Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 2Carey & Hart, 1843 |
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... death took place in 1806. It is notorious , indeed , that the biographer of Beattie lived just long enough to complete the history of his friend . Eight or nine years before the date which Mr. Croker has assigned for Sir William's death ...
... death took place in 1806. It is notorious , indeed , that the biographer of Beattie lived just long enough to complete the history of his friend . Eight or nine years before the date which Mr. Croker has assigned for Sir William's death ...
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... death : so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution : there can be no stronger proof that he was not a political martyr . " § Now , what will our readers think of this writer , when we assure them that this ...
... death : so that one party presided at his trial , and another at his execution : there can be no stronger proof that he was not a political martyr . " § Now , what will our readers think of this writer , when we assure them that this ...
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... death of Johnson . " It was in the year 1761 , says Mr. Croker , " that Gold- smith published his Vicar of Wakefield . This leads the editor to observe a more serious inaccuracy of Mrs. Piozzi , than Mr. Boswell notices , when he says ...
... death of Johnson . " It was in the year 1761 , says Mr. Croker , " that Gold- smith published his Vicar of Wakefield . This leads the editor to observe a more serious inaccuracy of Mrs. Piozzi , than Mr. Boswell notices , when he says ...
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... Death of Charles II . , and to the City and Country Mouse , that Montague owed his introduction into public life , his earldom , his garter , and his auditorship of the Exchequer . Swift , but for the unconquerable prejudice of the ...
... Death of Charles II . , and to the City and Country Mouse , that Montague owed his introduction into public life , his earldom , his garter , and his auditorship of the Exchequer . Swift , but for the unconquerable prejudice of the ...
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... death were just the same to him . " Why , then , " said an objector , " do you not kill yourself ? " The philosopher answered , " because it is just the same . " the difference between two forms of government be not worth half a guinea ...
... death were just the same to him . " Why , then , " said an objector , " do you not kill yourself ? " The philosopher answered , " because it is just the same . " the difference between two forms of government be not worth half a guinea ...
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Seite 357 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 40 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Seite 399 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Seite 399 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Seite 399 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 399 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Seite 212 - C'est pure medisance : il ne 1'a jamais e"te". Tout ce qu'il faisait, c'est qu'il etait fort obligeant, fort officieux ; et comme il se connaissait fort bien en etoffes, il en allait choisir de tous les cotes, les faisait apporter chez lui, et en donnait a ses amis pour de 1'argent.
Seite 46 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Seite 344 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Seite 376 - ... the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.