The British Prose Writers...: Cowley's essays. Shenstone's essaysJ. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... laws which they have made themselves , under whatsoever form it be of government : the liberty of a private man , in being master of his own time and actions , as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country . Of this ...
... laws which they have made themselves , under whatsoever form it be of government : the liberty of a private man , in being master of his own time and actions , as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country . Of this ...
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... plenty , without any just argument for the desire of in- creasing it by the care of many relations ; and with so much knowledge and love of piety and philosophy Virg . Georg . iii . 7 . ( that is , of the study of God's laws OF LIBERTY .
... plenty , without any just argument for the desire of in- creasing it by the care of many relations ; and with so much knowledge and love of piety and philosophy Virg . Georg . iii . 7 . ( that is , of the study of God's laws OF LIBERTY .
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( that is , of the study of God's laws , and of his crea- tures ) as may afford him matter enough never to be idle , though without business ; and never to be melancholy , though without sin or vanity . I shall conclude this tedious ...
( that is , of the study of God's laws , and of his crea- tures ) as may afford him matter enough never to be idle , though without business ; and never to be melancholy , though without sin or vanity . I shall conclude this tedious ...
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... law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I will not be , Nor shall my future actions be confined By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days , that yet belong to fate , Does , like an unthrift , mortgage ...
... law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I will not be , Nor shall my future actions be confined By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engaged does stand For days , that yet belong to fate , Does , like an unthrift , mortgage ...
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... law , which is , that no men put their children to be bred up ap- prentices in agriculture , as in other trades , but such who are so poor , that , when they come to be men , they have not wherewithal to set up in it , and so can only ...
... law , which is , that no men put their children to be bred up ap- prentices in agriculture , as in other trades , but such who are so poor , that , when they come to be men , they have not wherewithal to set up in it , and so can only ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afford agreeable allow ambition appear avarice beauty better betwixt character Cicero Columella consider death degree delight discover dost dress earth effect envy Epicurus EPIG esteem ev'n fame fancy favour fear fool fortune friends garden genius gentleman give happiness highwayman honour Horace human imagination Incitatus instance justice of peace kind king latter least LENOX LIBRARY less liberty live lord lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind manner means ment merit methinks mind nation nature never objects observed occasion one's Ovid passions perhaps person Pindaric pleased pleasure plebeian poet poetry princes proper quire racter reason regard rich Sallust Sapere aude seems sense sometimes sort style superior suppose sure taste thee things thou thought tion trees Triarii truth tyrant Urim and Thummim vanity Varro verse Virg Virgil virtue vulgar whole wise wonder word writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 121 - t depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed as death, the night. My house a cottage, more Than palace, and should fitting be For all my use, no luxury. My garden painted o'er With Nature's hand, not Art's ; and pleasures yield, Horace might envy in his Sabine field.
Seite 101 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Seite 28 - Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! Hail, ye plebeian under-wood ! Where the poetic birds rejoice, And for their quiet nests and plenteous food Pay, with their grateful voice. Hail, the poor Muses...
Seite 116 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Seite 121 - Even when I was a very young Boy at School, instead of running about on Holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them, and walk into the fields, either alone with a Book, or with some one Companion, if I could find any of the same temper.
Seite 105 - I thought, when I went first to dwell in the country, that without doubt I should have met there with the simplicity of the old poetical golden age ; I thought to have found no inhabitants there, but such as the shepherds of Sir Philip Sidney in Arcadia, or of Monsieur d'Urfe...
Seite 126 - Nothing shall separate me from a mistress which I have loved so long, and have now at last married, though she neither has brought me a rich portion, nor lived yet so quietly with me as I hoped from her.
Seite 66 - Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Seite 29 - Here let me careless and unthoughtful lying, Hear the soft winds above me flying With all their wanton boughs dispute, And the more tuneful birds to both replying, Nor be myself too mute.