Elegant Extracts: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in ProseVicesimus Knox C. and J. Rivington, 1824 - 772 pagine |
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Pagina 30
... nature ; it does not throw the mind into a condition impro- per for the present state of humanity , and is very conspicuous in the charac- ters of those who are looked upon as the greatest philosophers among the heathens , as well as ...
... nature ; it does not throw the mind into a condition impro- per for the present state of humanity , and is very conspicuous in the charac- ters of those who are looked upon as the greatest philosophers among the heathens , as well as ...
Pagina 31
... nature in the prospect of non - ex- istence , that I cannot but wonder , with many excellent writers , how it is possi- ble for a man to outlive the expectation of it . For my own part , I think the be- ing of a God is so little to be ...
... nature in the prospect of non - ex- istence , that I cannot but wonder , with many excellent writers , how it is possi- ble for a man to outlive the expectation of it . For my own part , I think the be- ing of a God is so little to be ...
Pagina 33
... nature , and which , by a right improvement of them , will produce a satiety of joy , and an uninterrupted happiness . We may further observe how Provi - hang and drown themselves , a dis- dence has taken care to keep up this consolate ...
... nature , and which , by a right improvement of them , will produce a satiety of joy , and an uninterrupted happiness . We may further observe how Provi - hang and drown themselves , a dis- dence has taken care to keep up this consolate ...
Pagina 36
... nature : and such we may esteem all those in which multi- tudes of men dissent from us , who are as good and wise as ourselves . We should always act with great cautiousness and circumspection , in points where it is not impossible that ...
... nature : and such we may esteem all those in which multi- tudes of men dissent from us , who are as good and wise as ourselves . We should always act with great cautiousness and circumspection , in points where it is not impossible that ...
Pagina 42
... nature is as yet pliant and soft . Habits have not established their dominion . Prejudices have not preoccupied your understanding . The world has not had time to contract and debase affections . All your powers are more vigorous ...
... nature is as yet pliant and soft . Habits have not established their dominion . Prejudices have not preoccupied your understanding . The world has not had time to contract and debase affections . All your powers are more vigorous ...
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Brani popolari
Pagina 13 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Pagina 388 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Pagina 342 - ... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Pagina 411 - German despot; your attempts will be for ever vain and impotent - — doubly so, indeed, from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your adversaries, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms: Never, never, never...
Pagina 338 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
Pagina 2 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it ; and upon...
Pagina 159 - Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and ye visited me, I was in prison and ye came unto me.
Pagina 412 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Pagina 411 - I CANNOT, my Lords, I will not, join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my Lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment. It is not a time for adulation: the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth. We must, if possible, dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it ; and display, in its full danger and genuine colors, the ruin which is brought to our doors.
Pagina 3 - ... falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. 'The islands...