Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1792 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... never called to any high office of the ftate , though apparently better qualified than any of his predecef- fors of whom we have been treating . His cafe in this respect was peculiarly hard ; for though it fhould feem that Elizabeth ...
... never called to any high office of the ftate , though apparently better qualified than any of his predecef- fors of whom we have been treating . His cafe in this respect was peculiarly hard ; for though it fhould feem that Elizabeth ...
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... never uttered any thing equivalent to the opinion of Mr. Rouffeau ; they never taught that learned nations were neceffarily vicious ; or that there was an irresistible tendency in knowledge to corrupt the manners of mankind . If Mr ...
... never uttered any thing equivalent to the opinion of Mr. Rouffeau ; they never taught that learned nations were neceffarily vicious ; or that there was an irresistible tendency in knowledge to corrupt the manners of mankind . If Mr ...
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... never meant the bulk of men to poffefs any knowledge , because he has placed them in a fituation where it is impoffible for them to acquire it . We ought to enquire , whether this impoffibility refults from the appointment of the Deity ...
... never meant the bulk of men to poffefs any knowledge , because he has placed them in a fituation where it is impoffible for them to acquire it . We ought to enquire , whether this impoffibility refults from the appointment of the Deity ...
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... never to be trufted with information of any meature , until it was given them to exe- cate . They were the fervants , he faid , of the executive power ; not the power itfelf . This extraordinary doctrine will appear more fully , if the ...
... never to be trufted with information of any meature , until it was given them to exe- cate . They were the fervants , he faid , of the executive power ; not the power itfelf . This extraordinary doctrine will appear more fully , if the ...
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... never till then attained . Abroad , he established the importance , the honour , and dignity of his crown , upon a footing not known before his time to a king of this country , and made the name of Englishman refpectable in every corner ...
... never till then attained . Abroad , he established the importance , the honour , and dignity of his crown , upon a footing not known before his time to a king of this country , and made the name of Englishman refpectable in every corner ...
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Page 203 - I am much mistaken if some latent vigour would not soon give health and spirit to their eyes, and some lines drawn by the exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates.
Page 78 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Page 121 - Thee, in whose hand the keys of Science dwell, The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose constant vigils chase the chilling damp Oblivion steals upon her vestal-lamp.
Page 79 - But his superiority over other learned men consisted chiefly in what may be called the art of thinking, the art of using his mind ; a certain continual power of seizing the useful substance of all that he knew, and exhibiting it in a clear and forcible manner; so that knowledge, which we often see to be no better than lumber in men of dull understanding, was in him true, evident, and actual wisdom.
Page 202 - ... must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life or support after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?
Page 79 - ... was in him true, evident, and actual wisdom. His moral precepts are practical, for they are drawn from an intimate acquaintance with human nature. His maxims carry conviction : for they are founded on the basis of common sense, and a very attentive and minute survey of real life.
Page 75 - Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Page 376 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Page 77 - So morbid was his temperament that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Page 315 - Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a...