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... precepts extorted by sense and virtue from an ancient writer , by no means eminent for chastity of thought . The same kind , though not the same degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to secure them ...
... precepts extorted by sense and virtue from an ancient writer , by no means eminent for chastity of thought . The same kind , though not the same degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to secure them ...
Pàgina 19
... precept will scarce allow us to conjecture . From anger , in its full import , protracted into malevolence , and exerted in revenge , arise , indeed , many of the evils to which the life of man is exposed . By anger operating upon power ...
... precept will scarce allow us to conjecture . From anger , in its full import , protracted into malevolence , and exerted in revenge , arise , indeed , many of the evils to which the life of man is exposed . By anger operating upon power ...
Pàgina 20
... precepts are to recommend themselves by their general use . Nor is this essay intended to expose the tragical or fatal effects even of private malignity . The anger which I propose now for my subject , is such as makes those who indulge ...
... precepts are to recommend themselves by their general use . Nor is this essay intended to expose the tragical or fatal effects even of private malignity . The anger which I propose now for my subject , is such as makes those who indulge ...
Pàgina 26
... precepts , which they lay down in solitude , safety , and tranquillity , with a mind unbiassed , and with liberty unobstructed . It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain ; the exactest vigilance 26 THE ...
... precepts , which they lay down in solitude , safety , and tranquillity , with a mind unbiassed , and with liberty unobstructed . It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain ; the exactest vigilance 26 THE ...
Pàgina 47
... precepts of moral prudence ; justified not only by the suffrage of reason , which declares that none of the gifts of heaven are to lie useless , but by the voice likewise of experience , which will soon inform us that , if we make the ...
... precepts of moral prudence ; justified not only by the suffrage of reason , which declares that none of the gifts of heaven are to lie useless , but by the voice likewise of experience , which will soon inform us that , if we make the ...
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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.