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Page 124
... as a farewell essay , some thoughts concerning pronunciation and action ,
which he lias given me leave to communicate to the public . They are chiefly
collected from his favourite author Cicero , who is known to have been an
intimate friend ...
... as a farewell essay , some thoughts concerning pronunciation and action ,
which he lias given me leave to communicate to the public . They are chiefly
collected from his favourite author Cicero , who is known to have been an
intimate friend ...
Page 129
None are moved by the sound of words but those who understand the language ;
and the sense of many things is lost upon men of a dull apprehension : but action
is a kind of universal tongue : all men are subject to the same passions , and ...
None are moved by the sound of words but those who understand the language ;
and the sense of many things is lost upon men of a dull apprehension : but action
is a kind of universal tongue : all men are subject to the same passions , and ...
Page 151
When I came to the rehearsal , I found the house so partial to one of their own
fraternity , that they gave every thing which was said such grace , emphasis , and
force in their action , that it was no easy matter to make any judgment of the ...
When I came to the rehearsal , I found the house so partial to one of their own
fraternity , that they gave every thing which was said such grace , emphasis , and
force in their action , that it was no easy matter to make any judgment of the ...
Page 239
If on the one hand we fairly weighed every circumstance , we should frequently
find them obliged to do that action we at ... If on the other hand we nicely
examined such actions as appear most dazzling to the eye , we should find most
of them ...
If on the one hand we fairly weighed every circumstance , we should frequently
find them obliged to do that action we at ... If on the other hand we nicely
examined such actions as appear most dazzling to the eye , we should find most
of them ...
Page 240
Notwithstanding this , it is perhaps impossible in a large government to distribute
rewards and punishments strictly proportioned to the merits of every action . The
Spartan commonwealth was indeed wonderfully exact in this particular ; and I do
...
Notwithstanding this , it is perhaps impossible in a large government to distribute
rewards and punishments strictly proportioned to the merits of every action . The
Spartan commonwealth was indeed wonderfully exact in this particular ; and I do
...
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Page 128 - No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. 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...
Page 126 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 128 - TO be— or not to be — that is the question ; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune — Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ; And, by opposing, end them...
Page 128 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 24 - And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent Harmony of the Universe, and the great Design and infinite Goodness of the Architect, that the Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, Ascend upward from us toward his infinite Perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards...
Page 243 - There is no question but the universe has certain bounds set to it : but when we consider that it is the work of infinite power, prompted by infinite goodness, with an infinite space...
Page 209 - The dialect of conversation is now-a-days so swelled with vanity and compliment, and so surfeited (as I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language...
Page 245 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 128 - But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 24 - ... in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that in each remove differ very little one from the other.
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| Title | The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 14 The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Alexander Chalmers |
| Author | British essayists |
| Editor | Alexander Chalmers |
| Published | 1802 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2007 |
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