The Prosaic Garland: Consisting of Upwards of Two-hundred Pieces Selected from the Works of the Distinguished Writers of the Present AgeJ. Cundee, 1807 - 260 páginas |
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... imagine that they shall find mankind ready to pay homage to their knowledge , and to crowd about them for instruction . They therefore step out from their cells into the open world , with all the confidence of authority and dignity of ...
... imagine that they shall find mankind ready to pay homage to their knowledge , and to crowd about them for instruction . They therefore step out from their cells into the open world , with all the confidence of authority and dignity of ...
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... imagine ; we have not yet set about consi- dering its ancient and modern buildings with attention , but have already taken a slight tran- sient view of some of the most remarkable . St. Peter's I saw the day after we arrived , and was ...
... imagine ; we have not yet set about consi- dering its ancient and modern buildings with attention , but have already taken a slight tran- sient view of some of the most remarkable . St. Peter's I saw the day after we arrived , and was ...
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... imagine that I think less than you do that a pleasing re- tirement may improve the virtue of your pos terity , by drawing them sometimes from busy to contemplative life . In a sweet retirement , I imagine , the mind keeps time to the ...
... imagine that I think less than you do that a pleasing re- tirement may improve the virtue of your pos terity , by drawing them sometimes from busy to contemplative life . In a sweet retirement , I imagine , the mind keeps time to the ...
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... imagine , that he was glad to have found an occasion of dying in his proper character . On the whole , his life was rather admirable , than amiable ; fit to be praised , rather than imitated .-- Middleton . " MILTON HOLDS so large a ...
... imagine , that he was glad to have found an occasion of dying in his proper character . On the whole , his life was rather admirable , than amiable ; fit to be praised , rather than imitated .-- Middleton . " MILTON HOLDS so large a ...
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... imagine it was destined to intercept . To say how thy influence is seen on earth , would be to teach the meanest what he knows already . Suffice it but to mention , fields of arable and pasture ; lawns , and groves , and gardens , and ...
... imagine it was destined to intercept . To say how thy influence is seen on earth , would be to teach the meanest what he knows already . Suffice it but to mention , fields of arable and pasture ; lawns , and groves , and gardens , and ...
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Página 76 - Europe — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected,...
Página 132 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business; to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands...
Página 70 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy. He was a sincere and zealous Christian, of high Church of England and monarchical principles, which he would not tamely suffer to be questioned ; and had, perhaps, at an early period, narrowed his mind somewhat too much, both as to religion and politics.
Página 92 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, creator of heaven and earth?
Página 70 - So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Página 39 - ... and bidding his beads for the souls of his benefactors, interred in that venerable pile that lies beneath him. Beyond it (the meadow still descending) nods a thicket of oaks that mask the building, and have excluded a view too garish and luxuriant for a holy eye ; only on either hand they leave an.
Página 51 - ... more liable in general to err than man, but in general, also, more virtuous, and performing more good...
Página 47 - ... each other. With money, therefore, he provided soldiers, and with soldiers extorted money ; and was of all men the most rapacious in plundering both friends and foes, — sparing neither prince, nor state, nor temple, nor even private persons who were known to possess any share of treasure. His great abilities would necessarily have made him one of the first citizens of Rome ; but disdaining the condition of a subject, he could never rest till he had made himself a monarch.
Página 92 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early on the morrow, and go on thy way.
Página 194 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.