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Pagina 14
... favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow me . " Hearing now for the first time of this preface or dedica- tion , I said ...
... favoured him , for I read more deliberately than usual . I had proceeded but a very little way , when he begged I would desist , for he could not follow me . " Hearing now for the first time of this preface or dedica- tion , I said ...
Pagina 19
... favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the judgment of the most august tribunal in the world ; a ...
... favour of Mr. Douglas : of whose legitimate filia- tion I was then , and am still , firmly convinced . Let me add , that no fact can be more respectably ascertained , than by the judgment of the most august tribunal in the world ; a ...
Pagina 32
... favour him , have nursed up in their bosoms principles of hatred and reasons of rejection . Anger is excited principally by pride . The pride of a common man is very little exasperated by the supposed usurpation of an acknowledged ...
... favour him , have nursed up in their bosoms principles of hatred and reasons of rejection . Anger is excited principally by pride . The pride of a common man is very little exasperated by the supposed usurpation of an acknowledged ...
Pagina 59
... favour of him . If you could , it would highly oblige me . ' " Dr. Blair requests you may be assured that he did not write to London what you said to him , and that neither by word nor letter has he made the least complaint of you ; but ...
... favour of him . If you could , it would highly oblige me . ' " Dr. Blair requests you may be assured that he did not write to London what you said to him , and that neither by word nor letter has he made the least complaint of you ; but ...
Pagina 63
... favour me with an English translation . It will be doubly kind if you comply with my request speedily . " Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them ...
... favour me with an English translation . It will be doubly kind if you comply with my request speedily . " Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's Annals of Scotland , ' are excellent . I agreed with you on every one of them ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Pagina 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pagina 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Pagina 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Pagina 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Pagina 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Pagina 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Pagina 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.