The Rambler. ...W. Gordon, C. Wright, and the other booksellers, 1750 |
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... gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not feel , to excite compaffion by confeffing weakness of which they are not convinced , and others to at- tract regard by a fhew of opennefs and magnanimity ...
... gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not feel , to excite compaffion by confeffing weakness of which they are not convinced , and others to at- tract regard by a fhew of opennefs and magnanimity ...
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... gain by this preoccupation of the foul , arifes that conflict between oppofite defires , in the firft endea- vours after a religious life ; which , however enthufi- ically it may have been defcribed , or however mptuoufly ridiculed ...
... gain by this preoccupation of the foul , arifes that conflict between oppofite defires , in the firft endea- vours after a religious life ; which , however enthufi- ically it may have been defcribed , or however mptuoufly ridiculed ...
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... gain our attention , which the business , or diverfions of the world are always calling off by contrary attractions . The great art therefore of piety , and the end for which all the rites of religion feem to be inftituted , is the ...
... gain our attention , which the business , or diverfions of the world are always calling off by contrary attractions . The great art therefore of piety , and the end for which all the rites of religion feem to be inftituted , is the ...
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... gain , by confeffion , great opportunities of knowing human nature , have generally determined that what it is a crime to do , it is a crime to think . Since by revolving with pleasure , the facility , fafety or advantage of a wicked ...
... gain , by confeffion , great opportunities of knowing human nature , have generally determined that what it is a crime to do , it is a crime to think . Since by revolving with pleasure , the facility , fafety or advantage of a wicked ...
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... gain it , and to image the happinefs of particular condi- tions till we can be eafy in no other . We ought , at leaft , to let our defires fix upon nothing in another's power for the fake of our quiet , or in another's pof- feffion for ...
... gain it , and to image the happinefs of particular condi- tions till we can be eafy in no other . We ought , at leaft , to let our defires fix upon nothing in another's power for the fake of our quiet , or in another's pof- feffion for ...
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Страница 13 - Yet there is a certain race of men, that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius ; who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving ignorance and envy the first notice of a prey.
Страница 237 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched ; this is the condition of all below the stars ; and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Страница 19 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...
Страница 18 - They are engaged in portraits of which every one knows the original, and can detect any deviation from exactness of resemblance. Other writings are safe, except from the malice of learning, but these are in danger from every common reader; as the slipper ill executed was censured by a shoemaker who happened to stop in his way at the Venus of Apelles.
Страница 17 - The works of fiction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Страница 18 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Страница 19 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Страница 259 - ... never arrives. He lies down delighted with the thoughts of to-morrow, pleases his ambition with the fame he shall acquire, or his benevolence with the good he shall confer. But in the night the skies...
Страница 238 - Providence diffused such innumerable objects of delight but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence, and be filled with gratitude to the beneficent author of it? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent is virtue and obedience; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure is pitiable ignorance or absurd perverseness.
Страница 22 - In narratives where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...