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Сторінка 32
According as this is cultivated in princes , it produces the greatest good or the
greatest evil . Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education
only , it creates an ambitious rather than a noble mind : where it is the natural
bent ...
According as this is cultivated in princes , it produces the greatest good or the
greatest evil . Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education
only , it creates an ambitious rather than a noble mind : where it is the natural
bent ...
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... that some of our greatest geniuses for wit and business have alınost intirely
broke the neck of these absurdities . Victor , after having dispatched the most
impor . tant affairs of the commonwealth , has appeared at an assembly , wliere
all the ...
... that some of our greatest geniuses for wit and business have alınost intirely
broke the neck of these absurdities . Victor , after having dispatched the most
impor . tant affairs of the commonwealth , has appeared at an assembly , wliere
all the ...
Сторінка 142
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer + themselves to our choice , and
inconstancy in pursu . ing them , are the greatest and most universal causes a of
all our disquiet and unhappiness . When ambition pulls one way , interest
another ...
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer + themselves to our choice , and
inconstancy in pursu . ing them , are the greatest and most universal causes a of
all our disquiet and unhappiness . When ambition pulls one way , interest
another ...
Сторінка 160
I remember , in that remarkable year when our country was delivered from the
greatest fears and apprehensions , and raised to the greatest height of gladness
it had ever felt since it was a nation , I mean the year of Blenheim , I had the copy
of ...
I remember , in that remarkable year when our country was delivered from the
greatest fears and apprehensions , and raised to the greatest height of gladness
it had ever felt since it was a nation , I mean the year of Blenheim , I had the copy
of ...
Сторінка 246
jih justify this assertion , I shall put my reader in mind of Horace , the greatest wit
and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau , the most correct poet among the
moderns ; not to mention La Fontaine , who by this way of writing is come more ...
jih justify this assertion , I shall put my reader in mind of Horace , the greatest wit
and critic in the Augustan age ; and of Boileau , the most correct poet among the
moderns ; not to mention La Fontaine , who by this way of writing is come more ...
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Сторінка 121 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
Сторінка 139 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
Сторінка 121 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see, rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
Сторінка 124 - ... waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
Сторінка 123 - I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
Сторінка 215 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Сторінка 120 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 'the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Сторінка 215 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Сторінка 128 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those* that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
Сторінка 120 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
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| Назва | The British Essayists, Том 8 The British Essayists, Alexander Chalmers Том 8 з серії The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Chalmers |
| Редактор | Alexander Chalmers |
| Видавець | J. Johnson, 1808 |
| Оригінал із | Мічиганський університет |
| Оцифровано | 5 трав. 2005 |
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