The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 ページ |
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... my outward circumstances will admit it , I should gladly finish , and make it perhaps my last legacy to my fel- low men . In reading over these Essays , I find scarcely a thought that is my present thought , or which , at least , if I.
... my outward circumstances will admit it , I should gladly finish , and make it perhaps my last legacy to my fel- low men . In reading over these Essays , I find scarcely a thought that is my present thought , or which , at least , if I.
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... present edition are not consider- able . They are greatest in the concluding Essay , as my opinions in some respects on the subject of that Essay have sus- tained a material change ; and I was not willing to contribute , however ...
... present edition are not consider- able . They are greatest in the concluding Essay , as my opinions in some respects on the subject of that Essay have sus- tained a material change ; and I was not willing to contribute , however ...
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... present occasion . The author has always had a passion for collo- quial discussion ; and , in the various op- portunities that have been afforded him in different scenes of life , the result seemed fre- quently xii PREFACE .
... present occasion . The author has always had a passion for collo- quial discussion ; and , in the various op- portunities that have been afforded him in different scenes of life , the result seemed fre- quently xii PREFACE .
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... present volume are sufficiently obvious . They are presented to the contemplative reader , not as dicta , but as the materials of thinking . They are committed to his mercy . In themselves they are trivial ; the hints of en- quiry ...
... present volume are sufficiently obvious . They are presented to the contemplative reader , not as dicta , but as the materials of thinking . They are committed to his mercy . In themselves they are trivial ; the hints of en- quiry ...
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... present stage . With as ardent a passion for innovation as ever , he feels himself more patient and tran- quil . He is desirous of assisting others , if possible , in perfecting the melioration of their temper . There are many things ...
... present stage . With as ardent a passion for innovation as ever , he feels himself more patient and tran- quil . He is desirous of assisting others , if possible , in perfecting the melioration of their temper . There are many things ...
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376 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.
355 ページ - Memory and her siren 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...
356 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.
352 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...
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.
356 ページ - If therefore ye be loath to dishearten utterly and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
31 ページ - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
394 ページ - When Natural Religion has thus viewed both, ask her, which is the Prophet of God ? — But her answer we have already had, when she saw part of this scene, through the eyes of the centurion, who attended at the cross. By him she spoke, and said, 'Truly this man was the Son of God.
355 ページ - ... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.
367 ページ - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one, but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it is lost.