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... just , " Is it not a shame for a phi- « losopher , who is an observer and examiner " of nature , to derive testimony from minds " prepossessed with Custom ? " We are as great a wonder to barbarians as they are to us , and with equal ...
... just , " Is it not a shame for a phi- « losopher , who is an observer and examiner " of nature , to derive testimony from minds " prepossessed with Custom ? " We are as great a wonder to barbarians as they are to us , and with equal ...
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... just medium between yielding too much to grief , and " reprobating the fentiment , " is beautifully expreffed by Shakespear . Malcolm exhorts Macduff , upon the lofs of his wife and children , " to bear it like a man . " Macd . " I ...
... just medium between yielding too much to grief , and " reprobating the fentiment , " is beautifully expreffed by Shakespear . Malcolm exhorts Macduff , upon the lofs of his wife and children , " to bear it like a man . " Macd . " I ...
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... just observation , that he whose memory is imperfect ought not to take up the trade of lying . Whether he invents entirely , or disguises and alters facts , without an excellent memory , he will probably be brought to shame , because ...
... just observation , that he whose memory is imperfect ought not to take up the trade of lying . Whether he invents entirely , or disguises and alters facts , without an excellent memory , he will probably be brought to shame , because ...
Page 68
... answer of Argefilaus was perfectly just to the person who said , " What a happy young man the king of Persia was , to come into possession of so mighty a kingdom at his early period of life . ** X life . " " Tis true , " he said.
... answer of Argefilaus was perfectly just to the person who said , " What a happy young man the king of Persia was , to come into possession of so mighty a kingdom at his early period of life . ** X life . " " Tis true , " he said.
Page 78
... just completed thirty - nine years , and I think it probable I shall live as many more ; never- theless , it would be the height of folly in me to be too anxious about the time of my diffo- lution . The young and the old equally quit ...
... just completed thirty - nine years , and I think it probable I shall live as many more ; never- theless , it would be the height of folly in me to be too anxious about the time of my diffo- lution . The young and the old equally quit ...
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Page 69 - And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
Page 116 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Page 117 - Where yet was ever found a mother, Who'd give her booby for another ? And should we change with human breed, Well might we pass for fools indeed.
Page 134 - But, withal, let my governor remember to what end his instructions are principally directed, and that he do not so much imprint in his pupil's memory the date of the ruin of Carthage, as the manners of Hannibal and Scipio; nor so much where Marcellus died, as why it was unworthy of his duty that he died there.
Page 76 - Proferpine for ever treads In paths unfeen, o'er our devoted heads ; And on the fpacious land, and liquid main, Spreads flow difeafe, or darts affliftive pain : Variety of deaths confirm her endlefs reign.
Page 62 - Deeper to wound, fhe fhuns the fight ; She drops her arms, to gain the field ; Secures her conqueft by her flight ; And triumphs, when fhe feems to yield. VIII. So, when the Parthian turn'd his fteed, And from the hoftile camp withdrew, With cruel fkill the backward reed He fcnt ; and, as he fled, he flew. SEE»99 SEEING THE DUKE OF ORMOND'S PICTURE AT SIR GODFREY KNELLER'S.
Page 68 - Till pitying Nature figns the laft releafe, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. But few there are whom hours like thefe await, Who fet unclouded in the gulphs of Fate. From Lydia's...
Page 76 - Too foon •Convinc'd, fhall yield that fleeting breath, Which play'd fo idly with the darts of death. Some from the ftranded veflel force their way ; Fearful of Fate, they meet it in the fea : Some who efcape the fury of the wave, Sicken on earth, and fink into a grave : In journies or at home, in war or peace, By hardfhips many, many fall by eafe. Each changing feafon does its poifon bring, Rheums chill the winter, agues blaft the fpring; Wet, dry, cold, hot, at the appointed hour, All aft fubfervient...
Page 8 - ... that his father had beaten his grandfather, and his grandfather his great grandfather ; and pointing to his son he said, ' This little fellow will beat me when he has grown to be a man : — it is a constitutional weakness in our family.
Page xviii - France who served under six kings, Francis I., Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., Henry III., and Henry IV. He distinguished himself at the battles of Dreux, Saint-Denis, Montcontour, and in the famous siege of Rochelle in 1573.