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Page 72
... live with me . Not like people at the end of the town , we dine at one o'clock . But I never take any body without a character ; what friends do you come of ? I then told her that my father was a gentleman , and that we had been un ...
... live with me . Not like people at the end of the town , we dine at one o'clock . But I never take any body without a character ; what friends do you come of ? I then told her that my father was a gentleman , and that we had been un ...
Page 86
... lives . For without entering into refined specula- tions , it may be shewn much easier to design than to perform . A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement , exempt from the enticements of hope ...
... lives . For without entering into refined specula- tions , it may be shewn much easier to design than to perform . A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement , exempt from the enticements of hope ...
Page 104
... live in the town like a lion in his desert , or an eagle on his rock , too great for friendship or society , and con- demned to solitude , by unhappy elevation and dread- ed ascendency . Nor is my character only formidable to others ...
... live in the town like a lion in his desert , or an eagle on his rock , too great for friendship or society , and con- demned to solitude , by unhappy elevation and dread- ed ascendency . Nor is my character only formidable to others ...
Page 105
... live , in consequence of having given too great proofs of a predominant genius , in the so- litude of a hermit , with the anxiety of a miser , and the caution of an outlaw ; afraid to shew my face , lest it should be copied ; afraid to ...
... live , in consequence of having given too great proofs of a predominant genius , in the so- litude of a hermit , with the anxiety of a miser , and the caution of an outlaw ; afraid to shew my face , lest it should be copied ; afraid to ...
Page 106
... live in doubt and fear , To juggling priests for oracles repair ; One certain hour of death to each decreed , My fixt , my certain soul , from doubt has freed . ROWE . Ir is recorded of some eastern monarch , that he kept an officer in ...
... live in doubt and fear , To juggling priests for oracles repair ; One certain hour of death to each decreed , My fixt , my certain soul , from doubt has freed . ROWE . Ir is recorded of some eastern monarch , that he kept an officer in ...
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Page 260 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 25 - I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions of things shall bring upon it, may by conquering some calamities, and enduring others, teach us what we may hope, and what we can perform.
Page 49 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 22 - But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man, young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part.
Page 23 - If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.
Page 23 - ... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue.
Page 98 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Page 55 - Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succour...
Page 63 - It is surely not to be observed without indignation, that men may be found of minds mean enough to be satisfied with this treatment; wretches who are proud to obtain the privilege of madmen...
Page 277 - Infinite goodness is the source of created existence ; the proper tendency of every rational being, from the highest order of raptured seraphs, to the meanest rank of men, is to rise incessantly from lower degrees of happiness to higher. They have each faculties assigned them for various orders of delights.