Essays, on miscellaneous subjects; with An enquiry into the present state of polite learningSamuel Archer, 1818 - 270 pages |
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... Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning ......... ..... 189 3. A View of the Obscure Ages ........ 198 4. Of the present State of Polite Learning in Italy 201 5. Of Polite Learning in Germany .. 205 6. Of Polite Learning in ...
... Causes which contribute to the Decline of Learning ......... ..... 189 3. A View of the Obscure Ages ........ 198 4. Of the present State of Polite Learning in Italy 201 5. Of Polite Learning in Germany .. 205 6. Of Polite Learning in ...
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... cause ? Our divines sele dom stoop to their mean capacities ; and they who want instruction most , find least in our religious assemblies . Whatever may become of the higher orders of man- kind , who are generally possessed of ...
... cause ? Our divines sele dom stoop to their mean capacities ; and they who want instruction most , find least in our religious assemblies . Whatever may become of the higher orders of man- kind , who are generally possessed of ...
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... cause of much greater importance before you ; a cause where not one nation , but all the world , are spectators ; tried , not before a fallible tribunal , but the awful throne of heaven , where not your temporal and transitory inte ...
... cause of much greater importance before you ; a cause where not one nation , but all the world , are spectators ; tried , not before a fallible tribunal , but the awful throne of heaven , where not your temporal and transitory inte ...
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... cause of the priest was to be tried before an assembly of priests ; and a layman was to expect redress only from their impartiality and candour . What plea then do you think the prior made to obviate this accusation ? He denied the fact ...
... cause of the priest was to be tried before an assembly of priests ; and a layman was to expect redress only from their impartiality and candour . What plea then do you think the prior made to obviate this accusation ? He denied the fact ...
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... . Have you then any cause to re- gret being born in the times you now live ? or do you still believe that human nature continues to run on de- elining every age ? If we observe the actions of REVERIE AT THE BOAR'S HEAD . 4.9.
... . Have you then any cause to re- gret being born in the times you now live ? or do you still believe that human nature continues to run on de- elining every age ? If we observe the actions of REVERIE AT THE BOAR'S HEAD . 4.9.
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Page 132 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn away/ And lose the name of action.
Page 150 - Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, <*> The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's...
Page 150 - O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 139 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 131 - To die: to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 103 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 173 - Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults of mankind, make our interest in the piece.
Page 234 - There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much as possible.
Page 233 - His simplicity exposes him to all the insidious approaches of cunning ; his sensibility, to the slightest invasions of contempt. Though possessed of fortitude to stand unmoved the expected bursts of an earthquake, yet of feelings so exquisitely poignant as to agonize under the slightest disappointment.
Page 132 - He now drops this idea, and reverts to his reasoning on death, in the course of which he owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death: the dread of something after death (That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.) This might be a good argument in a Heathen or Pagan, and such indeed...