Fragments of essays [by C. Leigh]. |
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الصفحة 1 - Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower ? No: gayer insects fluttering by !Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.
الصفحة 9 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
الصفحة 70 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
الصفحة 103 - ... produce contrary effects are fit to be rejected. When we perceive, therefore, that the laws and manners of a state are such as tend to promote the exercise of honesty and virtue, as it is very reasonable for us to conclude that the state itself is virtuous, and the members of it free from all reproach ; so, on the other hand, when an immoderate desire of gain governs the life of every private citizen, and the public transactions of the state are contrary to justice, we may safely venture to declare...
الصفحة 35 - Better to hunt in fields for health nnbonght, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.
الصفحة 105 - Cornelius, who, in opposition to all reason, delivered himself to the enemy, in the time of the war of Sicily. Many other examples also might be found of the same imprudence. And, from these it may fairly be concluded, that whoever, without due consideration and inquiry, throw themselves into the power of their enemies, are very greatly to be blamed. On the other hand, when men have before employed...