Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 páginas |
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... reflect the greatest honour on the human mind , are frequently of the least benefit to it ! A man , who understands the four fundamental rules of arithmetic , aided by a little good fenfe , fhall amass prodigious wealth in trade , fhall ...
... reflect the greatest honour on the human mind , are frequently of the least benefit to it ! A man , who understands the four fundamental rules of arithmetic , aided by a little good fenfe , fhall amass prodigious wealth in trade , fhall ...
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... reflect on the blindness and mifery of man , and the astonishing contrarieties which are feen in his nature : and when I behold the whole univerfe dumb ; and man uncnlightened , left to himself , and wandering * ' Tis in the original ...
... reflect on the blindness and mifery of man , and the astonishing contrarieties which are feen in his nature : and when I behold the whole univerfe dumb ; and man uncnlightened , left to himself , and wandering * ' Tis in the original ...
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... reflect on the wretch- edness of their condition . VI . WHILST I was perufing this reflection , I received a letter from a friend who lives in a far distant country . His words are as follow , / .. cc " I AM at this time exactly as when ...
... reflect on the wretch- edness of their condition . VI . WHILST I was perufing this reflection , I received a letter from a friend who lives in a far distant country . His words are as follow , / .. cc " I AM at this time exactly as when ...
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... reflect on our Being with horror ? our existence is not fo wretched as some persons would make us believe it to be . To confider the universe as a dungeon , and all mankind as fo many criminals car- rying to execution , is the idea of a ...
... reflect on our Being with horror ? our existence is not fo wretched as some persons would make us believe it to be . To confider the universe as a dungeon , and all mankind as fo many criminals car- rying to execution , is the idea of a ...
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... reflects fo much dishonour on them in every refpect ; an inftance of fincerity that is not to be paralleled nor can its root be in nature . IX . INSTANCES of this fincerity are met with every where , and the root of it springs What ...
... reflects fo much dishonour on them in every refpect ; an inftance of fincerity that is not to be paralleled nor can its root be in nature . IX . INSTANCES of this fincerity are met with every where , and the root of it springs What ...
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Página 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Página 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Página 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Página 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Página 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Página 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Página 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Página 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Página 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Página 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.