The Rambler. ...W. Gordon, C. Wright, and the other booksellers, 1750 |
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... labour , and to conquer without a conteft . It is fo eafy to laugh at the folly of him who lives only in idea , refufes immediate eafe for diftant pleafures , and , instead of enjoying the bleffings of life , lets life glide away in ...
... labour , and to conquer without a conteft . It is fo eafy to laugh at the folly of him who lives only in idea , refufes immediate eafe for diftant pleafures , and , instead of enjoying the bleffings of life , lets life glide away in ...
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... labour , muft folace his wearinefs with the contemplation of its reward . In agriculture , one of the moft fimple and neceffary employments , no man turns up the ground but because he thinks of the harvest , that harveft which blights ...
... labour , muft folace his wearinefs with the contemplation of its reward . In agriculture , one of the moft fimple and neceffary employments , no man turns up the ground but because he thinks of the harvest , that harveft which blights ...
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... LABOUR and of TRUTH : fhe was , at her birth , committed to the care of JUSTICE , and brought up by her in the palace of WISDOM . Being foon diflin- diftinguished by the celeftials , for her uncommon qualities , N ° 3 . 13 The RAMBLER .
... LABOUR and of TRUTH : fhe was , at her birth , committed to the care of JUSTICE , and brought up by her in the palace of WISDOM . Being foon diflin- diftinguished by the celeftials , for her uncommon qualities , N ° 3 . 13 The RAMBLER .
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... labour and reft , hurry and retirement , en- dear each other ; fuch are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we defire , we pursue , we ob- tain , we are fatiated ; we defire fomething elfe , and begin a new pursuit . If he had ...
... labour and reft , hurry and retirement , en- dear each other ; fuch are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we defire , we pursue , we ob- tain , we are fatiated ; we defire fomething elfe , and begin a new pursuit . If he had ...
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... labour of the hands , and expedition of the feet . For this reafon , the antient generals often found themselves at leifure to purfue the ftudy of philo- sophy in the camp ; and Lucan , with hiftorical ve- racity , makes Cæfar relate of ...
... labour of the hands , and expedition of the feet . For this reafon , the antient generals often found themselves at leifure to purfue the ftudy of philo- sophy in the camp ; and Lucan , with hiftorical ve- racity , makes Cæfar relate of ...
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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...