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Pagina 6
... when we reflect upon the precepts by viewing the example , though there is no excellence proposed by those rhetoricians wanting , the whole art seems to be resolved into that one motive of speaking , sincerity in the intention .
... when we reflect upon the precepts by viewing the example , though there is no excellence proposed by those rhetoricians wanting , the whole art seems to be resolved into that one motive of speaking , sincerity in the intention .
Pagina 22
Methinks he seems no bigger than his head . The fishermen that walk upon the beach , Appear like mice , and yond ' tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boar ! a buoy Almost too small for sight . The murmuring surge ( That on ...
Methinks he seems no bigger than his head . The fishermen that walk upon the beach , Appear like mice , and yond ' tall anchoring bark Diminish'd to her boat ; her boar ! a buoy Almost too small for sight . The murmuring surge ( That on ...
Pagina 28
There is a great deal of pleasure in prying into this world of wors ders , which nature has laid out of sight , and seems di dustrious to conceal from us . Philosophy had ranged . over all the visible creation , and began to want ...
There is a great deal of pleasure in prying into this world of wors ders , which nature has laid out of sight , and seems di dustrious to conceal from us . Philosophy had ranged . over all the visible creation , and began to want ...
Pagina 42
These voluntary friendships between animals of different species , seem to arise from instinct ; for which reason , I have always looked upon the mutual good - will between the ' squire and the hound , to be of the same nature with that ...
These voluntary friendships between animals of different species , seem to arise from instinct ; for which reason , I have always looked upon the mutual good - will between the ' squire and the hound , to be of the same nature with that ...
Pagina 57
... and not upon the stars , as in the following letter from one , who , I fear , flatters himself with hopes of success , which are altogether groundless , since he does not seem to me so great a fool as he takes himself to be .
... and not upon the stars , as in the following letter from one , who , I fear , flatters himself with hopes of success , which are altogether groundless , since he does not seem to me so great a fool as he takes himself to be .
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