The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].Samuel Archer, 1810 |
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... , of virtue , of learning ? Both these are happy in this , that by fixing their attention on objects most important , they escape numberless little anxieties , and that tadium vite which often hangs 20 THE BRITISH PLUTARCH .
... , of virtue , of learning ? Both these are happy in this , that by fixing their attention on objects most important , they escape numberless little anxieties , and that tadium vite which often hangs 20 THE BRITISH PLUTARCH .
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... objects of this kind seems to have been the favorite bent of his mind ; and from his happy descrip- tion of the manners , he must justly be pronounced an admirable comic genius in the largest acceptance of the phrase , implying hu ...
... objects of this kind seems to have been the favorite bent of his mind ; and from his happy descrip- tion of the manners , he must justly be pronounced an admirable comic genius in the largest acceptance of the phrase , implying hu ...
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... object of his reflection , certain it is , that something did powerfully seize his imagination , so as to preclude all attention to things that lay immediately before him ; and in that deep fit of absence , Mr. Young proceeded on his ...
... object of his reflection , certain it is , that something did powerfully seize his imagination , so as to preclude all attention to things that lay immediately before him ; and in that deep fit of absence , Mr. Young proceeded on his ...
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... object ? but as a divine , and especially with relation to his acquaintance with the new Testa- ment , and with christian antiquity , perhaps he never had his équal . A new edition of Dr. Lardner's works was published in 1788 , in ...
... object ? but as a divine , and especially with relation to his acquaintance with the new Testa- ment , and with christian antiquity , perhaps he never had his équal . A new edition of Dr. Lardner's works was published in 1788 , in ...
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... Each , as it suits him , takes a separate road , Their one great object , Marriage a - la - mode ! Where titles deign with cits to have and hold , And change rich blood for more substantial gold ! And 53 THE BRITISH PLUTARCH .
... Each , as it suits him , takes a separate road , Their one great object , Marriage a - la - mode ! Where titles deign with cits to have and hold , And change rich blood for more substantial gold ! And 53 THE BRITISH PLUTARCH .
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Seite 282 - How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease ; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly...
Seite 151 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Seite 206 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Seite 278 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale ; Or press the bashful stranger to his food, And learn the luxury of doing good.
Seite 147 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 278 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Seite 92 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Seite 146 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 152 - To call into civilized alliance the wild and inhuman savage of the woods ; to delegate to the merciless Indian the defence of disputed rights, and to wage the horrors of his barbarous war against our brethren?
Seite 152 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!