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Pagina 35
... present so great , that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works . In the reigns of William the Third , of Anne , and of George the First , even such men as Congreve and Addi- son would scarcely ...
... present so great , that a popular author may subsist in comfort and opulence on the profits of his works . In the reigns of William the Third , of Anne , and of George the First , even such men as Congreve and Addi- son would scarcely ...
Pagina 103
... present sincerity , espoused his cause unwillingly , and with many painful misgivings ; be- cause , though they dreaded his tyranny much , they dreaded democratic violence more . On the other side was the great body of the middle orders ...
... present sincerity , espoused his cause unwillingly , and with many painful misgivings ; be- cause , though they dreaded his tyranny much , they dreaded democratic violence more . On the other side was the great body of the middle orders ...
Pagina 112
... present drowning not to swim with the stream . But as the philosopher tells us , that , though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west , by the motion of the primum mobile , yet have they also a contrary proper motion of ...
... present drowning not to swim with the stream . But as the philosopher tells us , that , though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west , by the motion of the primum mobile , yet have they also a contrary proper motion of ...
Pagina 135
... present afford . We therefore stop here , fearing that , if we proceed , our article may swell to a bulk exceed- ing that of all other reviews , as much as Doctor Nares's book exceeds the bulk of all other histories . DUMONT'S ...
... present afford . We therefore stop here , fearing that , if we proceed , our article may swell to a bulk exceed- ing that of all other reviews , as much as Doctor Nares's book exceeds the bulk of all other histories . DUMONT'S ...
Pagina 147
... present state of France which may well excite the uneasiness of those who desire to see her free , happy , powerful , and secure . Yet if we compare the present state of France with the state in which she was forty years ago , how vast ...
... present state of France which may well excite the uneasiness of those who desire to see her free , happy , powerful , and secure . Yet if we compare the present state of France with the state in which she was forty years ago , how vast ...
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Pagina 45 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 169 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Pagina 411 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 165 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Pagina 53 - This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : " Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.
Pagina 215 - He was, unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character, the most eccentric, the most artificial, the most fastidious, the most capricious of men. His mind was a bundle of inconsistent whims and affectations. His features were covered by mask within mask. When the outer disguise of obvious affectation was removed, you were still as far as ever from seeing the real man.
Pagina 349 - England's high Chancellor, the destined heir, In his soft cradle , to his father's chair, Whose even thread the Fates spin round and full Out of their choicest and their whitest wool.
Pagina 32 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer. Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.
Pagina 297 - ... which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No...
Pagina 46 - I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?' SIR ADAM: 'But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so as to preserve a balance against the Crown.