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... observe the humours of the place in safety from the shore ; sensible that ice was at best precarious , and having been always a little cowardly in my sleep . Several of my acquaintance seemed much more hardy than I , and went over the ...
... observe the humours of the place in safety from the shore ; sensible that ice was at best precarious , and having been always a little cowardly in my sleep . Several of my acquaintance seemed much more hardy than I , and went over the ...
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... observation , is often happy if he has time to escape from being crushed to pieces . The houses borrow very few ornaments from architecture ; their chief decoration seems to be a paltry piece of painting hung out at their doors or ...
... observation , is often happy if he has time to escape from being crushed to pieces . The houses borrow very few ornaments from architecture ; their chief decoration seems to be a paltry piece of painting hung out at their doors or ...
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... observed only by those for whom one is more than sufficient , or by such as have not money to buy two . As for the rest , they violate it publicly , and some glory in its violation . They seem to think , like the Persians , that they ...
... observed only by those for whom one is more than sufficient , or by such as have not money to buy two . As for the rest , they violate it publicly , and some glory in its violation . They seem to think , like the Persians , that they ...
Side 37
... observe a whole country adoring a divinity through fear , and attempting to feed the dead . These are their most serious and most religious occupations ; are these men rational , or are not the apes of Borneo more wise ? Certain I am ...
... observe a whole country adoring a divinity through fear , and attempting to feed the dead . These are their most serious and most religious occupations ; are these men rational , or are not the apes of Borneo more wise ? Certain I am ...
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... not our knowledge only , but our virtues are im- proved by luxury . Observe the brown savage of Thibet , to whom the fruits of the spreading pomegranate supply food , and its branches an habitation . Such a BENEFITS OF LUXURY . 39.
... not our knowledge only , but our virtues are im- proved by luxury . Observe the brown savage of Thibet , to whom the fruits of the spreading pomegranate supply food , and its branches an habitation . Such a BENEFITS OF LUXURY . 39.
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a variety of ..., Volum 2 Oliver Goldsmith Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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Side 230 - In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! How the style refines Before his sacred name flies...
Side 98 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Side 258 - Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live : With sweeter notes each rising temple rung; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung."—Pope.] LETTER LXIV.
Side 457 - Now lost to all, her friends, her virtue fled Near her betrayer's door she lays her head,' And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Side 257 - The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most illustrious in the world. After a painful ascent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle ages; but, in the vast equality of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius have maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered, by the sovereign and the people, as the lively image of the wisest of mankind.
Side 214 - My dear good lady," replied the author, "do not be gulled by such stories; the book is like your young heir there (pointing to a child of three years old, who was rolling on the carpet in his white tunics), he shows at times a good deal that is usually concealed, but it is all in perfect innocence!
Side 457 - Why, why was I born a man, and yet see the sufferings of wretches I cannot relieve ! Poor houseless creatures ! the world will give you reproaches, but will not give you relief.
Side 456 - Their wretchedness rather excites horror than pity. Some are without the covering even of rags, and others emaciated with disease: the world has disclaimed them; society turns its back upon their distress, and has given them up to nakedness and hunger.
Side 253 - This war between the two northern powers at that time was truly barbarous; the innocent peasant and the harmless virgin often shared the fate of the soldier in arms. Marienburg was taken by assault; and such was the fury of the assailants, that not only the garrison, but almost all the inhabitants, men, women, and children, were put to the sword : at length, when the carnage was pretty well over, Catharina was found hid in an oven.
Side 18 - This universal passion for politics is gratified by daily gazettes, as with us at China. But as in ours the emperor endeavours to instruct his people, in theirs the people endeavour to instruct the administration. You must not, however, imagine, that they who compile these papers have any actual knowledge of the politics, or the government of a state ; they only collect their materials...