursuits , we shall find him succeeded but two centuries afterwards by Tasso , the second Virgil of Italy , who conducted its poetry ...
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... attention , more important to the interests of humanity . When we look on the present con- dition of the European states , who seem to have surpassed every possible degree of elegance and knowledge ; when we observe the nicety to which ...
... attention , more important to the interests of humanity . When we look on the present con- dition of the European states , who seem to have surpassed every possible degree of elegance and knowledge ; when we observe the nicety to which ...
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Página 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Página 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Página 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Página 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Página 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Página 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Página 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Página 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;