Winter Evenings, Or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, 第 2 巻John Ronalds, 1805 |
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... supposed desirous of dif- fusing the influence of their example and authority , ra- ther than of seeking the applause of the world , and the reputation of generosity . Of the various hospitals which surround the great city , and form a ...
... supposed desirous of dif- fusing the influence of their example and authority , ra- ther than of seeking the applause of the world , and the reputation of generosity . Of the various hospitals which surround the great city , and form a ...
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... supposed better acquainted with such subjects than the moderns , the mind is pleased with the propriety of introducing them as the interlocutors . But while the matter is good , it is not right to cavil at trifles which are no more than ...
... supposed better acquainted with such subjects than the moderns , the mind is pleased with the propriety of introducing them as the interlocutors . But while the matter is good , it is not right to cavil at trifles which are no more than ...
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... supposed by his mother , he was the very best scholar in his class , and had already written one or two pretty copies of Latin verses in the style of Tibullus . As I am as fond of making experiments in morals , as a natural philosopher ...
... supposed by his mother , he was the very best scholar in his class , and had already written one or two pretty copies of Latin verses in the style of Tibullus . As I am as fond of making experiments in morals , as a natural philosopher ...
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... supposed to have the best parts who talk most . Excessive garrulity is certainly incompatible with solid thinking , and a mark of that volatile and superficial turn , which , dwelling upon the surfaces of things , never penetrates ...
... supposed to have the best parts who talk most . Excessive garrulity is certainly incompatible with solid thinking , and a mark of that volatile and superficial turn , which , dwelling upon the surfaces of things , never penetrates ...
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... supposed to be dull of appre- hension , and unfit for any thing else . Nothing is more common , in some places , than to see clergymen devoting the greatest part of their time to hounds and horses , dressing in the extremity of the ...
... supposed to be dull of appre- hension , and unfit for any thing else . Nothing is more common , in some places , than to see clergymen devoting the greatest part of their time to hounds and horses , dressing in the extremity of the ...
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209 ページ - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
209 ページ - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
208 ページ - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom : but they could not. Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel : and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.
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131 ページ - All the Books of the Bible are either already most admirable, and exalted pieces of Poesie, or are the best Materials in the world for it. Yet, though they be in themselves so proper to be made use of for this purpose ; None but a good Artist will know how to do it : neither must we think to cut and polish Diamonds with so little pains and skill as we do Marble. For if any man design to compose a Sacred Poem, by only turning a story of the Scripture, like Mr. Quarles's, or some other godly matter,...
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273 ページ - For pride is the beginning of sin, and he that hath it shall pour out abomination: and therefore the Lord brought upon them strange calamities, and overthrew them utterly.
128 ページ - A man that useth much swearing shall be filled with iniquity, And the plague shall never depart from his house...
132 ページ - The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition ; and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.