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 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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Page 47
... equal value ? Are there not those delicate strokes of the pen , those happy turns of fancy and expression , which form the character of genius , and defy translation no less , than the masterly coloring of Raphael defies imitation ? But ...
... equal value ? Are there not those delicate strokes of the pen , those happy turns of fancy and expression , which form the character of genius , and defy translation no less , than the masterly coloring of Raphael defies imitation ? But ...
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... equal- ly formed to terrify vice , when he chose to assume the char- acter of the moralist ; or to delight the fancy , when he in- clined to sport with the fictions of poetry . With the same pen he could give " confidence to virtue and ...
... equal- ly formed to terrify vice , when he chose to assume the char- acter of the moralist ; or to delight the fancy , when he in- clined to sport with the fictions of poetry . With the same pen he could give " confidence to virtue and ...
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... equal to the moral ex- cellence of this material , inanimate , unconscious object . This Godwin frankly admits , and attributes virtue as readily to a knife and a candlestick , as to man . 2. If virtue consist in utility , it may be ...
... equal to the moral ex- cellence of this material , inanimate , unconscious object . This Godwin frankly admits , and attributes virtue as readily to a knife and a candlestick , as to man . 2. If virtue consist in utility , it may be ...
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... equal . That friendly intercourse , a conciliating tem- per , and mutual accommodation are duties , imposed by the great Author of our religion ; and that " a contrary spirit " would dissolve all religious institutions together with pri ...
... equal . That friendly intercourse , a conciliating tem- per , and mutual accommodation are duties , imposed by the great Author of our religion ; and that " a contrary spirit " would dissolve all religious institutions together with pri ...
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... equal- ly easy , and who is never delayed by doubts of the fitness of things to produce the intended effect . Among the theorists Dr. Burnet supposed the body of our planet to have been originally water , and Mr. Whiston ad- mitted ...
... equal- ly easy , and who is never delayed by doubts of the fitness of things to produce the intended effect . Among the theorists Dr. Burnet supposed the body of our planet to have been originally water , and Mr. Whiston ad- mitted ...
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Page 89 - 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 89 - 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 91 - 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 76 - 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 90 - 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 91 - 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...