Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of LiteratureJ. Raw, 1810 - 241 страници |
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... pains which should have been bestowed on the discovery of truth , were perversely misapplied to the maintenance of error . APRIL the 22d . Read Adam Smith's History of Astronomy , in his posthumous tracts , published by Dugald Stewart ...
... pains which should have been bestowed on the discovery of truth , were perversely misapplied to the maintenance of error . APRIL the 22d . Read Adam Smith's History of Astronomy , in his posthumous tracts , published by Dugald Stewart ...
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... painful illness , which he bore with a pious fortitude suited to his character , in his 68th . year , the Right Honourable E. B. His end was suited to the simple greatness of mind which he displayed through life ; every way unaffected ...
... painful illness , which he bore with a pious fortitude suited to his character , in his 68th . year , the Right Honourable E. B. His end was suited to the simple greatness of mind which he displayed through life ; every way unaffected ...
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... pain , on which the system hinges - terms , which were perhaps adopted a little in the spirit of paradox , and which have been industriously perverted by the malevolence of party . In truth , the system itself very sensibly makes ...
... pain , on which the system hinges - terms , which were perhaps adopted a little in the spirit of paradox , and which have been industriously perverted by the malevolence of party . In truth , the system itself very sensibly makes ...
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... pain and danger , which , when near , overpower and oppress ; but on pain and danger removed ; in which case , the mind , arrogating to itself some portion of the importance which these qualities confer , feels that swelling and triumph ...
... pain and danger , which , when near , overpower and oppress ; but on pain and danger removed ; in which case , the mind , arrogating to itself some portion of the importance which these qualities confer , feels that swelling and triumph ...
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... pains of literary labour , and the pangs of idleness , with the easiest and most felicitous address : while the 12th . , though dexterously managed , and treating on a fruitful subject , is polluted with the rancour , and clouded by the ...
... pains of literary labour , and the pangs of idleness , with the easiest and most felicitous address : while the 12th . , though dexterously managed , and treating on a fruitful subject , is polluted with the rancour , and clouded by the ...
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Страница 236 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Страница 229 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Страница 114 - ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter?
Страница 103 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Страница 68 - Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed.
Страница 237 - With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
Страница 9 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Страница 123 - Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left.
Страница 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.