The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 ページ |
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... means to virtue ; it is also directly a means to happiness . The man of enlightened understanding and per- severing ardour , has many sources of enjoyment which the ignorant man cannot reach ; and it may at least be suspected that these ...
... means to virtue ; it is also directly a means to happiness . The man of enlightened understanding and per- severing ardour , has many sources of enjoyment which the ignorant man cannot reach ; and it may at least be suspected that these ...
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... means of attainment are clearly and skilfully pointed out , where yet the accomplishment remains finally un- attained ? Give but sufficient motive , and you have given every thing . Whether the object be to shoot at a mark , or to ...
... means of attainment are clearly and skilfully pointed out , where yet the accomplishment remains finally un- attained ? Give but sufficient motive , and you have given every thing . Whether the object be to shoot at a mark , or to ...
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... means of plea- sure or enjoyment , and added discernment to se- lect those means . It must probably be partial , not extensive , in- formation , that is calculated to lead us astray . The twilight of knowledge bewilders , and infuses a ...
... means of plea- sure or enjoyment , and added discernment to se- lect those means . It must probably be partial , not extensive , in- formation , that is calculated to lead us astray . The twilight of knowledge bewilders , and infuses a ...
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... means obvious . That some differences are born with children , cannot reasonably be denied . But to what do these differences amount ? Look at a new - born infant . How unformed and plastic is his body ; how simple the features of his ...
... means obvious . That some differences are born with children , cannot reasonably be denied . But to what do these differences amount ? Look at a new - born infant . How unformed and plastic is his body ; how simple the features of his ...
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... means follows from hence , that it is the produce of education , or ever was the work of the preceptor . Thousands of impressions are made upon us , for one that is designedly produced . The child receives twenty ideas per diem perhaps ...
... means follows from hence , that it is the produce of education , or ever was the work of the preceptor . Thousands of impressions are made upon us , for one that is designedly produced . The child receives twenty ideas per diem perhaps ...
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352 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 aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
374 ページ - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
353 ページ - 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...
354 ページ - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as 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.
91 ページ - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
373 ページ - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
339 ページ - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
351 ページ - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose, a mortal thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit, to venture and divulge unusual things of myself, I shall petition to the gentler sort, it may not be envy to me.
339 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...
144 ページ - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.