The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلدات 19-20 |
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الصفحة xxxi
... reason , from two incidents so apparently trifling as those in No. 96 ; and it must surely be an evidence of great powers of thinking , and great knowledge of the human heart , when a writer can elicit general instruction from scenes ...
... reason , from two incidents so apparently trifling as those in No. 96 ; and it must surely be an evidence of great powers of thinking , and great knowledge of the human heart , when a writer can elicit general instruction from scenes ...
الصفحة 3
... reason , as worthless and contemptible , as the robber who defies a gibbet for the hire of a strumpet , or the fool who lays out his whole property on a lottery ticket . Reason considers the motive , the means , and the end ; and ...
... reason , as worthless and contemptible , as the robber who defies a gibbet for the hire of a strumpet , or the fool who lays out his whole property on a lottery ticket . Reason considers the motive , the means , and the end ; and ...
الصفحة 8
... reason , the labour of the mind , even when it is adequately rewarded , does not procure means of happiness in the same proportion as that of the body . They that sing at the loom , or whistle after the plough , wish not for ...
... reason , the labour of the mind , even when it is adequately rewarded , does not procure means of happiness in the same proportion as that of the body . They that sing at the loom , or whistle after the plough , wish not for ...
الصفحة 23
... reason would separate , or whether the mind is passive and receives impressions from some invisible agent , the memory seems to lie wholly torpid , and the understanding to be employed only about such objects as are then presented ...
... reason would separate , or whether the mind is passive and receives impressions from some invisible agent , the memory seems to lie wholly torpid , and the understanding to be employed only about such objects as are then presented ...
الصفحة 29
... reason . But though man is still my enemy , though he assails me with more violence , and persists with more obsti- nacy , I have yet less power of resistance ; there is a rebel in my own bosom who will labour to give me up , whose ...
... reason . But though man is still my enemy , though he assails me with more violence , and persists with more obsti- nacy , I have yet less power of resistance ; there is a rebel in my own bosom who will labour to give me up , whose ...
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acquainted advantage Adventurer Æsop Alibeg Amurath appear astonishment Azail bagnio Bagshot Bathurst beauty caliph cerned character contempt curiosity daugh death delight desire disappointed discovered distress dreadful effect endeavoured enjoyment entertainment equally evil expected eyes fable father favour fear felicity folly fore gentleman gratify greater happiness hast Hawkesworth heard honour hope human husband imagination immediately indulged Joseph Warton judgement kind labour lady less lived mankind MARCH 27 marriage Melissa ment mind misery moral morning nature never night object OPSINOUS OVID pain pantomime paper passions perceived perpetual person Phidyle pity pleasure precept present produced prostitution punishment racter reason received regard regret religion remembered rendered restrained risum scarce seraglio servant sion Sir John Hawkins soon story suffered thee thou thought tion told truth TUESDAY vanity venison vice VIRG virtue WARTON wife wish wretched young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 61 - Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
الصفحة 24 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
الصفحة 23 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
الصفحة 27 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
الصفحة 61 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
الصفحة 61 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
الصفحة 97 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
الصفحة 51 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
الصفحة 96 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all Nature's law, Admired such wisdom in an earthly shape, And show'da Newton as we show an ape.
الصفحة 61 - Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.