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Page 37
... expected to grow wise on other terms than those of patience and obedience . Many of the blessings universally desired , are very frequently wanted , because most men , when they should labour , content themselves to com- plain , and ...
... expected to grow wise on other terms than those of patience and obedience . Many of the blessings universally desired , are very frequently wanted , because most men , when they should labour , content themselves to com- plain , and ...
Page 44
... expected to excel the unlettered and unenlightened even on occasions where literature is of no use , and among weak minds , loses part of his reverence , by discovering no superiority in those parts of life , in which all are ...
... expected to excel the unlettered and unenlightened even on occasions where literature is of no use , and among weak minds , loses part of his reverence , by discovering no superiority in those parts of life , in which all are ...
Page 62
... expects ( for who so much a sot Who has the times he lives in so forgot ? ) What Seneca , what Piso us'd to send , To raise or to support a sinking friend . Those godlike men , to wanting virtue kind , Bounty well plac'd , preferr'd ...
... expects ( for who so much a sot Who has the times he lives in so forgot ? ) What Seneca , what Piso us'd to send , To raise or to support a sinking friend . Those godlike men , to wanting virtue kind , Bounty well plac'd , preferr'd ...
Page 71
... expected to infest the pompous periods of declaimers , whose purpose is often only to amuse with fallacies , and change the colours of truth and falsehood ; or the musical compositions of poets , whose style is professedly figurative ...
... expected to infest the pompous periods of declaimers , whose purpose is often only to amuse with fallacies , and change the colours of truth and falsehood ; or the musical compositions of poets , whose style is professedly figurative ...
Page 83
... expected to peruse them whose passions left them leisure for abstracted truth , and whom virtue could please by its naked dignity . To some , however , I am indebted for encourage- ment , and to others for assistance . The number of my ...
... expected to peruse them whose passions left them leisure for abstracted truth , and whom virtue could please by its naked dignity . To some , however , I am indebted for encourage- ment , and to others for assistance . The number of my ...
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Page 75 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 101 - The March begins in Military State, And Nations on his Eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary Coast, And Winter barricades the Realms of Frost ; He comes, nor Want nor Cold his Course delay; — Hide, blushing Glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Page 107 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Page 82 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy by applying them to popular ideas...
Page 67 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O Sleep, O gentle Sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down. And steep my senses in forgetfulness ! Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber ; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great...
Page 223 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Page 110 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 128 - I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current, for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
Page 178 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
Page 193 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in Religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the Greatest POWER is the BEST.