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Pagina 4
... themselves by defign into the arms of fortune , and voluntarily to quit the power of regulating their own state . They engage in a course of life in which scarcely any event can be ascertained by previous measures ; and the most ...
... themselves by defign into the arms of fortune , and voluntarily to quit the power of regulating their own state . They engage in a course of life in which scarcely any event can be ascertained by previous measures ; and the most ...
Pagina 6
... themselves on every part to inquifitiveness and folicitude . Life itself is uncertain ; and therefore nothing which has life for its bafis , can boast much stabi- lity . But this is but a small part of human un- certainty . We fet out ...
... themselves on every part to inquifitiveness and folicitude . Life itself is uncertain ; and therefore nothing which has life for its bafis , can boast much stabi- lity . But this is but a small part of human un- certainty . We fet out ...
Pagina 7
... themselves without guilt in ca- lamities , very few who reproach themfelves with their own folly , can be certain that any other measures would have been more fuccefsful . In this state of universal uncertainty , where a thousand ...
... themselves without guilt in ca- lamities , very few who reproach themfelves with their own folly , can be certain that any other measures would have been more fuccefsful . In this state of universal uncertainty , where a thousand ...
Pagina 32
... themselves , please on- ly at the first interview , and , for want of new fup- plies of intelligence , wear out their stories with continual repetition . There would be therefore little hope of obtain- ing the praise of a good companion ...
... themselves , please on- ly at the first interview , and , for want of new fup- plies of intelligence , wear out their stories with continual repetition . There would be therefore little hope of obtain- ing the praise of a good companion ...
Pagina 33
... themselves in the rudi- ments of raillery : for he never takes advantage of failings , nor difconcerts a puny fatyrift with unexpected farcafms ; but , while the glass conti- nues to circulate , contentedly bears the expence of ...
... themselves in the rudi- ments of raillery : for he never takes advantage of failings , nor difconcerts a puny fatyrift with unexpected farcafms ; but , while the glass conti- nues to circulate , contentedly bears the expence of ...
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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...