The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, כרך 21R. Griffiths, 1759 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 2
... give fome account of what he has advanced . He fets out with obferving , that how selfish foever man may be fuppofed , there are evidently fome principles in his nature , which intereft him in the fortune of others , and render their ...
... give fome account of what he has advanced . He fets out with obferving , that how selfish foever man may be fuppofed , there are evidently fome principles in his nature , which intereft him in the fortune of others , and render their ...
עמוד 6
... give an inftance in things of a very frivolous nature , because in them the judgments of mankind are lefs apt to be pervert- ed by wrong fyftems . We may often approve of a jeft , and , think the laughter of the company quite juft and ...
... give an inftance in things of a very frivolous nature , because in them the judgments of mankind are lefs apt to be pervert- ed by wrong fyftems . We may often approve of a jeft , and , think the laughter of the company quite juft and ...
עמוד 14
... give occafion to , that the one could never be any ba- lance to the other , unless it was fupported by the fense of propriety , by the confcioufnefs that we merited the esteem ⚫ and approbation of every body , by acting in the one way ...
... give occafion to , that the one could never be any ba- lance to the other , unless it was fupported by the fense of propriety , by the confcioufnefs that we merited the esteem ⚫ and approbation of every body , by acting in the one way ...
עמוד 15
... give reputation to a certain ' degree of diforder , and on the contrary , discountenance • qualities which deferve efteem . In the reign of Charles II • a degree of licentiousness was deemed the characteristic of a liberal education ...
... give reputation to a certain ' degree of diforder , and on the contrary , discountenance • qualities which deferve efteem . In the reign of Charles II • a degree of licentiousness was deemed the characteristic of a liberal education ...
עמוד 18
... give him any juft ground of offence . In a word , without any partiality to the author , he is one of the most elegant and agreeable writers , upon morals , that we are acquainted with . Mifcellaneous Pieces of M. de Secondat , Baron de ...
... give him any juft ground of offence . In a word , without any partiality to the author , he is one of the most elegant and agreeable writers , upon morals , that we are acquainted with . Mifcellaneous Pieces of M. de Secondat , Baron de ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affertion againſt alfo anfwer appears arife Author becauſe body cafe caufe cauſe Chriftians cife circumftances confequence confiderable confidered confifts conftitution deferve defign defire difcourfe difcovered difpofition diftances diftinct Effay eftate eſtabliſhed exercife fafe faid fame fatire fays fecond feems fenfe fenfible fent fentiments ferve fervice feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fometimes foon fpirit ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport fyftem genius give greateſt Hiftory himſelf honour increaſe inftance intereft itſelf juft King knowlege laft leaft lefs Letter likewife Lord manner meaſure moft moſt motion muft muſt nature neceffary obferves occafion ourſelves paffed paffions perfon philofophical pleaſure pofitive prefent principles propofed publiſhed puniſhment purpoſe quantity readers reafon refpect ſeems ſhall ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion tranflation truth underſtanding univerfally uſe whofe whole Writer
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 205 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repair'd with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies — alas!
עמוד 25 - ... his humanity, courtesy and affability was such, that he would have been thought to have been bred in the best courts, but that his good nature, charity and delight in doing good, and in communicating all he knew, exceeded that breeding.
עמוד 301 - From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
עמוד 205 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
עמוד 541 - All the dexterity is in the good cookery and management of them...
עמוד 25 - His style in all his writings seems harsh and sometimes obscure, which is not wholly to be imputed to the abstruse subjects of which he commonly treated, out of the paths trod by other men, but to a little undervaluing the beauty of a...
עמוד 203 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
עמוד 547 - IMAGINE to yourself a little squat, uncourtly figure of a Doctor Slop, of about four feet and a half perpendicular height, with a breadth of back, and a sesquipedality of belly, which might have done honour to a Serjeant in the horse-guards.
עמוד 112 - ... double of that by the water ; for the image of the object, though not at all refracted, was yet as much infected with prifmatic colours, as if it had been feen through n glafs wedge only, whofe refracting angle was near thirty degrees.
עמוד 188 - Twas from the bottle King deriv'd his wit, Drank till he could not talk, and then he writ. Let no coiPd ferjeant touch the facred juice, But leave it to the bards for better ufe : Let the grave judges too the glafs forbear, Who never fing and dance but once a year. This truth once known, our poets take the hint...