Essays, Moral and Literary, Band 1J. Richardson and Company; [etc., etc. ], 1783 |
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Seite 319 - Not once in a hundred times does any officer enter ; and, if he does, he hears one syllogism or two, and then makes a bow, and departs, as he came and remained, in solemn silence. The disputants then return to the amusement of cutting the desks, carving their names, or reading Sterne's Sentimental Journey, or some other edifying novel.
Seite 67 - That Richardson's Novels are written with the purest intentions of promoting virtue, none can deny. But in the accomplishment of this purpose scenes are laid open, which it would be safer to conceal, and sentiments excited, which it would be more advantageous to early virtue not to admit. Dangers and temptations are pointed out ; but many of them are dangers which seldom occur, and temptations by which few in comparison are assaulted. It is to be feared, the moral view is rarely regarded by youthful...
Seite 183 - They knew that even their best friends, in the common intercourse of life, were in some degree actuated by interested motives in displaying their affection ; that many of their followers applauded them in hopes of reward ; and that the giddy multitude, however zealous, were not always judicious in their approbation. But the attentions paid them at their fire-side, the smiles which exhilarated their own table, were the genuine result of undissembled love, and home was the only secure haven in the...
Seite 142 - Cc in the ninth chapter, he obferves, that the race is not to the fwift, nor the battle to the ftrong; — neither yet bread to the wife, — nor yet riches to men of underftanding, — nor favour to men of fkill ; — but time and chance happens to them all.
Seite 165 - ... acquire not only a power of bearing, but of taking a pleasure in temporary solitude. Every one must, indeed, sometimes be alone. Let him not repine when he is alone, but learn to set a value on the golden moments.
Seite 320 - The candidate to be examined employs three or four days in learning these by heart, and the examiners, having done the same before him when they were examined, know what questions to ask, and so all goes on smoothly.
Seite 321 - ... however a great deal of trouble in little formalities, such as procuring six-penny liceats, sticking up the names on the walls, sitting in large empty rooms by yourself or with some poor wight as ill employed as yourself, without...
Seite 142 - ... than that of want. In this point, as well as in many others, there is an exact analogy between the moral and literary world. It has long been the complaint of the experienced, that no human forefight, no prudence, can at all times enfure profperity, and avert ill-fortune. Something ftill arifes to baffle the counfels of the wife, and to counteract the intentions of the good.
Seite 71 - The success of this work has given rise to others on the same plan, inferior to this in its real merits, and labouring under the same fault of redundant decoration. What others may feel, I know not ; but I would no more be obliged to read the works of Gesner repeatedly, than to make a frequent meal on the honey-comb.
Seite 319 - When the important day arrives, the two doubty disputants go into a large dusty room, full of dirt and cobwebs, with walls and wainscot decorated with the names of former disputants, who, to divert the tedious hours, cut out their names with their penknives, or wrote verses with a pencil. Here they sit in mean desks, opposite to each other, from one o'clock till three.