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... never much ambitioned eccle- siastical emoluments or honours . In 1785 , he succeeded Sir WILLIAM SCOTT , brother to the present Lord Chancellor , in the place of Cam- den - Professor of History at Oxford ; but he had scarcely delivered ...
... never much ambitioned eccle- siastical emoluments or honours . In 1785 , he succeeded Sir WILLIAM SCOTT , brother to the present Lord Chancellor , in the place of Cam- den - Professor of History at Oxford ; but he had scarcely delivered ...
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... never laughed . Perhaps man may be more properly distinguished as an idle animal ; for there is no man who is not sometimes idle . It is at least a definition from which none that shall find it in this paper can be excepted ; for who ...
... never laughed . Perhaps man may be more properly distinguished as an idle animal ; for there is no man who is not sometimes idle . It is at least a definition from which none that shall find it in this paper can be excepted ; for who ...
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... never settle into a principle of action , or extend relief to calami- ties unseen , in generations not yet in being . The devotion of life or fortune to the succour of the poor , is a height of virtue to which humanity has never risen ...
... never settle into a principle of action , or extend relief to calami- ties unseen , in generations not yet in being . The devotion of life or fortune to the succour of the poor , is a height of virtue to which humanity has never risen ...
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... never saw their enemies , and perhaps were defeated by women . If our Ame- rican general had headed an army of girls , he might still have built a fort and taken it . Had Minorca been defended by a female garrison , it might have been ...
... never saw their enemies , and perhaps were defeated by women . If our Ame- rican general had headed an army of girls , he might still have built a fort and taken it . Had Minorca been defended by a female garrison , it might have been ...
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... never great numbers in any nation , whose reason or invention can find employment for their tongues , who can raise a pleasing discourse from their own stock of sentiments and images ; and those few who have qualified themselves by ...
... never great numbers in any nation , whose reason or invention can find employment for their tongues , who can raise a pleasing discourse from their own stock of sentiments and images ; and those few who have qualified themselves by ...
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admired amusement appear art of memory authors Bassora beauty censure common commonly considered critic curiosity danger delight desire diligence dreaded Drugget easily easy elegance endeavour enemies English equal evil expected eyes favour fortune friends genius give gout hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler Iliad imagination innu inquiry JOSEPH WARTON knowledge labour lady Lapland learned lence less live look Louisbourg mankind marriage memory ment mind Minorca misery morning nation nature necessary neral ness never Newmarket night observed once opinion pain passed passions perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure poetry praise produce quired racters readers reason resolved ressentie rich SATURDAY seldom shew sometimes soon Sophron suffered suppose sure talk tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought tion told truth uncon virtue vulture weary wife wish wonder write XXXIII
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Side 258 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Side 268 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Side 254 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 254 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 327 - Young man," said Omar," it is of little use to form plans of life. When I took my first survey of the world, in my twentieth year, having considered the various conditions of mankind, in the hour of solitude I said thus to myself, leaning against a cedar, which spread its branches over my head : " Seventy years are allowed to man ; I have yet fifty remaining.
Side 328 - The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design. I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within.
Side ii - Many of these excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter. Mr. Langton remembers Johnson, when on a visit at Oxford', asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour, he exclaimed,
Side 251 - ... middle to have been on higher ground, or the figures at the extremities stooping or lying, which would not only have formed the group into the shape of a pyramid, but likewise contrasted the standing figures. Indeed...
Side 55 - To be idle and to be poor, have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Side 269 - I answer, that, in consequence of having seen many, the power is acquired, even without seeking after it, of distinguishing between accidental blemishes and excrescences which are continually varying the surface of Nature's works, and the invariable general form which Nature most frequently produces, and always seems to intend in her productions.