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... seem almost to have deserted the northern part of our island . The learned RUDDIMAN , piqued at a remark of PETER BURMAN , in his Preface to an edition of Buchanan's History , on the in- considerable number of Latin writers , especially ...
... seem almost to have deserted the northern part of our island . The learned RUDDIMAN , piqued at a remark of PETER BURMAN , in his Preface to an edition of Buchanan's History , on the in- considerable number of Latin writers , especially ...
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... seems to have been thought necessary by their successors to accomplish them for the duties either of an Advocate or of a Judge . We should be apt to deem it pedantry in the present day , either from the Bench or the Bar , to quote the ...
... seems to have been thought necessary by their successors to accomplish them for the duties either of an Advocate or of a Judge . We should be apt to deem it pedantry in the present day , either from the Bench or the Bar , to quote the ...
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... seems to have known no other relaxation than a change of labour . Before putting on the gown of an advocate , Mr Home's attention seems to have been considerably turned to meta- physical investigation ; and for that study , to which his ...
... seems to have known no other relaxation than a change of labour . Before putting on the gown of an advocate , Mr Home's attention seems to have been considerably turned to meta- physical investigation ; and for that study , to which his ...
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... seem to possess , and according to " the light in which they present themselves . As virtue , of all objects , is " allowed to be the most valuable , this species of philosophers paint her in " the most amiable colours ; borrowing all ...
... seem to possess , and according to " the light in which they present themselves . As virtue , of all objects , is " allowed to be the most valuable , this species of philosophers paint her in " the most amiable colours ; borrowing all ...
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... seem abstract , and even unintelligible to common readers , they " aim at the approbation of the learned and the wise ; and think themselves " sufficiently compensated for the labour of their whole lives , if they can dis- cover some ...
... seem abstract , and even unintelligible to common readers , they " aim at the approbation of the learned and the wise ; and think themselves " sufficiently compensated for the labour of their whole lives , if they can dis- cover some ...
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Pàgina 100 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Pàgina 100 - Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Pàgina 305 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all, — O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Pàgina 97 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me.
Pàgina 76 - But now the question follows, what punishment can human laws inflict on one who has withdrawn himself from their reach? They can only act upon what he has left behind him, his reputation and fortune: on the former, by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body; on...
Pàgina 306 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?
Pàgina 295 - There is a flutter or hurry of thought which attends the first perusal of any piece, and which confounds the genuine sentiment of beauty. The relation of the parts is not discerned : The true characters of style are little distinguished. The several perfections and defects seem wrapped up in a species of confusion, and present themselves indistinctly to the imagination.
Pàgina 180 - ... cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus...
Pàgina 327 - Work, on the one hand, to exhibit, he does not say, a correct map, but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and, aided by the lights which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible, to their source : and, on the other hand, from the science of human nature, to ascertain with greater precision, the radical principles of that art, whose object it is, by the use of language, to operate on...
Pàgina 264 - No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada, and this is not merely as I am a Colonist but as I am a Briton. I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are nevertheless broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.