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It is much better to cover it with an extinguisher of honor , than let it consume , till
it burns blue , and lies agonising within the socket , and at length goes out in no
perfume . If the sun were not to rise again , methinks it would look bigger for him ...
It is much better to cover it with an extinguisher of honor , than let it consume , till
it burns blue , and lies agonising within the socket , and at length goes out in no
perfume . If the sun were not to rise again , methinks it would look bigger for him ...
Page 115
Thus , E ' en his failings lean ' d to virtue ' s side . Newington Green , July 21 ,
1781 . DEAR SIR , I THINK myself much honored by the favor of your Jetter ,
dated the 28th of February last , which I received about a month ago . I am made
very ...
Thus , E ' en his failings lean ' d to virtue ' s side . Newington Green , July 21 ,
1781 . DEAR SIR , I THINK myself much honored by the favor of your Jetter ,
dated the 28th of February last , which I received about a month ago . I am made
very ...
Page 155
Here every testimony of honor and gratitude was bestowed upon him . He was
elected an honorary member of the Royal academy of Ireland , and of the
society for the en couragement of arts and manufactures , and after he left the
country ...
Here every testimony of honor and gratitude was bestowed upon him . He was
elected an honorary member of the Royal academy of Ireland , and of the
society for the en couragement of arts and manufactures , and after he left the
country ...
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If I refused , I should have outraged a respectable body at the very moment , they
were heaping honors upon me . I hesitated then no longer ; I made my visits ; my
age had prevented any concurrence ; and to complete my happiness M . de ...
If I refused , I should have outraged a respectable body at the very moment , they
were heaping honors upon me . I hesitated then no longer ; I made my visits ; my
age had prevented any concurrence ; and to complete my happiness M . de ...
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Honor is a capricious idol , and accommodates himself to the pleasure and
convenience of his followers . " The diversity of opinion , entertained among the
moderns concerning this idol , is worthy of note . Every sect , profession , and
chan ...
Honor is a capricious idol , and accommodates himself to the pleasure and
convenience of his followers . " The diversity of opinion , entertained among the
moderns concerning this idol , is worthy of note . Every sect , profession , and
chan ...
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Page 91 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 91 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 93 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 78 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 92 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 93 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...
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| Title | The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2 |
| Contributor | Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard University) |
| Publisher | W. Hilliard., 1806 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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