Common Sense: Or, the Englishman's Journal: Being a Collection of Letters, Political, Humorous, and Moral; Publish'd Weekly Under that Title, for the First Year.., Volumen2Printed, and sold by J. Purser in White-Fryars; and G. Hawkins, at Milton's-Head between the Two Temple Gates, Fleetstreet., 1738 |
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Página 300 - It is a mistake to think this fault is proper only to monarchies. Other forms of government are liable to it as well as that; for wherever the power that is put in any hands for the government of the people and the preservation of their properties is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the arbitrary and irregular commands of those that have it, there it presently becomes tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
Página 230 - Woman's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners, unless directed by a judgment which seldom accompanies a great degree of either ; her beauty seems but the proper and decent lodging for such a mind ; she knows the true value of it, and far from thinking that it authorizes impertinence and coquetry, it redoubles her care to avoid those errors that are its usual attendants. Thus she not only unites in herself all the advantages of body and mind, but even reconciles contradictions in...
Página 226 - Eudosia would content herself with her natural talents, play at cards, make tea and visits, talk to her dog often, and to her company but sometimes, she would not be ridiculous, but bear a very tolerable part in the polite world.
Página 140 - ... goods of the mind ; and external, or the goods of fortune. The goods of the mind are natural or acquired virtues, as wisdom, prudence, and courage, &c. The goods of fortune are riches.
Página 228 - ... volume, page 2891, of his learned treatise De Hermaphroditis, that all the reputed female heroes of antiquity were of this epicene species, though out of regard to the fair and modest part of my readers I dare not quote the several facts and reasonings with which he supports this assertion; and as for the heroines of modern date, we have more than suspicions of their being at least of the epicene gender. The greatest monarch that ever filled the...
Página 75 - Sense, praised it in the warmest terms, not only for its poetical beauties, but its political tendency, " the whole plan and purpose of it being to show the superiority of freedom over slavery ; and how much virtue, public spirit, and the love of liberty are preferable both in their nature and effects, to riches, luxury, and the insolence of power.
Página 229 - How, amiable may a woman be, what a comfort and delight to her acquaintance, her friends, her relations, her lover, or her husband, in keeping strictly within her character ! She adorns all female virtues with native female softness.
Página 187 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Página 76 - ... criticks, from the rules of Bossu and Rapin. But I know that those authors have no other foundation for their rules, than the practice of Homer and Virgil in this particular; and I dare appeal to every man of sense, whether or no, even in them, he has not found the mythological part the least agreeable, and in many places really disgustful? What Longinus says of Homer is as true when applied to Virgil, and other copiers of both, that they have debased their gods into men, and something worse;...
Página 116 - You seem to think, Sir, that to ridicule Vice, is, to serve its Cause. And you mention the late ingenious Mr. Gay, who, you say, in his Beggars Opera hath made Heroes and Heroines of Highwaymen and Whores. Are then Impudence, Boldness, Robbery, and picking Pockets the Characteristicks of a Hero? Indeed, Sir, we do not always approve what we laugh at. So far from it, Mr. Hobbes will tell you that Laughter is a Sign of Contempt.