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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... person ! A stranger ! A protestant ! I believe it is the first instance of the kind , that ever happened ; and I dare venture to affirm , that no proof could well be stronger , than this , that the measures , " adopted for making these ...
... person ! A stranger ! A protestant ! I believe it is the first instance of the kind , that ever happened ; and I dare venture to affirm , that no proof could well be stronger , than this , that the measures , " adopted for making these ...
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... persons receive , who are supposed to possess it , however negligent in their studies , however vi- cious their characters .. As genius is therefore so popular an endowment , no wonder , that even its imaginary possession is so highly ...
... persons receive , who are supposed to possess it , however negligent in their studies , however vi- cious their characters .. As genius is therefore so popular an endowment , no wonder , that even its imaginary possession is so highly ...
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... person of discre- tion will take care not to embarrass his life , nor expose him- self to calumny , nor let his conscience grow too strong for his interest upon any account . To speak generally , a popular man always swims down the ...
... person of discre- tion will take care not to embarrass his life , nor expose him- self to calumny , nor let his conscience grow too strong for his interest upon any account . To speak generally , a popular man always swims down the ...
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... person recover , the hatred will be much greater , than the affection . The truth is , if there were no foul play used , or the ar- tifice undiscovered , there would not be much to brag of ; for an universal applause is seldom little ...
... person recover , the hatred will be much greater , than the affection . The truth is , if there were no foul play used , or the ar- tifice undiscovered , there would not be much to brag of ; for an universal applause is seldom little ...
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... persons , equally entitled to credit . « Who then shall decide for all , which of the variety of creeds all ought unitedly to receive ? To whom has the maker of us all given that marked preeminence , that he appears commissioned to ...
... persons , equally entitled to credit . « Who then shall decide for all , which of the variety of creeds all ought unitedly to receive ? To whom has the maker of us all given that marked preeminence , that he appears commissioned to ...
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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...