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... fecond Palm , we have this obfervation ; Theodore Zuinger , of whom fome account may be found in Thuanus , when he lay on his death bed , took his leave of the world , in a paraphrafe on the foregoing Pfalm , giving it the fame turn ...
... fecond Palm , we have this obfervation ; Theodore Zuinger , of whom fome account may be found in Thuanus , when he lay on his death bed , took his leave of the world , in a paraphrafe on the foregoing Pfalm , giving it the fame turn ...
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... fecond - rate difciples of Linnæus to the collection and claffification of plants , he betook himself rather to the abftrufer fubterraneous king- dom of Nature ; which , from its being furrounded with darkness , and attended with ...
... fecond - rate difciples of Linnæus to the collection and claffification of plants , he betook himself rather to the abftrufer fubterraneous king- dom of Nature ; which , from its being furrounded with darkness , and attended with ...
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... fecond excurfion with that generous warmth which has made him one of the most learned and moft liberal promoters of Mineralogy .. Having formerly communicated to his friend very instructive and entertaining accounts of his own ...
... fecond excurfion with that generous warmth which has made him one of the most learned and moft liberal promoters of Mineralogy .. Having formerly communicated to his friend very instructive and entertaining accounts of his own ...
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... fecond he comes to his capital point , which he introduces with the following important obfervations : You are undoubtedly too good a logician , not to acknow- ledge , that , if different paffages of fcripture be contradictory one to ...
... fecond he comes to his capital point , which he introduces with the following important obfervations : You are undoubtedly too good a logician , not to acknow- ledge , that , if different paffages of fcripture be contradictory one to ...
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... fecond edition . There are interspersed through the volume , a number of little poetical pieces , which we do not remember to have feen before ; and which the tran- flator has attempted to give in the spirit of the originals : ' we ...
... fecond edition . There are interspersed through the volume , a number of little poetical pieces , which we do not remember to have feen before ; and which the tran- flator has attempted to give in the spirit of the originals : ' we ...
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Page 211 - ... modesty, and without even the slightest tincture of malignity, so frequently- the disagreeable source of what is called wit in other men. It never was the meaning of his raillery to mortify ; and therefore, far from offending, it seldom failed to please and delight even those who were the objects of it.
Page 209 - I thought I might say to him, ' Good Charon, I have been correcting my works for a new edition. Allow me a little time that I may see how the public receives the alterations.
Page 211 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Page 206 - Discourses, the only work of mine that was successful on the first publication. It was well received abroad and at home. In the same year was published at London, my Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals ; which, in my own opinion (who ought not to judge on that subject), is of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best. It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world.
Page 208 - ... religious factions, they seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct: not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot...
Page 330 - At eve within yon studious nook, I ope my brass-embossed book, Portray'd with many a holy deed Of martyrs, crown'd with heavenly meed : Then, as my taper waxes dim, Chant, ere I sleep, my measured hymn ; And at the close, the gleams behold Of parting wings bedropt with gold.
Page 427 - It has been often observed that the good and virtuous man alone can acquire this true or just relish, even of works of art. This opinion will not appear entirely without foundation when we consider that the same habit of mind which is acquired by our search after truth in the more serious duties of life, is only transferred to the pursuit of lighter amusements : the same disposition, the...
Page 286 - The vigour which it gives the mind, and the weight which it adds to character ; the generous sentiments which it breathes, the undaunted spirit which it inspires, the...
Page 206 - In 1752, the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an Office from which I received little or no Emolument, but which gave me the Command of a large Library. I then formed the Plan of writing the History of England...
Page 281 - True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us, and to the common nature of which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants ; and from just views of the condition, and the duty of man.