Memoir of John Aikin, M.D.Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 |
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... taste for polite literature ! It promotes cheerfulness with inno- cence ; and by that means is an excellent guard against running into vicious pleasures , and against being unfitted by hard study and low spirits for social life . Its ...
... taste for polite literature ! It promotes cheerfulness with inno- cence ; and by that means is an excellent guard against running into vicious pleasures , and against being unfitted by hard study and low spirits for social life . Its ...
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... taste had banished them almost entirely both from the stage and the closet . He also began to occupy himself in forming his collection of the choicest songs in our language ; and he frequently exer- cised his own pen , both in verse and ...
... taste had banished them almost entirely both from the stage and the closet . He also began to occupy himself in forming his collection of the choicest songs in our language ; and he frequently exer- cised his own pen , both in verse and ...
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... taste for the objects of natural history , which was not only a source of pure and elevated enjoyment to himself through all the periods of advancing life , but the inspirer of some of the most agreeable and instructive portions of his ...
... taste for the objects of natural history , which was not only a source of pure and elevated enjoyment to himself through all the periods of advancing life , but the inspirer of some of the most agreeable and instructive portions of his ...
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... tastes , pursuits and connections , and , above all , by a marked opposition both of political and religious sentiments , when party contests ran the highest ; which , nevertheless , through all the mutations of half a century , stood ...
... tastes , pursuits and connections , and , above all , by a marked opposition both of political and religious sentiments , when party contests ran the highest ; which , nevertheless , through all the mutations of half a century , stood ...
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... taste and feeling , heightened by classical refinement , which is the general character of his critical works . The selection of songs exhibited some of the brightest gems of English poetry , carefully separated from all baser ...
... taste and feeling , heightened by classical refinement , which is the general character of his critical works . The selection of songs exhibited some of the brightest gems of English poetry , carefully separated from all baser ...
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Page 278 - Ceres' bounty spread, Uprears some ancient oak his rev'rend head ; Chaplets and sacred gifts his boughs adorn, And spoils of war by mighty heroes worn. But the first vigour of his root now gone, He stands dependent on his weight alone; All bare his naked branches are display'd, And with his leafless trunk he forms a shade: Yet though the winds his ruin daily threat, As every blast would heave him from his seat ; Though thousand fairer trees the field supplies, That...
Page 276 - Ac velut annoso validam cum robore quercum Alpini Boreae nunc hinc nunc flatibus illinc Eruere inter se certant; it stridor, et...
Page 348 - ... or parallelism. At this time he likewise augmented his fund for Scripture interpretation by the acquisition of various Oriental dialects. After quitting Warrington, at the dissolution of the academy, he took up his residence successively...
Page 165 - I confess myself decidedly of the opinion of those who would rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application, are not sexual qualities ; they belong to mankind — to all who have duties to perform and evils to endure.
Page 388 - About eight o'clock he desired to have three pamphlets, which had been looked out by his directions the evening before. He then dictated, as clearly and distinctly as he had ever done in his life, the additions and alterations which -he wished to have made in each. Mr.
Page 387 - I was going on to read to the end of the chapter, but he stopped me at the 45th verse. He dwelt for some time on the advantage he had derived from reading the scriptures daily, and advised me to do the same, saying that it would prove to me, as it had done to him, a source of the purest pleasure. He desired me to reach him a pamphlet which was at his bed's head, Simpson on The Duration of Future Punishment. "It will be a source of satisfaction to you to read that pamphlet...
Page 388 - I then took a pen and ink to his. bed-side. He then repeated over again, nearly word for word, what he had before said ; and when I had done, I rea.d it over to him. He said, "That is right ; I have now done.
Page 350 - ... throughout life than he. Although his principles had induced him to renounce his clerical office in the church of England, and he had become a...
Page 394 - A pamphlet which appeared in 1793, under the title of A Letter Commercial and Political addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, by Jasper Wilson, Esq.
Page 354 - ... and improvements, and that exquisite feeling of particular beauties, which distinguish him as an annotator of the writers of Greece and Rome. As a classical editor he appeared in a selection from the Greek tragedians, in editions of Horace, Virgil, Bion, and Moschus, and, finally, in his Lucretius, — a vast performance, which alone might seem the labour of many industrious years.