The Miscellaneous Works: Apothegms and maxims for the good conduct of life, &c. Observations and queries on the present laws of this kingdom, relative to persons of the popish religion. Some observations upon libelsR. Marchbank, and sold by S. Price, W. Watson, 1782 |
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الصفحة viii
... such fentiment as led to the promoting of Religion , Virtue , and good Conduct ; and to reject all those , let the wit or humour be ever so pleasing , or brilliant , that in the least tended to turn ferious things into ridicule , ( as ...
... such fentiment as led to the promoting of Religion , Virtue , and good Conduct ; and to reject all those , let the wit or humour be ever so pleasing , or brilliant , that in the least tended to turn ferious things into ridicule , ( as ...
الصفحة x
... BACON , ROCHEFOUCAULT , SELDEN , HA- LIFAX , TEMPLE , BERKELEY , SWIFT , POPE , ROLLIN , YOUNG , OCKLEY'S HISTORY OF THE TURKS , PALMER , SHENSTONE , and others . Such Such of them as are of my own compo- fition X TO THE READER .
... BACON , ROCHEFOUCAULT , SELDEN , HA- LIFAX , TEMPLE , BERKELEY , SWIFT , POPE , ROLLIN , YOUNG , OCKLEY'S HISTORY OF THE TURKS , PALMER , SHENSTONE , and others . Such Such of them as are of my own compo- fition X TO THE READER .
الصفحة xi
Gorges Edmond Howard. Such of them as are of my own compo- fition , and they are not a few ( I think I may with safety say a third ) I have formed from many of thofe ingenious and exalted reflections , religious and moral , which are ...
Gorges Edmond Howard. Such of them as are of my own compo- fition , and they are not a few ( I think I may with safety say a third ) I have formed from many of thofe ingenious and exalted reflections , religious and moral , which are ...
الصفحة 80
... Such is the order of nature . Though memory and invention are not upon good terms , yet when the first is added , the other is usually stifled . The memory hath claws by which it holdeth faft , but it hath no wings like the invention to ...
... Such is the order of nature . Though memory and invention are not upon good terms , yet when the first is added , the other is usually stifled . The memory hath claws by which it holdeth faft , but it hath no wings like the invention to ...
الصفحة 84
... such as have their fortunes folely depending upon you . When it is once paffed noon with a favourite , it is presently night with him . The good fortune of the court hath few fure friends with it , the ill fortune none . A prince's ...
... such as have their fortunes folely depending upon you . When it is once paffed noon with a favourite , it is presently night with him . The good fortune of the court hath few fure friends with it , the ill fortune none . A prince's ...
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الصفحة 33 - Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
الصفحة 96 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
الصفحة 343 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
الصفحة 333 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion and government.
الصفحة 65 - The first part of this rule, which regards our behaviour towards an enemy, is indeed very reasonable, as well as very prudential; but the latter part of it, which regards our behaviour towards...
الصفحة 190 - They must necessarily arise from the passions, which are to the mind as the winds to a ship ; they only can move it, and they too often destroy it : if fair and gentle, they guide it into the harbour ; if contrary and furious, they overset it in the waves.
الصفحة 333 - But, to punish (as the law does at present) any dangerous or offensive writings, which, when published, shall, on a fair and impartial trial, be adjudged of a pernicious tendency, is necessary for the preservation of peace and good order, of government and religion, the only solid foundations of civil liberty.
الصفحة 234 - Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence?
الصفحة 52 - That there is '' but this difference between the death of old men " and young men ; that old men go to death, and
الصفحة 9 - Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy when great ones are not in the way ; for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.