Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: In Three Volumes, Volume 3John Darby in Bartholomew-close, 1732 - Ethics |
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... Church - Militant . Philofophers , and Bear - Garden.- Authors pair'd and match'd . The Match - makers . - Foot - Ball . -A Dialogue between our Au- thor and his Bookseller . A MONG the many Improvements daily made in the Art of Writing ...
... Church - Militant . Philofophers , and Bear - Garden.- Authors pair'd and match'd . The Match - makers . - Foot - Ball . -A Dialogue between our Au- thor and his Bookseller . A MONG the many Improvements daily made in the Art of Writing ...
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... Church - history , and the antient Purity of the Chriftian Faith . But let it fo happen that in this Profecution of his deceas'd Adverfary , our Doctor raifes up fome living Anta- gonist ; who , on the fame foot of Ortho- doxy with ...
... Church - history , and the antient Purity of the Chriftian Faith . But let it fo happen that in this Profecution of his deceas'd Adverfary , our Doctor raifes up fome living Anta- gonist ; who , on the fame foot of Ortho- doxy with ...
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... Church , and Policy of FRANCE , it must be own'd thofe Journalists have treated him with fufficient Candor : tho they fail'd not to take what Advantages they well cou'd against the Writing , and particularly ar- raign'd it for the want ...
... Church , and Policy of FRANCE , it must be own'd thofe Journalists have treated him with fufficient Candor : tho they fail'd not to take what Advantages they well cou'd against the Writing , and particularly ar- raign'd it for the want ...
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... , inflict and fuffer * MARTYRDOM , with a * A Paffage of Hiftory comes to my mind , as it is cited by an eminent Divine of our own Church , with regard to that t a thousand other the most vehement Ef - Ch 40 MISCELLANEOUS.
... , inflict and fuffer * MARTYRDOM , with a * A Paffage of Hiftory comes to my mind , as it is cited by an eminent Divine of our own Church , with regard to that t a thousand other the most vehement Ef - Ch 40 MISCELLANEOUS.
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... Church - Lands ; " and that in this great Revolution nothing was ( 1. ) Καὶ ἐπαιδεύθη Μωσης ΠΑΣΗ ΣΟΦΙΑ Αἰγυπτίων · ἦν δὲ δυνατὸς ἐν λόγοις καὶ ἐν ἔργοις . Αct . Apoft . cap . vii . ver . 22 . ( 2. ) Exod . cap . vii . ver . 11 , & 22 ...
... Church - Lands ; " and that in this great Revolution nothing was ( 1. ) Καὶ ἐπαιδεύθη Μωσης ΠΑΣΗ ΣΟΦΙΑ Αἰγυπτίων · ἦν δὲ δυνατὸς ἐν λόγοις καὶ ἐν ἔργοις . Αct . Apoft . cap . vii . ver . 22 . ( 2. ) Exod . cap . vii . ver . 11 , & 22 ...
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abfolute Affection againſt allow'd anſwer antient Author Beauty befides beſt Cafe call'd Caufe Cauſe Character Chriftian Church Conftitution cou'd Criticks Defign Difcourfe Divine eafily Enthufiafm eſtabliſh'd Eſtabliſhment facred faid Faith fame Fancy fays feems felf felves fhall fhew fhou'd fide fince fingle firft firſt fome form'd fpeaking ftill fuch fufficient fure Genius greateſt Hiftory higheſt himſelf holy Humour ibid Intereft it-felf juft juſt kind laft leaft leaſt lefs Letter Liberty Mankind manner Maſters Meaſure Mifc Miſc moft moral moſt muft muſt Nation natural neceffarily neceffary neceffity Number occafion our-felves Paffion Perfon perhaps Philofophers Piece Pleaſure Poet poffibly prefent Publick racter raiſe Reader Reaſon refpect Religion religious reprefent Senfe ſtill ſuch Tablature thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thor thoſe thought thro tion Treatife Truth Twas Underſtanding uſe VIRTUE whilft whofe World wou'd Writing Zeal δὲ καὶ τὸ
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Page 260 - Tis not the Possible, but the Probable and Likely, which must be the Poet's Guide in Manners. By this he wins Attention, and moves the conscious Reader or Spectator; who judges best from within, by what he naturally feels and experiences in his own Heart. The Perfection of Virtue is from long Art and Management, Self-controul, and, as it were, Force on Nature.
Page 180 - ... from the perfection of Nature in her just adapting of every limb and proportion to the activity, strength, dexterity, life and vigour of the particular species or animal designed.
Page 262 - We see in outward carriage and behaviour how ridiculous any one becomes who imitates another, be he ever so graceful. They are mean spirits who love to copy merely, nothing is agreeable or natural but what is original. Our manners, like our faces, though ever so beautiful, must differ in their beauty.
Page 140 - ... wrought out of nature and drawn from the necessary operation and course of things, working, as it were, of their own accord and proper inclination.
Page 164 - ... is formed of all this management and the clear notion we attain of what is preferable and principal in all these subjects of choice and estimation will not, as I imagine, by any person be taken for innate. Use, practice and culture must precede the understanding and wit of such an advanced size and growth as this.
Page 26 - The just composer of a legitimate piece is like an able traveller, who exactly measures his journey, considers his ground, premeditates his stages and intervals of relaxation and intention to the very conclusion of his undertaking, that he happily arrives where he first proposed when he set out.
Page 333 - I fay, let us fuppofe, that in this ftate of things, one or more of the moft Eminent then in the Church, either out of Defign, or out of fuperftitious...
Page 177 - But such is the nature of the liberal, polished, and refined part of mankind. So far are they from the mere simplicity of babes and sucklings that, instead of applying the notion of a future reward or...
Page 285 - Jcholaftical, under the appearance of a polite Work. It afpires to Dialogue, and carrys
Page 183 - Will it not be found in this respect, above all, "that what is beautiful is harmonious and proportionable'; what is harmonious and proportionable is true; and what is at once both beautiful and true is, of consequence, agreeable and good"?