The RamblerJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... pain by its increase . What is new is oppofed , because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected , because it is not fuf- ficiently confidered , that men more frequently re- quire to be reminded than informed ...
... pain by its increase . What is new is oppofed , because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected , because it is not fuf- ficiently confidered , that men more frequently re- quire to be reminded than informed ...
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... pain . Some have advanced , without due attention to the confequences of this notion , that certain vir- tues have their correfpondent faults , and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from pro- bability . Thus men are ...
... pain . Some have advanced , without due attention to the confequences of this notion , that certain vir- tues have their correfpondent faults , and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from pro- bability . Thus men are ...
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... pain and pleasure from the regard or attention of a wife man . Such fapientia infaniens , as Horace calls the doc- trine of another fect , fuch extravagance of philofo- phy , can want neither authority nor argument for its confutation ...
... pain and pleasure from the regard or attention of a wife man . Such fapientia infaniens , as Horace calls the doc- trine of another fect , fuch extravagance of philofo- phy , can want neither authority nor argument for its confutation ...
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... pain is the confequence of fome local inconvenience , and endeavour to fly from it , as children from their shadows ; always hoping for fome more fatisfactory delight from every new fcene , and always returning home with disappointment ...
... pain is the confequence of fome local inconvenience , and endeavour to fly from it , as children from their shadows ; always hoping for fome more fatisfactory delight from every new fcene , and always returning home with disappointment ...
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... pain , to fancy that he could bear it better in any other part . Cowley having known the trou- bles and perplexities of a particular condition , readily perfuaded himself that nothing worse was to be be found , and that every alteration ...
... pain , to fancy that he could bear it better in any other part . Cowley having known the trou- bles and perplexities of a particular condition , readily perfuaded himself that nothing worse was to be be found , and that every alteration ...
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Página 26 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Página 415 - by what chance thou hast been brought hither ; I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Página 413 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.
Página 440 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
Página 416 - We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour, and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Página 22 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...
Página 381 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Página 22 - ... among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his...
Página 14 - The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths, by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions...
Página 415 - At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. He...