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Pagina 16
... greater than that of any other vulgar . This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of in- telligence , which are continually trickling among us , which every one may catch , and of which every one partakes . This universal ...
... greater than that of any other vulgar . This superiority we undoubtedly owe to the rivulets of in- telligence , which are continually trickling among us , which every one may catch , and of which every one partakes . This universal ...
Pagina 33
... greater number solicitation is its own reward . To be seen in good company , to talk of familiarities with men of power , to be able to tell the freshest news , to gratify an inferior circle with predictions of increase or decline of ...
... greater number solicitation is its own reward . To be seen in good company , to talk of familiarities with men of power , to be able to tell the freshest news , to gratify an inferior circle with predictions of increase or decline of ...
Pagina 36
... greater misfortune can happen to a plain hard - working tradesman , as I am , than to be joined to such a woman , who is rather a clog than an help - mate to him . I am , sir . Your humble servant , ZACHARY TREACLE . No. 16. SATURDAY ...
... greater misfortune can happen to a plain hard - working tradesman , as I am , than to be joined to such a woman , who is rather a clog than an help - mate to him . I am , sir . Your humble servant , ZACHARY TREACLE . No. 16. SATURDAY ...
Pagina 40
... greater part of mankind are counterfeit . Very few carry their philosophy to places of diversion , or are very careful to analyse their enjoyments . 41 The general condition of life is so full of 40 No. 18 . THE IDLER . Happiness.
... greater part of mankind are counterfeit . Very few carry their philosophy to places of diversion , or are very careful to analyse their enjoyments . 41 The general condition of life is so full of 40 No. 18 . THE IDLER . Happiness.
Pagina 48
... greater part are content with sleep and lace , and counterfeit an ardour which they do not feel ; but those who desire it most are neither prompted by malevo- lence nor patriotism ; they neither pant for laurels , nor de- light in blood ...
... greater part are content with sleep and lace , and counterfeit an ardour which they do not feel ; but those who desire it most are neither prompted by malevo- lence nor patriotism ; they neither pant for laurels , nor de- light in blood ...
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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.