The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of EssaysG.G. and J. Robinson, 1797 - 481 ページ |
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... some adverse gale should hurry , the adventurer a thousand miles athwart into the chaos of laborious flavery , removing him from the genial influence of a tranquil leifure , or transporting him to a dreary climate where the half ...
... some adverse gale should hurry , the adventurer a thousand miles athwart into the chaos of laborious flavery , removing him from the genial influence of a tranquil leifure , or transporting him to a dreary climate where the half ...
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... Some of the most valuable remains of antiquity now in our poffeffion , were upon the point of being utterly loft . Kings and princes confidered their reco- very as the most important task in which they could be engaged ; fcholars ...
... Some of the most valuable remains of antiquity now in our poffeffion , were upon the point of being utterly loft . Kings and princes confidered their reco- very as the most important task in which they could be engaged ; fcholars ...
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... some distant period or the materials of which they are compounded , but with the meaning that properly belongs to them according to the pureft standard of the language he uses . Words are perpetually fluc- tuating in this respect . The ...
... some distant period or the materials of which they are compounded , but with the meaning that properly belongs to them according to the pureft standard of the language he uses . Words are perpetually fluc- tuating in this respect . The ...
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... Some refinement of mind and fome clear- nefs of thinking will almost infallibly result from grammatical studies . Though the language it- felf fhould ever after be neglected , fome portion of a general science has thus been acquired ...
... Some refinement of mind and fome clear- nefs of thinking will almost infallibly result from grammatical studies . Though the language it- felf fhould ever after be neglected , fome portion of a general science has thus been acquired ...
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... some respects to aggravate the misery of occafional control . Deluded with the phan- tom of independence , he feels with double bit- ternefs that he is only bound in fetters of gold . Pain is always more vividly remembered than pleasure ...
... some respects to aggravate the misery of occafional control . Deluded with the phan- tom of independence , he feels with double bit- ternefs that he is only bound in fetters of gold . Pain is always more vividly remembered than pleasure ...
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394 ページ - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
297 ページ - These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his counsel.
417 ページ - ... childish peevishness, if we undervalue the advantages of our knowledge, and neglect to improve it to the ends for which it was given us, because there are some things that are set out of the reach of it.
410 ページ - Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one, but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it is lost.
246 ページ - To help me thro' this long disease, my Life, To second, Arbuthnot! thy Art and Care, And teach, the Being you preserv'd, to bear. But why then publish? Granville the polite, And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write; Well-natur'd Garth inflam'd with early praise, And Congreve lov'd, and Swift endur'd my lays; The courtly Talbot, Somers, Sheffield read, Ev'n mitred Rochester would nod the head, And St.
396 ページ - ... not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit, that can be put upon him.
393 ページ - But much latelier in the private academies of Italy, whither I was favoured to resort, perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory, composed at under twenty or thereabout...
393 ページ - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
407 ページ - The dialect of conversation is now-adays so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
372 ページ - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...