Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of LiteratureJ. Raw, 1810 - 241 страници |
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... regarded the inflic- tion of punishment as only a means of reformation . He urged the influence of punishment , regarded as an example to others : this , I replied , would only be a link in the chain ; and he seemed to acquiesce . - His ...
... regarded the inflic- tion of punishment as only a means of reformation . He urged the influence of punishment , regarded as an example to others : this , I replied , would only be a link in the chain ; and he seemed to acquiesce . - His ...
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... regarded consequently , as a sort of commerce between Heaven and Earth . But , in commerce , what is useful is given for what is useful . Do we give , for their favours , what is useful to the Gods ? Euthyphron , with a sort of pious ...
... regarded consequently , as a sort of commerce between Heaven and Earth . But , in commerce , what is useful is given for what is useful . Do we give , for their favours , what is useful to the Gods ? Euthyphron , with a sort of pious ...
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... regarded as the root of all these seductive but pernicious visions , produced in the unhappy writer himself , amidst much specious and hyperbolical virtue , many of the worst effects of a malignant and [ 1798. ] depraved disposition ...
... regarded as the root of all these seductive but pernicious visions , produced in the unhappy writer himself , amidst much specious and hyperbolical virtue , many of the worst effects of a malignant and [ 1798. ] depraved disposition ...
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... regarded as much the more masterly performance ) , to its enforcing rather the lesser manners , which form the charm and safeguard of civilized life , than the higher morals , engrafted on the fiercer passions . Finished the 2d . Vol ...
... regarded as much the more masterly performance ) , to its enforcing rather the lesser manners , which form the charm and safeguard of civilized life , than the higher morals , engrafted on the fiercer passions . Finished the 2d . Vol ...
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... regarded as exempt . Finished Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole . - The character of Bolingbroke's Political Writings is , I think , justly , though clumsily , given , at the close of the 26th . chapter : yet these compositions must ...
... regarded as exempt . Finished Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole . - The character of Bolingbroke's Political Writings is , I think , justly , though clumsily , given , at the close of the 26th . chapter : yet these compositions must ...
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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.