Essays, Moral and Literary, Volumen 2R. Marchbank, 1783 |
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... taste , is one of the first objects of a claffical difcipline and it is this fine quality which opens a new world to the fcholar's view . Elegance of tafte has a connection with many virtues , and all of them virtues of the most amiable ...
... taste , is one of the first objects of a claffical difcipline and it is this fine quality which opens a new world to the fcholar's view . Elegance of tafte has a connection with many virtues , and all of them virtues of the most amiable ...
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... taste and ba- bit are very defirable in themselves , exclufive of their effects in meliorating the morals and difpofition , and promoting present and future felicity . They add dig- nity , pleasure , and fecurity , to any age ; but to ...
... taste and ba- bit are very defirable in themselves , exclufive of their effects in meliorating the morals and difpofition , and promoting present and future felicity . They add dig- nity , pleasure , and fecurity , to any age ; but to ...
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... taste and fondness for it , he was not happy in it . The captivating fcenes which he created at the Lea- fowes , afforded him , it is faid , little pleasure in the abfence of spectators . The truth is , he made the em- bellishment of ...
... taste and fondness for it , he was not happy in it . The captivating fcenes which he created at the Lea- fowes , afforded him , it is faid , little pleasure in the abfence of spectators . The truth is , he made the em- bellishment of ...
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... taste . But though it may be difficult to analyse this agreeable quality , or to teach a writer how to infuse it into his works , yet it is by no means equally arduous to point out a few authors , in whom both the obfervations of others ...
... taste . But though it may be difficult to analyse this agreeable quality , or to teach a writer how to infuse it into his works , yet it is by no means equally arduous to point out a few authors , in whom both the obfervations of others ...
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... taste of readers is another cause of the degeneracy of writers . They who write for the public , muft gratify the taste of the public . In vain are their compofitions formed on the model of the best writers , and regulated by the ...
... taste of readers is another cause of the degeneracy of writers . They who write for the public , muft gratify the taste of the public . In vain are their compofitions formed on the model of the best writers , and regulated by the ...
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Página 156 - ... laws imported from the continent, whereby the slaughter of a beast was made almost as penal as the death of a man. In the Saxon times, though no man was allowed to kill or chase the king's deer, yet he might start any game, pursue and kill it upon his own estate. But the rigour of these new constitutions vested the sole property of all the game in England in the king alone...
Página 271 - That one half of the world knows not how the other half lives, is a common and juft obfervation.
Página 306 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Página 97 - If you are struck by the appearance of any promised pleasure, guard yourself against being hurried away by it; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time : that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself after you have enjoyed it; and set before you, in opposition to these, how you will rejoice and applaud yourself if you abstain. And even though it should appear to you a seasonable...
Página 180 - It fubdues the haughty foul elevated with riches and inebriated with excefs, and turns the attention to the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes...
Página 281 - ... against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition...
Página 288 - ... there. He had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. He gave a deep sigh : I saw the iron enter into his soul. I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture...
Página 282 - No ! the charges against me are all of one kind : that I have pushed the principles of general justice and benevolence too far, — further than a cautious policy would warrant, and further than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, in pain, in sorrow, in depression, and distress, I will call to mind this accusation, and be comforted.
Página 328 - Modish, animated with the conscious merit of the largest or smallest buckles in the room, according to the temporary ton, would have laughed Pompey the Great out of countenance. Oh, Cicero, had you lived in...
Página 330 - Those instructions are contained in my book of Offices ; a book which has ever been cited by the world as a proof to what a height the morality of the heathens was advanced without the light of revelation. I own I feel a conscious pride in it; not on account of the ability which it may display, but for the principles it teaches, and the good, I flatter myself, it has diffused. You did not indeed intend your instructions for the world ; but as you gave them to a son you loved, it may...