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Pàgina viii
... expecting to find it dull and open to ridicule . " But I found Law quite an over- match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of Religion , after I became capable of rational enquiry . " Henceforth it was ...
... expecting to find it dull and open to ridicule . " But I found Law quite an over- match for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of Religion , after I became capable of rational enquiry . " Henceforth it was ...
Pàgina xviii
... expect , for I never had a patron before . Is not a patron , my lord , one who looks with unconcern on a man_struggling for life in the water , and , when he has reached ground , encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been ...
... expect , for I never had a patron before . Is not a patron , my lord , one who looks with unconcern on a man_struggling for life in the water , and , when he has reached ground , encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been ...
Pàgina 4
... hazard undertaken , if we had not the power of magni- fying the advantages which we persuade ourselves to expect from them . When the knight of La Mancha gravely recounts to his companion the adventures by which he is 4 THE RAMBLER .
... hazard undertaken , if we had not the power of magni- fying the advantages which we persuade ourselves to expect from them . When the knight of La Mancha gravely recounts to his companion the adventures by which he is 4 THE RAMBLER .
Pàgina 29
... expect from them not arguments against vice , or dissertations on temperance or justice , but flights of wit , and sallies of pleasantry , or , at least , acute remarks , nice distinctions , justness of sentiment , and elegance of ...
... expect from them not arguments against vice , or dissertations on temperance or justice , but flights of wit , and sallies of pleasantry , or , at least , acute remarks , nice distinctions , justness of sentiment , and elegance of ...
Pàgina 59
... expect reputation only for its reward . For this reason it is common to find men break out into rage at any insinuation to the disadvantage of their wit , who have borne with great patience reflections on their morals ; and of women it ...
... expect reputation only for its reward . For this reason it is common to find men break out into rage at any insinuation to the disadvantage of their wit , who have borne with great patience reflections on their morals ; and of women it ...
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Pàgina xvi - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pàgina 309 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Pàgina 29 - 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.
Pàgina 79 - For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Pàgina 77 - LL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of •** others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Pàgina 192 - OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we ^ are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.
Pàgina 335 - TALES AND ESSAYS. EDITED, WITH INTROduction, by Ernest Rhys. 42 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited, with Preface, by Ernest Rhys. 43 POLITICAL ORATIONS, FROM WENTWORTH TO Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by William Clarke. 44 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY Oliver Wendell Holmes. 45 THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY OLIVER Wendell Holmes. 46 THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST- TABLE.
Pàgina 80 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Pàgina 5 - What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Pàgina 157 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.