The Misscellaneous [sic] Works of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 1A. Donaldson and sold at his shops in London and Edinburgh, 1768 |
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Pagina viii
... just as he had read them . In the earlier parts of his life he did not read much , or at leaft many books , being unwilling , as he faid , to fill his head with what did not deserve a place there . In the fucceeding part of his life a ...
... just as he had read them . In the earlier parts of his life he did not read much , or at leaft many books , being unwilling , as he faid , to fill his head with what did not deserve a place there . In the fucceeding part of his life a ...
Pagina 2
... just as they play a game at cards , or as they would read the ftory of the Seven Champions . 2 Others there are , whofe motive to this study is nothing better , and who have the further difadvan- tage of becoming a nufance very often to ...
... just as they play a game at cards , or as they would read the ftory of the Seven Champions . 2 Others there are , whofe motive to this study is nothing better , and who have the further difadvan- tage of becoming a nufance very often to ...
Pagina 19
... just applaufes or cenfures of hiftori- ans , will have a much better and more permanent effect , than declamation , or fong , or the dry ethics of mere philofophy . In fine , to converse with hi- ftorians is to keep good company many of ...
... just applaufes or cenfures of hiftori- ans , will have a much better and more permanent effect , than declamation , or fong , or the dry ethics of mere philofophy . In fine , to converse with hi- ftorians is to keep good company many of ...
Pagina 21
... just . Neither difficulties nor dangers could check them ; and their fages had not yet difcovered , that virtues in excess degenerate into vices . Notwithstanding the beau- tiful rant which Horace puts into his mouth , I make no doubt ...
... just . Neither difficulties nor dangers could check them ; and their fages had not yet difcovered , that virtues in excess degenerate into vices . Notwithstanding the beau- tiful rant which Horace puts into his mouth , I make no doubt ...
Pagina 23
... just retributi- on . The fentence is pronounced in one cafe , as it was in the other , too late to correct or recom- penfe ; but it is pronounced in time to render thefe examples of general inftruction to mankind . Thus Cicero , that I ...
... just retributi- on . The fentence is pronounced in one cafe , as it was in the other , too late to correct or recom- penfe ; but it is pronounced in time to render thefe examples of general inftruction to mankind . Thus Cicero , that I ...
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Pagina 11 - ... met their eyes, and recalled the glorious actions of the dead, to fire the living, to excite them to imitate and even to emulate their great forefathers. The success answered the design. The virtue of one generation was transfused, by the magic of example, into several ; and a spirit of heroism was maintained through many ages of that commonwealth.
Pagina 103 - ... the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws ; and they must trace the laws of particular states, especially of their own, from the first rough sketches to the more perfect draughts ; from the first causes or occasions, that produced them, through all the effects good and bad that they produced.
Pagina 339 - ... and virtuous men; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.
Pagina 22 - I mean consists in this, that the examples which history presents to us, both of men and of events, are generally complete: the whole example is before us, and consequently the whole lesson, or sometimes the various lessons, which philosophy proposes to teach us by this example.
Pagina 19 - ... passion. But the examples which we find in history, improved by the lively descriptions, and the just applauses or censures of historians, will have a much better and more permanent effect than declamation, or song, or the dry ethics of mere philosophy.
Pagina 207 - ... centre of union that could keep together the great confederacy then forming: and how much the French feared, from his life, had appeared a few years before, in the extravagant and indecent joy they expressed on a false report of his death. A short time showed how vain the fears of some, and the...
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