 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 338 pages
...mental servitude. — Adieu. LETTER CXIX. To tie same. THE misfortunes of the great, my friend, arc held up to engage our attention, are enlarged upon...and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers; they have at once the comfort of admiration and pity. Yet, where is the magnanimity of bearing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1765 - 252 pages
....;...- '.-« '.. .,.;•:. ', •••• •. • . ESSAY ESSAY XXIV. NO obfervation is more commoipi, and at the fame time more true, than That one half...gaze at the noble fufferers: the great, under the preffure of calamity, are confcious of feveral others fympathizing with their diftrefs; and have, at... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English essays - 1765 - 260 pages
...moft fervent, where the " heart is leaft fincere." ESSAY ESSAY XXIV. NO obfervation is more common, and at the fame time more true, than That one half...and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble fuffcrers : the great, under the preflure of calamity, are confcious of feveral others fympathizing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1767 - 632 pages
...more common, and at the fame time more true, than That one half of the world are ignorant how thç other half lives. The misfortunes of the great are...gaze at the noble fufferers : the great, under the preflure of calamity, are confcious of feveral others fympathifing with their diftrefs ; and have,... | |
 | 1786 - 782 pages
...fervittide.' Adieu. ТЙЕ misfortunes of the great, my friend, are held up to engage our attention j are enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the...world is called upon to gaze at the noble fufferers : they have at once the comfort of admiration and pity. Yet, where is the magnanimity of bearing misfortunes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Essays - 1792 - 308 pages
...half .of the world are ignorant how the other half lives. The misfortunes of the great are held ujrtp engage our attention ; are enlarged upon in tones...and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble fuffarers. The great, under the preffure of calacalamity, are confcious of fcveral others fympathizing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1793 - 620 pages
...of habitual miftry, exiaiflijied in tbi life of a dijabled Joldtcr. NO obfervation is more common, and at the fame time more true, than That one half...gaze at the noble fufferers : the great, under the prerture of calamity, are confcious of feveral others fympathifing with their diftrefs ; and have,... | |
 | History - 1793 - 586 pages
...fjffeSs of babitual mifery, exemplified in the ii/t of a dijabled JoUitr. NO obfervation is more common, and at the fame time more true, than That one half...enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the world ie called upon to gaze at the noble fufferers : the great, under the preflure of calamity, are confcious... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...No obfervation is more common, and at the finie time more true, than, That one half of the world arc ignorant how the other half lives. The misfortunes...and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble fufterers : the great, under the preffure of calamity, are confcious of feveral others fympathizing... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...the \vorM are ignorant how the other half lives. The misfortune? of the grrat are held up to engaje our attention; are enlarged upon in tones of declamation;...and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble fufterers : the great, under the preffure of calamity, are confcious of fcve'sl others fympath'i/ing... | |
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The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention ; are enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers... 
