Leisure Hours Employed for the Benefit of Those who Would Wish to Begin the World as Wise as Others End itA. Millar, 1759 - 129 sider |
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Side xviii
... deaf to the voice of reason , and those powerful charms of virtue and reli- gion ; and I defire to live no longer , than while I am convinced , there are many many men in the world of an innate worth and XVIII The PREFACE .
... deaf to the voice of reason , and those powerful charms of virtue and reli- gion ; and I defire to live no longer , than while I am convinced , there are many many men in the world of an innate worth and XVIII The PREFACE .
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... reasons , because it lays too great a constraint on the words and actions of the fuf- pected party , and , at the fame time , fhews you have no honourable opi- nion of her ; both of which are strong motives to averfion . XXIII . The man ...
... reasons , because it lays too great a constraint on the words and actions of the fuf- pected party , and , at the fame time , fhews you have no honourable opi- nion of her ; both of which are strong motives to averfion . XXIII . The man ...
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... reason , without any regard to wealth , reputation , or the like con- fiderations , any more than as they fall in with our principal defign , we may go through life with fteadinefs and pleasure but if we will not only be virtuous , but ...
... reason , without any regard to wealth , reputation , or the like con- fiderations , any more than as they fall in with our principal defign , we may go through life with fteadinefs and pleasure but if we will not only be virtuous , but ...
Side 18
... reasons with the utmost coolness and modefty , two things which fearce ever fail of making án impreffion on the hearers . XLI . Nothing is fo glorious in the eyes of mankind , and ornamental to hu- man nature , ( fetting afide the ...
... reasons with the utmost coolness and modefty , two things which fearce ever fail of making án impreffion on the hearers . XLI . Nothing is fo glorious in the eyes of mankind , and ornamental to hu- man nature , ( fetting afide the ...
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... reason , that expofe us to the scorn and derifion of infidels , and finks us even below the beafts that perish . XLII . Join Those whom cross accidents of for- tune have undone , are pitied by all the world , because it is a misfortune ...
... reason , that expofe us to the scorn and derifion of infidels , and finks us even below the beafts that perish . XLII . Join Those whom cross accidents of for- tune have undone , are pitied by all the world , because it is a misfortune ...
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Side 58 - It is our comfort, while we are obnoxious to so many accidents, that we are under the care of One who directs contingencies, and has in his hands the management of every thing that is capable of annoying or offending us ; who knows the assistance we stand in need of, and is always ready to bestow it on those who ask it of him.
Side 42 - In the first place, true honour, though it be a different principle from religion, is that which produces the same effects. The lines of action, though drawn from different parts, terminate in the same point. Religion embraces virtue as it is enjoined by the laws of God; honour, as it is graceful and ornamental to human nature. The religious man fears, the man of honour scorns, to do an ill action. The...
Side 36 - ... of savages. In a word, complaisance is a virtue that blends all orders of men together in a friendly intercourse of words and actions, and is suited to that equality in human nature which every one ought to consider, so far as is consistent with the order and economy of the world.
Side 4 - Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light, takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.
Side 28 - MY Lord Clarendon has observed, that few men have done more harm than those who have been thought to be able to do least ; and there cannot be a greater error, than to believe a man, whom we see qualified with too mean parts to do good, to be therefore incapable of doing hurt. There is a supply of malice, of pride, of industry, and even of folly, in the weakest, when he sets his heart upon it, that makes a strange progress in mischief.
Side 115 - ... under affliction. The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment ; if we aim at any thing higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavours at making himself easy now, and happy hereafter.
Side 145 - This is indeed an arduous task: but it should comfort a glorious spirit that it is the highest step to which human nature can arrive. Triumph, applause, acclamation, are dear to the mind of man; but it is still a...
Side 128 - Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself, and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it, though it leaves the sense of our inability for that we wish, with a disrelish of every thing else.
Side 125 - The wise man considers what he wants, and the fool what he abounds in. The wise man is happy when he gains his own approbation, and the fool when he recommends himself to the applause of those about him.
Side 134 - But if you contend for the honour of victory alone, you may lay down this as an infallible maxim, That you cannot make a more false step, or give your antagonists a greater advantage over you, than by falling into a passion.