The RamblerHarrison, 1792 - 463 pages |
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... believe their mitrels withes for the difcovery . The fame method , if it were practicable to writers , would fave many complaints of the fe- verity of the age , and the caprices of criticiim . If a man could glide imper- ceptibly into ...
... believe their mitrels withes for the difcovery . The fame method , if it were practicable to writers , would fave many complaints of the fe- verity of the age , and the caprices of criticiim . If a man could glide imper- ceptibly into ...
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... believe au- thors willing rather to tranfmit than ex- amine fo advantageous a principle , and more inclined to purfue a track fo fmooth and fo flowery , than attentively to con- fider whether it leads to truth . This quality of looking ...
... believe au- thors willing rather to tranfmit than ex- amine fo advantageous a principle , and more inclined to purfue a track fo fmooth and fo flowery , than attentively to con- fider whether it leads to truth . This quality of looking ...
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... believe that he poffibly may deserve neglect , that nature may not have qua- lified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge , nor fent him forth entitled by indifputable fuperiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind ...
... believe that he poffibly may deserve neglect , that nature may not have qua- lified him much to enlarge or embellish knowledge , nor fent him forth entitled by indifputable fuperiority to regulate the conduct of the rest of mankind ...
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... believe that modern criticks , who , if they have not the eyes , have the watchfulness of Argus , and can bark as loud as Cerberus , though perhaps they cannot bite with equal force , might be fubdued by methods of the fame kind . I ...
... believe that modern criticks , who , if they have not the eyes , have the watchfulness of Argus , and can bark as loud as Cerberus , though perhaps they cannot bite with equal force , might be fubdued by methods of the fame kind . I ...
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... believe , and will be at laft incited to exe- cute what they please themselves with contriving . For this reason the cafuifts of the Romish church , who gain , by confef- fion , great opportunities of knowing human nature , have ...
... believe , and will be at laft incited to exe- cute what they please themselves with contriving . For this reason the cafuifts of the Romish church , who gain , by confef- fion , great opportunities of knowing human nature , have ...
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Page 318 - And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 140 - Tenderness, overpower his Fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Page 285 - The works and operations of nature are too great in their extent, or too much diffused in their relations, and the performances of art too inconstant and uncertain, to be reduced to any determinate idea.
Page 117 - He that would pass the latter part of life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old ; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.
Page 150 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
Page 271 - ... he that is growing great and happy by electrifying a bottle, wonders how the world can be engaged by trifling prattle about war or peace.
Page 151 - ... ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above shall find danger and difficulty give way before him.
Page 233 - ... rotations, towards the centre. She then repented her temerity, and with all her force endeavoured to retreat ; but the draught of the gulph was generally too...
Page 140 - If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue and to truth...
Page 261 - He who knows not how often rigorous laws produce total impunity, and how many crimes are concealed and forgotten for fear of hurrying the offender to that state in which there is no repentance, has conversed very little with mankind.