The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 ページ |
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... sort of ignis fatuus leading us astray ; a fever of the mind incompatible with the sober dictates of prudence . They tempt a man to the perpetration of bold , bad deeds ; and qualify him rather to excite the admiration , than promote ...
... sort of ignis fatuus leading us astray ; a fever of the mind incompatible with the sober dictates of prudence . They tempt a man to the perpetration of bold , bad deeds ; and qualify him rather to excite the admiration , than promote ...
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... . Incidents of a certain sort in early in- fancy will produce them ; nay , may create them in a great degree , even at a more advanced period . ' If nothing occur to excite the mind , it ESSAY III . ] OF THE SOURCES OF GENIUS . 11.
... . Incidents of a certain sort in early in- fancy will produce them ; nay , may create them in a great degree , even at a more advanced period . ' If nothing occur to excite the mind , it ESSAY III . ] OF THE SOURCES OF GENIUS . 11.
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... sort , That the accidents of body and mind should regularly descend from father to son , is a thing that daily occurs , yet is little in correspondence . with the systems of our philosophers . How small a share , accurately speaking ...
... sort , That the accidents of body and mind should regularly descend from father to son , is a thing that daily occurs , yet is little in correspondence . with the systems of our philosophers . How small a share , accurately speaking ...
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... sort of intellectual camelion , assuming the colour of the substances on which I rest . He that revels in a well - chosen library , has innumerable dishes , and all of admir- able flavour . His taste is rendered so acute , as easily to ...
... sort of intellectual camelion , assuming the colour of the substances on which I rest . He that revels in a well - chosen library , has innumerable dishes , and all of admir- able flavour . His taste is rendered so acute , as easily to ...
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... sort of blasphemy ; classical learning was regarded as the first of all literary accomplishments . But in the present day inqui- sitive and active spirits are little inclined to take any thing upon trust ; prescription is not admitted ...
... sort of blasphemy ; classical learning was regarded as the first of all literary accomplishments . But in the present day inqui- sitive and active spirits are little inclined to take any thing upon trust ; prescription is not admitted ...
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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.