Works, Volume 4W. Durell, 1811 |
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... mankind xnua is así , an estate for ever , it was an additional favor to inform them of its value . It may , indeed , be no less dangerous to claim , on certain occasions , too little than too much . There is something captivating in ...
... mankind xnua is así , an estate for ever , it was an additional favor to inform them of its value . It may , indeed , be no less dangerous to claim , on certain occasions , too little than too much . There is something captivating in ...
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... mankind ; that , though the world must be granted to be yet in ignorance , he is not desti- ned to dispel the cloud , nor to shine out as one of the luminaries of life . For this suspicion , every catalogue of a library will furnish ...
... mankind ; that , though the world must be granted to be yet in ignorance , he is not desti- ned to dispel the cloud , nor to shine out as one of the luminaries of life . For this suspicion , every catalogue of a library will furnish ...
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... mankind . This kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance , and is to be conducted nearly by the rules of comic poetry . Its province is to bring about natural events by easy means , and to keep up cu- riosity ...
... mankind . This kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance , and is to be conducted nearly by the rules of comic poetry . Its province is to bring about natural events by easy means , and to keep up cu- riosity ...
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... mankind , those individuals upon which the attention ought most to be employed : as a diamond , though it cannot be made , may be polished by art , and placed in such a situation , as to display that lustre which before was buried among ...
... mankind , those individuals upon which the attention ought most to be employed : as a diamond , though it cannot be made , may be polished by art , and placed in such a situation , as to display that lustre which before was buried among ...
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... mankind , that posi- tions of this tendency should be laid open and confu- ted ; for while men consider good and evil as springing from the same root , they will spare the one for the sake of the other , and in judging , if not of ...
... mankind , that posi- tions of this tendency should be laid open and confu- ted ; for while men consider good and evil as springing from the same root , they will spare the one for the sake of the other , and in judging , if not of ...
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Page 43 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 362 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. "He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he...
Page 243 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick -axe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Page 331 - FRANCIS. -i\LL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Page 17 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Page 336 - 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 332 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Page 19 - But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part.
Page 334 - Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion. Thus the story of Melancthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us that, when he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense...
Page 89 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.