Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Band 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 Seiten |
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... course with the fame ftrength and facility as before , but floated along timorously and feebly , endangered by every breeze , and thattered by every rule of the water , till they funk , by flow degrees , after long Aruggles , and ...
... course with the fame ftrength and facility as before , but floated along timorously and feebly , endangered by every breeze , and thattered by every rule of the water , till they funk , by flow degrees , after long Aruggles , and ...
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... course neglect others . This imperfection which we cbferve in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves in fome de . gree to creatures of the highest capacities , as they are creatures , that is , beings of finite and limited natures ...
... course neglect others . This imperfection which we cbferve in ourselves , is an imperfection that cleaves in fome de . gree to creatures of the highest capacities , as they are creatures , that is , beings of finite and limited natures ...
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... course of nature would quickly fail , and every various kind be extinct ? Inftances of tenderness in the moft favage brutes are fo frequent , that quotations of that kind are altogether un- necellary . If we , who have no particular ...
... course of nature would quickly fail , and every various kind be extinct ? Inftances of tenderness in the moft favage brutes are fo frequent , that quotations of that kind are altogether un- necellary . If we , who have no particular ...
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... course of virtue ! I fhall therefore endeavour to lay down fome rules for the difcovery of thofe vices that lurk in the fecret corners of the foul ; and to fhew my reader those methods , by which he may arrive at a true and impartial ...
... course of virtue ! I fhall therefore endeavour to lay down fome rules for the difcovery of thofe vices that lurk in the fecret corners of the foul ; and to fhew my reader those methods , by which he may arrive at a true and impartial ...
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... course of human affairs it will be found , that a plain understanding , joined with acknowledged worth , contri- butes more to prosperity , than the brightest parts without probity or honour . Whether fcience , or business , or public ...
... course of human affairs it will be found , that a plain understanding , joined with acknowledged worth , contri- butes more to prosperity , than the brightest parts without probity or honour . Whether fcience , or business , or public ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Seite 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Seite 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Seite 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Seite 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Seite 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Seite 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Seite 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Seite 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...