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Side 26
... things , that it is still like the palate of other men in many things , and only vitiated in some par- ticular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he ...
... things , that it is still like the palate of other men in many things , and only vitiated in some par- ticular points . For in judging of any new thing , even of a taste similar to that which he has been formed by habit to like , he ...
Side 30
... thing , because every thing has , in that stage of life , the charm of novelty to re- commend it . But as those things , which engage us merely by their novelty , cannot attach us for any length of time , curiosity is the most super ...
... thing , because every thing has , in that stage of life , the charm of novelty to re- commend it . But as those things , which engage us merely by their novelty , cannot attach us for any length of time , curiosity is the most super ...
Side 31
... thing exists ; since pleasure is only pleasure as it is felt . The same may be said of pain , and with equal reason . I can never persuade myself that pleasure and pain are mere relations , which can only exist as they are contrasted ...
... thing exists ; since pleasure is only pleasure as it is felt . The same may be said of pain , and with equal reason . I can never persuade myself that pleasure and pain are mere relations , which can only exist as they are contrasted ...
Side 35
... thing itself . But then I imagine we shall be much mis- taken , if we attribute any considerable part of our atisfaction in tragedy to the consideration that tragedy is a deceit , and its representations no realities . The nearer it ...
... thing itself . But then I imagine we shall be much mis- taken , if we attribute any considerable part of our atisfaction in tragedy to the consideration that tragedy is a deceit , and its representations no realities . The nearer it ...
Side 36
... thing ; and what we learn thus , we acquire not only more effectually , but more plea- santly . This forms our manners , our opinions , our lives . It is one of the strongest links of so- ciety ; it is a species of mutual compliance ...
... thing ; and what we learn thus , we acquire not only more effectually , but more plea- santly . This forms our manners , our opinions , our lives . It is one of the strongest links of so- ciety ; it is a species of mutual compliance ...
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Side 262 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or...
Side 180 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 186 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Side 185 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Side 204 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Side 188 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Side 393 - You will observe that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Side 186 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource, for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Side 187 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Side 394 - In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable, and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.