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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814

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132 ページ - Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the preeminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.
257 ページ - France : he said, he thought that was the best climate where he could be abroad in the air with pleasure, or at least without trouble and inconvenience, the most days of the year, and the most hours of the day ; and this, he thought, he could be in England, more than in any country he knew of in Europe.
119 ページ - Since they can only judge, that can confer. Behold! The reverend shade of Bartas stands Before my thought, and (in thy right) commands That to the world I publish, for him, this; Bartas doth wish thy English now were his.
120 ページ - Spenser sing Rosalind in pastoral: But authors, that themselves too much esteem, Lose their own genius, and mistake their theme; Thus in times past Dubartas vainly writ, Alloying sacred truth with trifling wit; Impertinently, and without delight, Described the Israelites triumphant flight; And, following Moses o'er the sandy plain, Perished with Pharaoh in the Arabian main.
152 ページ - Edgehill, when the enemy was routed, he was like to have incurred great peril, by interposing to save those who had thrown away their arms, and against whom, it may be, others were more fierce for their having thrown them away : so that a man might think, he came into the field chiefly out of curiosity to see the face of danger, and charity to prevent the shedding of blood.
160 ページ - The same Andromache, who with her needle painted the fall of the hero of her country, was not ashamed to feed and take care of the horses of that hero, when living. Besides the arts of weaving and embroidery, which were not unknown to the women in the patriarchal ages, the Grecian fair employed themselves in spinning, which they performed standing, and in every other branch of the manufacture of cloth ; a custom which continued...
134 ページ - ... he is to possess the insensibility of a stone ? How is it possible for human nature to endure so many repeated provocations ? or to bear calmly with such unreasonable behaviour ?" My brother ! if thou canst bear with no instances of unreasonable behaviour, withdraw thyself from the world.
134 ページ - And indeed the whole proceedings of the world are nothing but one continued scene of Folly, all the actors being equally fools and madmen ; and therefore if any be so pragmatically wise as to be singular, he must even turn a second Timon, or man-hater, and by retiring into some unfrequented desert, become a recluse from all mankind.
121 ページ - ... practisers whereof are no less envious and cruel, revengeful and bloody, than the Devil himself. And these accursed creatures having sold their souls to the Devil, work two ways ; either by the Devil immediately, or by the art of poisoning. The difference between necromancers and witches, his majesty hath excellently taught in a word ; that the one (in a sort) command, the other obey the Devil.
3 ページ - When removed from situations that are constantly covered with the sea, they open their shells, lose their water, and die in a few days. But when taken from similar situations, and laid down in places from which the sea occasionally retires, they feel the effect of the sun's rays, or of the cold air, or perhaps apprehend the attacks of enemies, and accordingly learn to keep their shells close till the tide returns.

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