The Rambler. ...W. Gordon, C. Wright, and the other booksellers, 1750 |
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... reason to fear . I nune , et verfus tecum meditare canoros . Go now , and meditate thy tuneful lays . ELPHINSTON . It may not be unfit for him who makes a new entrance into the lettered world , fo far to fufpect his own powers as to ...
... reason to fear . I nune , et verfus tecum meditare canoros . Go now , and meditate thy tuneful lays . ELPHINSTON . It may not be unfit for him who makes a new entrance into the lettered world , fo far to fufpect his own powers as to ...
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... reason . My defire , ' fays he , has been for fome years paft , though the execution has been accidentally diverted , and does ftill vehemently continue , to retire myself to fome of our American planta- tions , not to feek for gold ...
... reason . My defire , ' fays he , has been for fome years paft , though the execution has been accidentally diverted , and does ftill vehemently continue , to retire myself to fome of our American planta- tions , not to feek for gold ...
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... reason to guefs , that I feldom frequent card - tables on Sundays , I shall not infilt upon an exception , which may to her appear of fo little force . My bufinefs has been to view , as opportunity was offered , every place in which ...
... reason to guefs , that I feldom frequent card - tables on Sundays , I shall not infilt upon an exception , which may to her appear of fo little force . My bufinefs has been to view , as opportunity was offered , every place in which ...
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... reason , counteracts its own purposes . A paffionate man , upon the review of his day , will have very few gratifications to offer to his pride , when he has confidered how his outrages were D 5 caufed caufed , why they were borne , and ...
... reason , counteracts its own purposes . A paffionate man , upon the review of his day , will have very few gratifications to offer to his pride , when he has confidered how his outrages were D 5 caufed caufed , why they were borne , and ...
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... reason and virtue are in the power of the wind . One motive there is of thefe loud extravagan- cies , which a man is careful to conceal from others , and does not always difcover to himfelf . He that finds his knowledge narrow , and his ...
... reason and virtue are in the power of the wind . One motive there is of thefe loud extravagan- cies , which a man is careful to conceal from others , and does not always difcover to himfelf . He that finds his knowledge narrow , and his ...
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Seite 13 - Yet there is a certain race of men, that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius ; who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving ignorance and envy the first notice of a prey.
Seite 237 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched ; this is the condition of all below the stars ; and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Seite 19 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...
Seite 18 - They are engaged in portraits of which every one knows the original, and can detect any deviation from exactness of resemblance. Other writings are safe, except from the malice of learning, but these are in danger from every common reader; as the slipper ill executed was censured by a shoemaker who happened to stop in his way at the Venus of Apelles.
Seite 17 - The works of fiction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Seite 18 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Seite 19 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Seite 259 - ... never arrives. He lies down delighted with the thoughts of to-morrow, pleases his ambition with the fame he shall acquire, or his benevolence with the good he shall confer. But in the night the skies...
Seite 238 - Providence diffused such innumerable objects of delight but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence, and be filled with gratitude to the beneficent author of it? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent is virtue and obedience; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure is pitiable ignorance or absurd perverseness.
Seite 22 - In narratives where historical veracity has no place, 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...