A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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Side 26
... live ( one would have thought ) pretty well at ease , and to have been exempt from the pressures of extreme poverty . But yet with most of them it was much otherwise , and they fell perpetually into such mise- rable penury , that they ...
... live ( one would have thought ) pretty well at ease , and to have been exempt from the pressures of extreme poverty . But yet with most of them it was much otherwise , and they fell perpetually into such mise- rable penury , that they ...
Side 54
... lives are all of a piece ; where they serve a hard master they must follow his example as well as commands , and are forced upon imi- tation in small matters , as well as obedience in great ; so that some nations look as if they were ...
... lives are all of a piece ; where they serve a hard master they must follow his example as well as commands , and are forced upon imi- tation in small matters , as well as obedience in great ; so that some nations look as if they were ...
Side 55
... live the longest and the Egyptians the shortest of any nations that were known in those ages . Besides I think none will dispute the native courage of our men and the beauty of our women , which may be elsewhere as great in particulars ...
... live the longest and the Egyptians the shortest of any nations that were known in those ages . Besides I think none will dispute the native courage of our men and the beauty of our women , which may be elsewhere as great in particulars ...
Side 56
... and a laundress firm in those of Epicurus . What effect soever such a composition or medley of humours among us may have upon our lives or our government , it must needs have a good one upon our stage , and has given 56 ESSAY 12 .
... and a laundress firm in those of Epicurus . What effect soever such a composition or medley of humours among us may have upon our lives or our government , it must needs have a good one upon our stage , and has given 56 ESSAY 12 .
Side 59
... live and die so obscurely , that the world takes no notice of them . This Horace calls deceiving the world , and in another place uses the same phrase " Secretum iter et fallentis semita vitæ . " The secret tracks of the deceiving life ...
... live and die so obscurely , that the world takes no notice of them . This Horace calls deceiving the world , and in another place uses the same phrase " Secretum iter et fallentis semita vitæ . " The secret tracks of the deceiving life ...
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Side 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Side 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Side 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Side 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Side 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Side 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Side 16 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Side 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Side 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Side 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.