The Literary Miscellany, Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals: Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ...W. Hilliard, 1805 |
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... contemplations , the mind grows torpid , and the man becomes an useless member of so- ciety . The mental faculties may lie concealed for years in the gloom of unagitated abstraction ; that kind of society LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... contemplations , the mind grows torpid , and the man becomes an useless member of so- ciety . The mental faculties may lie concealed for years in the gloom of unagitated abstraction ; that kind of society LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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... become wise by our own exertions , we seem determined not to fall short of wisdom by adopting the ignorance of our forefathers . That proud despotism of opinion , which claimed unconditional sub- mission to its dictates , because ...
... become wise by our own exertions , we seem determined not to fall short of wisdom by adopting the ignorance of our forefathers . That proud despotism of opinion , which claimed unconditional sub- mission to its dictates , because ...
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... becoming a medium of general intercourse . In taking notice of the objections , which are usually made to a classical education , it is unnecessary to advert to those , which are drawn from the absurdity of studying the dead languages ...
... becoming a medium of general intercourse . In taking notice of the objections , which are usually made to a classical education , it is unnecessary to advert to those , which are drawn from the absurdity of studying the dead languages ...
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... becomes unintelligible . From such premises we infer , a priori , the improbability , that a translation executed in the early dawn of learning , and executed too by men , who must necessarily tinge the Scrip- tures with the colours of ...
... becomes unintelligible . From such premises we infer , a priori , the improbability , that a translation executed in the early dawn of learning , and executed too by men , who must necessarily tinge the Scrip- tures with the colours of ...
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... become extremely monotonous ; and if , as one is wholly confined to dactyls and spondees , the other should intirely be made up of Iam- bic feet , the latter would unquestionably be the most te- dious . But a poet of taste will avoid ...
... become extremely monotonous ; and if , as one is wholly confined to dactyls and spondees , the other should intirely be made up of Iam- bic feet , the latter would unquestionably be the most te- dious . But a poet of taste will avoid ...
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Página 256 - Richard; no man cried, God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 71 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Página 148 - God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Página 76 - In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Página 390 - I have to offer to you, which most nearly concerns your welfare, and upon which every good and honourable purpose of your life will assuredly turn; I mean the keeping up in your heart the true sentiments of religion. If you are not right towards God, you can never be so towards man : the noblest sentiment of the human breast is here brought to the test.
Página 288 - Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves Organic Life began beneath the waves. Hence without parent by spontaneous birth Rise the first specks of animated earth; From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims, And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs.
Página 288 - First HEAT from chemic dissolution springs, And gives to matter its eccentric wings; With strong REPULSION parts the exploding mass, Melts into lymph, or kindles into gas. ATTRACTION next, as earth or air subsides, The ponderous atoms from the light divides, 240 Approaching parts with quick embrace combines, Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines.
Página 261 - Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.
Página 99 - And I will make thee like the top of a rock : thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon ; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Página 391 - ... depravation and disgrace of it. Remember the essence of religion is, a heart void of offence towards God and man ; not subtle speculative opinions, but an active vital principle of faith.