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... pains upon them ; he has himself to please as well as them , and has long learned , or endeavoured to learn , not to make the pleasure of others too neces- sary to his own . N ° 4. SATURDAY , MAY 6 , 1758 . 10 N ° 3 . IDLER . Political ...
... pains upon them ; he has himself to please as well as them , and has long learned , or endeavoured to learn , not to make the pleasure of others too neces- sary to his own . N ° 4. SATURDAY , MAY 6 , 1758 . 10 N ° 3 . IDLER . Political ...
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... by some reasoners , on whom the name of philosophers has been too easily conferred , resolved into an affection merely selfish , an involun- tary perception of pain at the involuntary sight of a N® 4 . 11 IDLER . Discourses on the weather.
... by some reasoners , on whom the name of philosophers has been too easily conferred , resolved into an affection merely selfish , an involun- tary perception of pain at the involuntary sight of a N® 4 . 11 IDLER . Discourses on the weather.
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Lionel Thomas Berguer. tary perception of pain at the involuntary sight of a being like ourselves languishing in misery . But this sensation , if ever it be felt at all from the brute in- stinct of uninstructed nature , will only produce ...
Lionel Thomas Berguer. tary perception of pain at the involuntary sight of a being like ourselves languishing in misery . But this sensation , if ever it be felt at all from the brute in- stinct of uninstructed nature , will only produce ...
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... painful ; whether it be not wor- thy of a good man's care to restore those to ease and usefulness , from whose labour infants and women expect their bread , and who , by a casual hurt , or lingering disease , lie pining in want and ...
... painful ; whether it be not wor- thy of a good man's care to restore those to ease and usefulness , from whose labour infants and women expect their bread , and who , by a casual hurt , or lingering disease , lie pining in want and ...
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... pain of death they be forbidden to strike . 6 By this method our army will soon be brought to look an enemy in the face . But it has been lately observed , that fear is received by the ear as well as the eyes ; and the Indian war - cry ...
... pain of death they be forbidden to strike . 6 By this method our army will soon be brought to look an enemy in the face . But it has been lately observed , that fear is received by the ear as well as the eyes ; and the Indian war - cry ...
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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.