Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues concerning men and manners. A trip to Holland: containing sketches of character, with cursory observations on the manners and customs of the Dutch in 1770. Public prosperity: Letter addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, in 1792, for raising six millions sterling, and for employing that sum in loans to necessitous and industrious persons ... 3d ed. Saturnian times; or, A plan for abolishing the national religion in favour of the hero-worship of antiquity, addressed to the enlightened heathens of the British empire (2d ed., 1770)G. Virtue, 1838 - Great Britain |
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... already done of my lesser virtues . I have long banished from my remembrance , and given to the winds , the sarcasms , and the invectives , which were thrown out against me by the bitter M. A. De Voltaire . How far I am to be commended ...
... already done of my lesser virtues . I have long banished from my remembrance , and given to the winds , the sarcasms , and the invectives , which were thrown out against me by the bitter M. A. De Voltaire . How far I am to be commended ...
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... of the understanding . Great have been its exertions , wonderful the discoveries it has already made , and much may be yet to come . It must not , however , be forgotten , that , powerful as our intellect may 28 DIALOGUE II .
... of the understanding . Great have been its exertions , wonderful the discoveries it has already made , and much may be yet to come . It must not , however , be forgotten , that , powerful as our intellect may 28 DIALOGUE II .
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... already questioned his moral goodness in regard to the blessings and the evils of life ; little considering that what they call blessings are possibly evils , and vice versa of the ills . 13 Levic . This disquisition is not altogether ...
... already questioned his moral goodness in regard to the blessings and the evils of life ; little considering that what they call blessings are possibly evils , and vice versa of the ills . 13 Levic . This disquisition is not altogether ...
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... already intimated , we divest ourselves of all un- generous sentiments ; we set aside all paltry distinctions ; we are united in the bonds of friendship , and live in harmony and perfect peace . Rouss . A very desirable state indeed ...
... already intimated , we divest ourselves of all un- generous sentiments ; we set aside all paltry distinctions ; we are united in the bonds of friendship , and live in harmony and perfect peace . Rouss . A very desirable state indeed ...
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... already observed , in my discourse on the inequality of mankind ; but we will call it the kiss of friendship , if you please . Volt . It may certainly so be termed ; the Duchess ever afterwards honoured me with her notice . But what ...
... already observed , in my discourse on the inequality of mankind ; but we will call it the kiss of friendship , if you please . Volt . It may certainly so be termed ; the Duchess ever afterwards honoured me with her notice . But what ...
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acknowledge admirable Amsterdam appear attention beautiful bien Bishop of Worcester censure certainly Cerv character Church considered contempt cried critic DIALOGUE Dutchman Dutchwoman elegant ELYSIAN FIELDS endeavour envy equally excellent exclaimed extreme justice Father fellow Fred frequently friends genius gentleman Hague happy Heaven Holland homme honour human humour imagine imitator immortal bard kind king l'humanité lady laws Levic literary live maître d'hôtel manner matter means Megapenthes Merc Merch merit mind Misan Molière Monsieur moral nature never observed once opinion particular passage perhaps philosopher Plutarch poet Pope possibly present prince punishment qu'il Rabelais racter raillery reason remark remember Rhadamanthus ridicule Rouss satire SCENE THE ELYSIAN Scotland sentiments Shakspeare sophism soul speak Sportsm Sterne styled surely thing thou thought Trag treckschute true truly truth vice virtue Volt Voltaire Warb Warburton wholly wish word writer
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Page 178 - But oh ! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
Page 282 - ... that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
Page 20 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
Page 283 - The allurements of emendation are scarcely resistible. Conjecture has all the joy and all the pride of invention, and he that has once started a happy change, is too much delighted to consider what objections may rise against it.
Page 130 - Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our...
Page 96 - How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun.
Page 285 - I did not understand them, will perhaps hereafter be explained, having, I hope, illustrated some, which others have neglected or mistaken, sometimes by short remarks, or marginal directions, such as every editor has added at his will, and often by comments more laborious than the matter will seem to deserve ; but that which is most difficult is not always most important, and to an editor nothing is a trifle by which his author is obscured.
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Page 50 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
Page 282 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature; when he...