 | 1803 - 412 Seiten
...life worth pursuing, w'Mch had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...season. I may also add, that there are no parts in historv which affect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this, because... | |
 | 1803 - 372 Seiten
...life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader, as those accounts...persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. 1 may also add, that there are no parts in history which affect and please- the reader in so sensible... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 Seiten
...upwards of ninety. His *. " There is nothing in history," says this elegant writer in another place, " which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour *f at that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts "in history, which affect .and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 Seiten
...life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader, as those accounts...take to be this, because there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of every one who reads it.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 Seiten
...pursuing, which had not regard to another. VOL. X. 2 The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this, there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 Seiten
...enjoy it; since it makes me both the happier and the better man." (5) " There is nothing in history, which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with ot the deaths ol" eminent persons, and of their behaviour at that dreadful season." C . EXAMPLES OF... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 306 Seiten
...life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this, there is no other single circumstance in the story of any person, which can possibly be the case of... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 Seiten
...life worth pursuing which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behavior in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history which, N 2 affect... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 Seiten
...Spectator, No. 186'. t " There is nothing in history," says this elegant writer in another place, " which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of einiuenl persons, and 'of their behaviour at that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no... | |
 | Spectator The - 1811 - 802 Seiten
...life worth pursuing, which had not regard to another. The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts...also add, that there are no parts in history which alfect and please the reader in so sensible a manner. The reason I take to be this, because there is... | |
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The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader^ as those accounts which we meet with of the deaths of eminent persons, and of their behaviour in that dreadful season. I may also add, that there are no parts in history... 
