The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, المجلد 4 |
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الصفحة 1
I am fick of that conversa tion which spends itself in railing at the times we live in ; I am apt to think they are not made better by those complaints , and I have oftentimes occafion to know they are made worse by those very people ...
I am fick of that conversa tion which spends itself in railing at the times we live in ; I am apt to think they are not made better by those complaints , and I have oftentimes occafion to know they are made worse by those very people ...
الصفحة 2
But I do not wish to argue this point with the fect of the Murmurers merely upon the ground of good policy ; I should be forry for the world , if I could give no better reason for keeping well with it than in self - defence : I really ...
But I do not wish to argue this point with the fect of the Murmurers merely upon the ground of good policy ; I should be forry for the world , if I could give no better reason for keeping well with it than in self - defence : I really ...
الصفحة 3
I cannot look back to any period of our own annals , of which I can conscientiously pronounce , according to fuch judgment as I am poffeffed of , that the happiness of society was better fecured , and more completely provided for than ...
I cannot look back to any period of our own annals , of which I can conscientiously pronounce , according to fuch judgment as I am poffeffed of , that the happiness of society was better fecured , and more completely provided for than ...
الصفحة 4
Let us now enquire what is the present state of these great fundamentals of focial happiness , and whether any better period can be pointed out , compared to which their present state may be justly pronounced a state of declenfion .
Let us now enquire what is the present state of these great fundamentals of focial happiness , and whether any better period can be pointed out , compared to which their present state may be justly pronounced a state of declenfion .
الصفحة 7
If they do not ftun us with controverfies , it is because they understand the fpirit of their religion better than to engage in them : The publications of the pulpit are still numerous , and if they have dropt their high inflammatory ...
If they do not ftun us with controverfies , it is because they understand the fpirit of their religion better than to engage in them : The publications of the pulpit are still numerous , and if they have dropt their high inflammatory ...
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