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... opinion : on the contrary , I am ftill obftinate enough to maintain that the fame of your admired nation is more dazzling than folid , and owing rather to those false prejudices which we are early taught to conceive of them , than to ...
... opinion : on the contrary , I am ftill obftinate enough to maintain that the fame of your admired nation is more dazzling than folid , and owing rather to those false prejudices which we are early taught to conceive of them , than to ...
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... opinion , the moderns pay too blind a deference to the antients ; and though I have the high- eft veneration for feveral of their remains , yet I am inclined to think they have occa- fioned us the lofs of fome excellent ori- ginals ...
... opinion , the moderns pay too blind a deference to the antients ; and though I have the high- eft veneration for feveral of their remains , yet I am inclined to think they have occa- fioned us the lofs of fome excellent ori- ginals ...
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... opinion of the world as highly deficient in his mo- ral or intellectual qualities , who did not justly merit his reputation . But I speak only of those more nice and delicate traits which distinguish the feveral degrees of probity and ...
... opinion of the world as highly deficient in his mo- ral or intellectual qualities , who did not justly merit his reputation . But I speak only of those more nice and delicate traits which distinguish the feveral degrees of probity and ...
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... Sir Ifaac Newton has endeavoured to give of this amazing phenomenon , by means of his fubtil ether , has not afforded uni- verfal fatisfaction and it is the opinion of a very great writer , who feems to have gone far very 36 LETTER VIII .
... Sir Ifaac Newton has endeavoured to give of this amazing phenomenon , by means of his fubtil ether , has not afforded uni- verfal fatisfaction and it is the opinion of a very great writer , who feems to have gone far very 36 LETTER VIII .
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... opinion for which I am contending has prevailed from the remoteft account of time . It must undoubtedly have entered the world as early as religion herself ; fince all institu tions of that kind muft neceffarily be found- ed upon the ...
... opinion for which I am contending has prevailed from the remoteft account of time . It must undoubtedly have entered the world as early as religion herself ; fince all institu tions of that kind muft neceffarily be found- ed upon the ...
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Page 66 - It muft be acknowledged, indeed, that in the times which fucceeded the diflblution of the Roman republic, this art was fo perverted from its true end as to become the fingle ftudy of their enervated orators.
Page 345 - I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except matter of fact. And when I venture to deliver any thing by way of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do.
Page 309 - There must be a great agitation of mind to invent, a great calm to judge and correct ; there must be upon the same tree, and at the same time, both flower and fruit.
Page 363 - ... of its opinions, with greater force of conviction than any other method we can employ. That ' it is not good for man to be alone...
Page 358 - But even if we look up to those who move in much superior orbits, and who have opportunities to improve, as well as leisure to exercise their understandings, we shall find that thinking is one of the...
Page 4 - If we see right, we see our woes: Then what avails it to have eyes? From ignorance our comfort flows. The only wretched are the wise. We wearied should lie down in death: This cheat of life would take no more; If you thought fame but empty breath; I, Phillis, but a perjur'd whore.
Page 115 - ... of my acquaintance, a captain of a privateer, who wrote an account to his owners of an engagement, " in which he had the good fortune, " he told them, of having only one of his
Page 272 - For him through hostile camps I bent my way, For him thus prostrate at thy feet I lay; Large gifts proportion'd to thy wrath I bear; O hear the wretched, and the gods revere!
Page 219 - But in fome places he feems not to have touched it with that delicacy of pencil, which graces the original ; as he has entirely loft the beauty of one of the figures. Hector is...
Page 186 - Horace have given us the rules of criticism, that we submit to their authority ; it is because those rules are derived from works which have been distinguished by the uninterrupted admiration of all the more improved part of mankind, from their earliest appearance down to this present hour. For whatever, through a long series of ages, has been universally esteemed as beautiful, cannot but be conformable to our just and natural ideas of beauty.