The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ... Containing General Correspondence, Classical Disquisitions, Account of Rare and Curious Books, Memoirs of Distinguished Persons, Original Poetry, Literary and Miscellaneous Information, المجلد 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... virtue under the sun for twenty pounds a year . ' The author of the following let- ter seems to have had this lesson to learn . It is a genuine epistle , sent by a deceased nobleman of the sister - island to a very respectable gentleman ...
... virtue under the sun for twenty pounds a year . ' The author of the following let- ter seems to have had this lesson to learn . It is a genuine epistle , sent by a deceased nobleman of the sister - island to a very respectable gentleman ...
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... virtue is not vice : at most , the fullest extent of the interpretation applicable to these words would persuade those who implicitly adopted them to allot an equal share of merit , to the hebetated and cloistered recluse , who dreains ...
... virtue is not vice : at most , the fullest extent of the interpretation applicable to these words would persuade those who implicitly adopted them to allot an equal share of merit , to the hebetated and cloistered recluse , who dreains ...
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... virtue , must be preced- ed by a dereliction of vice : our access to knowledge is introduced by a renunciation of Folly . " Surely , this version is far preferable to the only translation of which its former punctuation was susceptible ...
... virtue , must be preced- ed by a dereliction of vice : our access to knowledge is introduced by a renunciation of Folly . " Surely , this version is far preferable to the only translation of which its former punctuation was susceptible ...
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... virtue , occupies on the surface of the earth a space but little proportioned to its historical celebrity . The greater part of the country now denominated Turkey in Europe , was almost unknown to the Greeks , and was justly classed ...
... virtue , occupies on the surface of the earth a space but little proportioned to its historical celebrity . The greater part of the country now denominated Turkey in Europe , was almost unknown to the Greeks , and was justly classed ...
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... virtue , the durability of its institutions , and the subserviency of private to pub- lic feelings ; and presents an interesting example of the empire of cir- cumstances cumstances and education over the human mind , from which 28 { Jan ...
... virtue , the durability of its institutions , and the subserviency of private to pub- lic feelings ; and presents an interesting example of the empire of cir- cumstances cumstances and education over the human mind , from which 28 { Jan ...
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الصفحة 146 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 172 - I communicate also a statistical view, procured and forwarded by him, of the Indian nations inhabiting the Territory of Louisiana...
الصفحة 265 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
الصفحة 146 - So far in relation to the upper terminus of the long man; next, with reference to the lower terminus, Gibbon goes on: " And that his pupils, ^Eschines and Demosthenes, contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
الصفحة 245 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
الصفحة 459 - To bear the ills they have, Than fly to others that they know not of.
الصفحة 120 - Fables; but he frankly declared to me his mind, "that he did not delight in that learning, because he did not believe they were true"; for which reason I found he had very much turned his studies, for about a twelve-month past, into the lives and adventures of don Bellianis of Greece, Guy of Warwick, the Seven Champions, and other historians of that age.
الصفحة 65 - Like fears that cross the mind, Like meteors gleaming through the night, Like thunders on the wind. The vision of the tomb is past ; Beyond it who can tell In what mysterious region cast Immortal spirits dwell ? I know not, but I soon shall know When life's sore conflicts cease, When this desponding heart lies low, And I shall rest in peace. For see, on Death's bewildering wave, The rainbow Hope arise, A bridge of glory o'er the grave, That bends beyond the skies.
الصفحة 115 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
الصفحة 6 - The excellent lady, the Lady Lizard, in the space of one summer, furnished a gallery with chairs and couches of her own and her daughters' working ; and at the same time heard all Dr.