The Mirror: A Periodical Paper, Pub. at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, 第 2 巻W. Creech, Edinburgh, and W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, 1781 |
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... objects and to Home , 62. Of romancing in converfation ; anec dotes of a French company ; in a let- ter from EUTRAPELUS , - 63. Of private and domeftic virtues ; cha racter of Mifs Hargrave , 64. Of Good - company ; in a letter from ...
... objects and to Home , 62. Of romancing in converfation ; anec dotes of a French company ; in a let- ter from EUTRAPELUS , - 63. Of private and domeftic virtues ; cha racter of Mifs Hargrave , 64. Of Good - company ; in a letter from ...
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... objects of our wishes , and the feelings confequent upon their actual attainment , has furnished to moft mo- ralifts a text for declaiming on the vanity of human purfuits , the folly of covetoufacfs , the madness of ambition , and the ...
... objects of our wishes , and the feelings confequent upon their actual attainment , has furnished to moft mo- ralifts a text for declaiming on the vanity of human purfuits , the folly of covetoufacfs , the madness of ambition , and the ...
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... object of our wishes , or to change our condition , is not to increase our happiness , we feel , at the fame time , that the purfuit of this object , and the expecta- tion of this change , can increase it in a very fenfible degree . It ...
... object of our wishes , or to change our condition , is not to increase our happiness , we feel , at the fame time , that the purfuit of this object , and the expecta- tion of this change , can increase it in a very fenfible degree . It ...
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... object of his moft earnest defires has given him far lefs pleasure than was promifed by a distant view of it , he is confoled by re- flecting that the expectation of this object has , perhaps , brightened many years of his life ...
... object of his moft earnest defires has given him far lefs pleasure than was promifed by a distant view of it , he is confoled by re- flecting that the expectation of this object has , perhaps , brightened many years of his life ...
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... objects for the feverest lafh of fatire , and that they fhould frequently be held up to public view , that , if the guilty can- not be reclaimed , the wavering may be con- firmed , and the innocent warned to avoid the danger . But it is ...
... objects for the feverest lafh of fatire , and that they fhould frequently be held up to public view , that , if the guilty can- not be reclaimed , the wavering may be con- firmed , and the innocent warned to avoid the danger . But it is ...
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138 ページ - And he gave it for his opinion, " That whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
317 ページ - ... into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
48 ページ - s hand) ; but when I look on this renovated being as the gift of the Almighty, I feel a far different sentiment; my heart dilates with gratitude and love to him ; it is prepared for doing his will, not as a duty, but as a pleasure; and regards every breach of it, not with disapprobation, but with horror." " You say right, my dear sir...
65 ページ - You behold the mourner of his only child, the last earthly stay and blessing of his declining years! Such a child too! - It becomes not me to speak of her virtues; yet it is but gratitude to mention them, because they were exerted towards myself. Not many days ago you saw her young, beautiful, virtuous, and happy; ye who are parents will judge of my felicity then, - ye will judge of my affliction now.
43 ページ - ... some distant country, and that the father had been suddenly seized in the night with a dangerous disorder, which the people of the inn where they lodged feared would prove mortal; that...
51 ページ - He found in them the guileless manner of the earliest times, with the culture and accomplishment of the most refined ones. Every better feeling warm and vivid ; every ungentle one repressed or overcome. He was not addicted to love ; but he felt himself happy in being the friend of Mademoiselle La...
66 ページ - The inspiration of the pulpit was past; at sight of him the scenes they had last met in, rushed again on his mind; La Roche threw his arms round his neck, and watered it with his tears. The other was equally affected; they went together, in silence, into the parlour, where the evening service was wont to be performed.
52 ページ - The honest folks were awkward but sincere in their professions of regard. They made some attempts at condolence ; it was too delicate for their handling, but La Roche took it in good part.
61 ページ - Not that he was ever a lover of the lady's; but he thought her one of the most amiable women he had seen, and there was something in the idea of her being another's for ever, that struck him, he knew not why, like a disappointment.
59 ページ - About three years after our philosopher was on a visit at Geneva: the promise he made to La Roche and his daughter, on his former visit, was recalled to his mind by the view of that range of mountains, on a part of which they had often looked together. There was a reproach, too, conveyed along with the recollection for his having failed to write to either for several months past.