The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The RamblerE. Sargeant, and M. & W. Ward; and Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston., 1811 - English essays |
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... things from their origin to their period , and compare means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and powers , to real ...
... things from their origin to their period , and compare means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; shew the insufficiency of wealth , honours , and powers , to real ...
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... thing that terminated on this side of the grave was received with coldness and in- difference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing it , than from any opinion that it deserved value ; it had little more preva ...
... thing that terminated on this side of the grave was received with coldness and in- difference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing it , than from any opinion that it deserved value ; it had little more preva ...
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... thing more than , " Nay , if you are angry , madam Steeple , you may walk off . " When once the forms of civility are violated , there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency . My mamma made this appearance of resentment a ...
... thing more than , " Nay , if you are angry , madam Steeple , you may walk off . " When once the forms of civility are violated , there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency . My mamma made this appearance of resentment a ...
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... things ; and though I do not pretend to give laws to the legis- lators of mankind , or to limit the range of those powerful minds that carry light and heat through all the regions of knowledge , yet I have long thought , that the ...
... things ; and though I do not pretend to give laws to the legis- lators of mankind , or to limit the range of those powerful minds that carry light and heat through all the regions of knowledge , yet I have long thought , that the ...
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... things ; but the mere power of saving what is already in our hands , must be easy of acquisition to every mind ; and as the example of Bacon may shew , that the highest intellect can- not safely neglect it , a thousand instances will ...
... things ; but the mere power of saving what is already in our hands , must be easy of acquisition to every mind ; and as the example of Bacon may shew , that the highest intellect can- not safely neglect it , a thousand instances will ...
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Page 248 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 80 - ... us, and disease and Anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made: that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at...
Page 239 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 80 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Page 47 - ... faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Page 210 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 224 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 47 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Page 223 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...
Page 199 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.