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Pagina 2
... most frequent difficulty by which the au- thors of these petty compofitions are distressed , a- rifes from the perpetual demand of novelty and change . The compiler of a fyftem of science lays his invention at reft ; and employs only ...
... most frequent difficulty by which the au- thors of these petty compofitions are distressed , a- rifes from the perpetual demand of novelty and change . The compiler of a fyftem of science lays his invention at reft ; and employs only ...
Pagina 4
... most enlightened wisdom must be fatisfied with fuch obfcure and uncertain conjectures , as the comparison of probabilities will afford . Nor is it any wonder that their time is past between elation and despondency , between hope and dif ...
... most enlightened wisdom must be fatisfied with fuch obfcure and uncertain conjectures , as the comparison of probabilities will afford . Nor is it any wonder that their time is past between elation and despondency , between hope and dif ...
Pagina 6
... most easily be made wife or virtuous . Whoever shall enquire by what motives he was determined on these important occafions , will find them fuch , as his pride will scarcely fuffer him to confefs ; fome fudden ardour of defire , fome ...
... most easily be made wife or virtuous . Whoever shall enquire by what motives he was determined on these important occafions , will find them fuch , as his pride will scarcely fuffer him to confefs ; fome fudden ardour of defire , fome ...
Pagina 12
... most miserable of human beings ; among those who are guilty without reward ; who have neither the gladnefs of profperity , nor the calm of innocence . He that confiders the weakness both of himself and others , will not long want ...
... most miserable of human beings ; among those who are guilty without reward ; who have neither the gladnefs of profperity , nor the calm of innocence . He that confiders the weakness both of himself and others , will not long want ...
Pagina 25
... most expert fisher of Greenland , had perished by too close pursuit of the whale . His dignity was equalled by his riches : He was mafter of four mens and two womens VOL . VIII . boats , D boats , had ninety tubs of oil in his winter N ...
... most expert fisher of Greenland , had perished by too close pursuit of the whale . His dignity was equalled by his riches : He was mafter of four mens and two womens VOL . VIII . boats , D boats , had ninety tubs of oil in his winter N ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 174 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Pagina 130 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Pagina 176 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Pagina 176 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age. I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.
Pagina 13 - It is always an ignorant, lazy, or cowardly acquiescence in a false appearance of excellence, and proceeds not from consciousness of our attainments, but insensibility of our wants. Nothing can be great which is not right. Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind.
Pagina 12 - ... inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence; we cannot be certain...
Pagina 15 - One of the great arts of escaping superfluous uneasiness, is to free our minds from the habit of comparing our condition with that of others on whom the blessings of life are more bountifully bestowed, or with imaginary states of delight and security, perhaps unattainable by mortals.
Pagina 11 - A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. He that willingly suffers the corrosions of inveterate hatred, and gives up his days and nights to the gloom of malice and perturbations of stratagem, cannot surely be said to consult his ease.
Pagina 13 - The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present dangers or advantage; a continual reference of every action to the divine will; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain.
Pagina 44 - ... rest till thou art loved by all to whom thou art known. In the height of my power, I said to defamation, Who will hear thee...