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Pagina 79
... English , and of consequence there is not a nation more restless , more exposed to the uneasiness of life , or less capable of providing for particular happiness . We are taught to despise this virtue from our childhood , our education ...
... English , and of consequence there is not a nation more restless , more exposed to the uneasiness of life , or less capable of providing for particular happiness . We are taught to despise this virtue from our childhood , our education ...
Pagina 98
... English servants are the best treated , because the generality of our English gentlemen are the politest under the sun But not to lift my feeble voice among the pack of critics , who probably have no other occupation but that of cutting ...
... English servants are the best treated , because the generality of our English gentlemen are the politest under the sun But not to lift my feeble voice among the pack of critics , who probably have no other occupation but that of cutting ...
Pagina 126
... read their sermons with elegance and propriety , but this goes but a very short way in true eloquence . The speaker must be moved . In this , in this alone , our English divines are deficient . Were they to speak to 126 ESSAYS .
... read their sermons with elegance and propriety , but this goes but a very short way in true eloquence . The speaker must be moved . In this , in this alone , our English divines are deficient . Were they to speak to 126 ESSAYS .
Pagina 127
English divines are deficient . Were they to speak to a few calm dispassionate hearers , they certainly use the properest methods of address ; but their audience is chiefly composed of the poor , who must be influenced by motives of ...
English divines are deficient . Were they to speak to a few calm dispassionate hearers , they certainly use the properest methods of address ; but their audience is chiefly composed of the poor , who must be influenced by motives of ...
Pagina 139
... ENGLISH . NOTHING is so uncommon among the English as that easy affability , that instant method of acquaint- ance , or that cheerfulness of disposition , which make in France the charm of every society . Yet in this gloomy reserve they ...
... ENGLISH . NOTHING is so uncommon among the English as that easy affability , that instant method of acquaint- ance , or that cheerfulness of disposition , which make in France the charm of every society . Yet in this gloomy reserve they ...
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Pagina 70 - ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net...
Pagina 71 - ... to another's web for three days, and at length, having killed the defendant, actually took possession. When smaller flies happen to fall into the snare, the spider does not sally out at once, but very patiently waits till it is sure of them; for, upon his immediately approaching, the terror of his appearance might give the captive strength sufficient to get loose : the manner then is to wait patiently till, by ineffectual and impotent struggles, the captive has wasted all its strength, and then...
Pagina 76 - What a gloom hangs all around ! The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam ; no sound is heard but of the chiming clock, or the distant watch-dog. All the bustle of human pride is forgotten ; an hour like this may well display the emptiness of human vanity. " There will come a time, when this temporary solitude may be made continual, and the city itself, like its inhabitants, fade away, and leave a desert in its room.
Pagina 69 - ... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode.
Pagina 70 - Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb.
Pagina 71 - I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist.
Pagina 42 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Pagina 78 - Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Pagina 72 - The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.
Pagina 76 - To the same. 5HE clock just struck two, the expiring taper rises and sinks in the socket, the watchman forgets the hour in slumber, the laborious and the happy, are at rest, and nothing wakes but meditation, guilt, revelry, and despair. The drunkard once more fills the destroying bowl, the robber walks his midnight round, and the suicide lifts his guilty arm against his own sacred person.