Hypocrisy: A Satire, in Three Books. Book the FirstT. Smith, 1812 - 296 pàgines |
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Pàgina 21
... learned ; or to use another favourite expression of his , " what he did know , and what they do not know , would make a large Book ! " * I have heard my Father relate the following anecdote , it may be authentic , as he was extremely ...
... learned ; or to use another favourite expression of his , " what he did know , and what they do not know , would make a large Book ! " * I have heard my Father relate the following anecdote , it may be authentic , as he was extremely ...
Pàgina 26
... learned contemporary ! of Robertson ! Hume ! and Gibbon ! The Passage is curious , here it is , " Of some late writers of History in Britain I shall say nothing ; I read not to find fault , but to admire and be pleased . And when I ...
... learned contemporary ! of Robertson ! Hume ! and Gibbon ! The Passage is curious , here it is , " Of some late writers of History in Britain I shall say nothing ; I read not to find fault , but to admire and be pleased . And when I ...
Pàgina 86
... learned monsters to revive , Yet , what mad systems will not Scholars frame , Whose goad is vanity , whose object fame ; To far Angola see Monboddo sail , To prove Men , Monkeys , ―had they but a Tail , † * Garrick , when at the height ...
... learned monsters to revive , Yet , what mad systems will not Scholars frame , Whose goad is vanity , whose object fame ; To far Angola see Monboddo sail , To prove Men , Monkeys , ―had they but a Tail , † * Garrick , when at the height ...
Pàgina 88
... learned monsters to revive , Yet , what mad systems will not Scholars frame , Whose goad is vanity , whose object fame ; To far Angola see Monboddo sail , --- To prove Men , Monkeys , had they but a Tail , † * Garrick , when at the ...
... learned monsters to revive , Yet , what mad systems will not Scholars frame , Whose goad is vanity , whose object fame ; To far Angola see Monboddo sail , --- To prove Men , Monkeys , had they but a Tail , † * Garrick , when at the ...
Pàgina 150
... learned , nor Hooker's self profound ; In Wilson's life their envy spied a blot , Though the recording Angel saw no spot . Their Voice , that bolt of heaven , pierced Papal Rome , Braved her anathemas , dispelled her gloom , Struck the ...
... learned , nor Hooker's self profound ; In Wilson's life their envy spied a blot , Though the recording Angel saw no spot . Their Voice , that bolt of heaven , pierced Papal Rome , Braved her anathemas , dispelled her gloom , Struck the ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Hypocrisy. a Satire, in Three Books. Book the First C C 1780?-1832 Colton Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
Hypocrisy. a Satire, in Three Books. Book the First C. C. (Charles Caleb) Colton Previsualització no disponible - 2012 |
Hypocrisy a Satire, in Three Books: Book the First (Classic Reprint) C. Colton Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 182 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing...
Pàgina 218 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Pàgina 230 - In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself.
Pàgina 182 - Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy ; Then swell with pride, and must be titled gods, Great Benefactors of Mankind, Deliverers, Worshipped with temple, priest, and sacrifice?
Pàgina 286 - ... warmest patriots have in their turn been invested with the lawful and unlawful authority of the crown, and though other reliefs or improvements have been held forth to the people, yet that no one man in office has ever promoted or encouraged a bill for shortening the duration of parliaments, but that (whoever was minister) the opposition to this measure, ever since the septennial act passed, has been constant and uniform on the part of government. You cannot but conclude, without ihe possibility...
Pàgina 64 - Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low: To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful; yet he...
Pàgina 205 - Wherefore things ordained by them as necessary to salvation have neither strength nor authority, unless it may be declared that they be taken out of holy Scripture.
Pàgina 224 - If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed.
Pàgina 175 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Pàgina 242 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost, a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.