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الصفحة 24
... Bossu , and the two Daciers , who are for vindicating every thing that is
censured in Homer , by something parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very
well pleased had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tripodes with Ezekiel's
Wheels .
... Bossu , and the two Daciers , who are for vindicating every thing that is
censured in Homer , by something parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very
well pleased had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tripodes with Ezekiel's
Wheels .
الصفحة 115
Merit , both as to Wit and Beauty , . is become no other than the Possession of a
few trifling People's Favour , which you cannot possibly arrive at , if you have
really any thing in you that is deserving . What they would bring to pass , is , to
make ...
Merit , both as to Wit and Beauty , . is become no other than the Possession of a
few trifling People's Favour , which you cannot possibly arrive at , if you have
really any thing in you that is deserving . What they would bring to pass , is , to
make ...
الصفحة 132
This is so fashionable , that young Men form themselves upon a certain Neglect
of every thing that is candid , fimple , and worthy of true Efteem ; and affect beiog
yet worse than they are , by acknowledging in their general turn of Mind and ...
This is so fashionable , that young Men form themselves upon a certain Neglect
of every thing that is candid , fimple , and worthy of true Efteem ; and affect beiog
yet worse than they are , by acknowledging in their general turn of Mind and ...
الصفحة 133
If the Show of any thing • be good for any thing , I am sure Sincerity is better : For
why does any Man disemble , or seem to be that which she is not , but because
he thinks it good to have such a $ Quality as he pretends to ? for to counterfeit ...
If the Show of any thing • be good for any thing , I am sure Sincerity is better : For
why does any Man disemble , or seem to be that which she is not , but because
he thinks it good to have such a $ Quality as he pretends to ? for to counterfeit ...
الصفحة 139
Tho ' I need not have gone for my • Instance further than Germany , where several
Emperors • have voluntarily done the fame thing Leopold the last • worked in
Wood ; and I have heard there are several handycraft Works of his making to be ...
Tho ' I need not have gone for my • Instance further than Germany , where several
Emperors • have voluntarily done the fame thing Leopold the last • worked in
Wood ; and I have heard there are several handycraft Works of his making to be ...
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الصفحة 60 - ... up the entry in good order, the captain and I went in with him, and seated him betwixt us in the pit. As soon as the house was full, and the candles lighted, my old friend stood up, and looked about him with that pleasure which a mind seasoned with humanity naturally feels in...
الصفحة 133 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it...
الصفحة 79 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
الصفحة 50 - There are indeed so many wonderful strokes of poetry in this book, and such a variety of sublime ideas, that it would have been impossible to have given them a place within the bounds of this paper.
الصفحة 135 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
الصفحة 231 - ... compel us to any thing ; but we will not eat the bread of shame ; and therefore we charge thee not to think of us, but to avoid the snare which is laid for thy virtue. Beware 'of pitying us : it is not so bad as you perhaps have been told.
الصفحة 35 - I'll warrant you,' says Sir Roger; 'you ought to lock up your kings better; they will carry off the body too, if you don't take care.' The glorious names of Henry the Fifth and queen Elizabeth gave the knight great opportunities of shining, and of doing justice to Sir Richard Baker, who...
الصفحة 134 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
الصفحة 118 - Whilst he is capable of changing, we may be forced to retract our opinions. He may forfeit the esteem we have conceived of him, and some time or other appear to us under a different light from what he does at present. In short, as the life of any man cannot be called happy or unhappy, so neither can it be pronounced vicious, or virtuous, before the conclusion of it. It was upon this...
الصفحة 23 - The morning hymn is written in imitation of one of those psalms where, in the overflowings of gratitude and praise, the psalmist calls not only upon the angels, but upon the most conspicuous parts of the inanimate creation, to join with him in extolling their common Maker. Invocations of this nature fill the mind with glorious ideas of God's works, and awaken that divine enthusiasm, which is so natural to devotion. But if this calling upon the dead parts of nature is at all times a proper kind of...