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Page ix
... common talents . But now the unequalled simplicity of Plutarch , the sense and spirit + of Johnson , and the discriminating taste of Mason , are lost in the disgusting modern language of affectation and the cant of sensibility . The ...
... common talents . But now the unequalled simplicity of Plutarch , the sense and spirit + of Johnson , and the discriminating taste of Mason , are lost in the disgusting modern language of affectation and the cant of sensibility . The ...
Page x
... common to many of the greatest geniuses of the day , literary or political , from existing circumstances . I told him , I believed I was not without fire in the ardour of composing and connecting ; though I modestly excepted myself ...
... common to many of the greatest geniuses of the day , literary or political , from existing circumstances . I told him , I believed I was not without fire in the ardour of composing and connecting ; though I modestly excepted myself ...
Page xii
... common cause . Siç Drancis dicta refellam . But we should all remember , that in an empire exten sive , opulent , luxurious , and commercial like Great Bri- tain , many new regulations and new ordinances founded on constitutional ...
... common cause . Siç Drancis dicta refellam . But we should all remember , that in an empire exten sive , opulent , luxurious , and commercial like Great Bri- tain , many new regulations and new ordinances founded on constitutional ...
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... common feelings and passions of our nature , ( this it seems , is declamation ; ) no scenes of terror , and cruelty , and desolation are to be laid before them , but dry reasoning and mathematical calculations of the quantum of misery ...
... common feelings and passions of our nature , ( this it seems , is declamation ; ) no scenes of terror , and cruelty , and desolation are to be laid before them , but dry reasoning and mathematical calculations of the quantum of misery ...
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... common with the wise and the reflecting , that the consti- tution of Great Britain , even with it's real or apparent defects , is worthy of continuance , and I hope of perpe- tuity . Our ancestors in 1688 once adopted the words of the ...
... common with the wise and the reflecting , that the consti- tution of Great Britain , even with it's real or apparent defects , is worthy of continuance , and I hope of perpe- tuity . Our ancestors in 1688 once adopted the words of the ...
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Page 191 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 451 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Page xx - I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery.
Page 242 - We no longer look exclusively for learned authors in the usual place, in the retreats of academic erudition and in the seats of religion. Our peasantry now read the Rights of Man on mountains and moors and by the way side; and shepherds make the analogy between their occupation and that of their governors.
Page 228 - But culm in project, and in mercy mild ; Where'er his wisdom guided, none withstood, Content with peace and practicable good ; Round him the labourers throng, the nobles wait, Friend of the poor, and guardian of the state." The pall of smoke which habitually hung over London, " covering all its prominent edifices with a dingy and sooty mantle," curiously and anxiously interested him.
Page 451 - Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Page 405 - Critics I saw, that other names deface, And fix their own, with labour, in their place : Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd, Or disappear'd. and left the first behind. Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone, But felt th...
Page 169 - First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced, Shedding sweet influence.
Page 451 - This relation will not be wholly without its use, if those, who languish under any part of his sufferings, shall be enabled to fortify their patience, by reflecting that they feel only those afflictions from which the abilities of Savage did not exempt him; or...
Page 254 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah : for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.