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... commonly into jealousy and discord . Idlers are always found to associate in peace ; and he who is most famed for doing nothing , is glad to meet another as idle as himself . What is to be expected from this paper , whether it will be ...
... commonly into jealousy and discord . Idlers are always found to associate in peace ; and he who is most famed for doing nothing , is glad to meet another as idle as himself . What is to be expected from this paper , whether it will be ...
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... commonly follows ill - placed expectations , they are to lay the blame only on themselves . Yet hope is not wholly to be cast away . The idler , though sluggish , is yet alive , and may sometimes be stimulated to vigour and activity ...
... commonly follows ill - placed expectations , they are to lay the blame only on themselves . Yet hope is not wholly to be cast away . The idler , though sluggish , is yet alive , and may sometimes be stimulated to vigour and activity ...
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... commonly observed , that when two Englishmen meet , their first talk is of the weather ; they are in haste to tell each other , what each must already know , that it is hot or cold , bright or cloudy , windy or calm . There are among ...
... commonly observed , that when two Englishmen meet , their first talk is of the weather ; they are in haste to tell each other , what each must already know , that it is hot or cold , bright or cloudy , windy or calm . There are among ...
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... commonly make peace at the expense of the arbitrator ; yet I will venture to lay before you a controversy , by which the quiet of my house has been long disturbed , and which , un- less you can decide it , is likely to produce lasting ...
... commonly make peace at the expense of the arbitrator ; yet I will venture to lay before you a controversy , by which the quiet of my house has been long disturbed , and which , un- less you can decide it , is likely to produce lasting ...
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... commonly too ill to dress herself to go to church , she therefore never gets up till noon ; and , what is still more vexatious , keeps me in bed with her , when I ought to be bu- sily engaged in better employment . It is well if she can ...
... commonly too ill to dress herself to go to church , she therefore never gets up till noon ; and , what is still more vexatious , keeps me in bed with her , when I ought to be bu- sily engaged in better employment . It is well if she can ...
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Pagina 477 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Pagina 190 - The Italian attends only to the invariable, the great and general ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal Nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of Nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Pagina 477 - ... dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.
Pagina 405 - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.
Pagina 141 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : — When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Pagina 311 - It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced. Those that hear of it at a distance or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph. Some indeed must perish in the most successful field, but they die upon the bed of honour, resign their lives amidst the joys of conquest, and filled with England's glory, smile in death.
Pagina 180 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us, Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter And intimates eternity to man.
Pagina 183 - Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot, " Dick Misty is a man of deep research, and forcible penetration.
Pagina 209 - Neither the judges of our laws, nor the representatives of our people,, would be much affected by laboured gesticulations, or believe any man the more because he rolled his eyes, or puffed his cheeks, or spread abroad his arms, or stamped the ground, or thumped his breast; or turned his eyes sometimes to the ceiling, and sometimes to the floor.
Pagina 274 - ... no mortal can tell why, or how. Thus, after having clambered, with great labour, from one step of argumentation to another, instead of rising into the light of knowledge, we are devolved back into dark ignorance ; and all our effort ends in belief, that for the evils of life there is some good reason, and in confession, that the reason cannot be found.