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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... reason why the Grecians excelled the Romans . in compositions . In England the revival of letters was co- eval with the introduction of printing . Our authors had but little encouragement either by public , or private liberali❤ ty . A ...
... reason why the Grecians excelled the Romans . in compositions . In England the revival of letters was co- eval with the introduction of printing . Our authors had but little encouragement either by public , or private liberali❤ ty . A ...
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... reason . So that now he ventures to acquaint them with the secret of their privileges ; that the people are the original of power ; that government is always conveyed with an implication of trust and reservation ; that governors are ...
... reason . So that now he ventures to acquaint them with the secret of their privileges ; that the people are the original of power ; that government is always conveyed with an implication of trust and reservation ; that governors are ...
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... reasons not to turn our backs upon life out of an humor . The very uneasiness of taking leave is a fair ex- cuse to stay , when it may be done handsomely ; for nobody is bound to put himself to pain to no purpose . Now it is odds but ...
... reasons not to turn our backs upon life out of an humor . The very uneasiness of taking leave is a fair ex- cuse to stay , when it may be done handsomely ; for nobody is bound to put himself to pain to no purpose . Now it is odds but ...
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... reason , and may be pleaded to advantage in the other world ; when a man is called upon to offer up himself to his conscience , and to re- sign to justice and truth ; in such a case one would think , he should be so far from avoiding ...
... reason , and may be pleaded to advantage in the other world ; when a man is called upon to offer up himself to his conscience , and to re- sign to justice and truth ; in such a case one would think , he should be so far from avoiding ...
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... reason- ing clear , forcible , and connected . The style is suited to the nature of the discourse . It is simple , pure , and correct ; and with these properties must be respected by those , who seek for truth rather , than amusement ...
... reason- ing clear , forcible , and connected . The style is suited to the nature of the discourse . It is simple , pure , and correct ; and with these properties must be respected by those , who seek for truth rather , than amusement ...
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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...