The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., כרך 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 46
עמוד 42
... humanity are not sufficiently powerful to induce men to introduce such im- provement , it is now time , that the same economy and prudence , with which we watch our private concerns , were adopted in our public institutions . * Count ...
... humanity are not sufficiently powerful to induce men to introduce such im- provement , it is now time , that the same economy and prudence , with which we watch our private concerns , were adopted in our public institutions . * Count ...
עמוד 50
... human eye could be so wonderfully sharpened , as to spy out conjectures . We are certainly disposed to treat the writer and his per- formance with more , than decency ; but we were really una- ble to read the following sentence without ...
... human eye could be so wonderfully sharpened , as to spy out conjectures . We are certainly disposed to treat the writer and his per- formance with more , than decency ; but we were really una- ble to read the following sentence without ...
עמוד 71
... human nature . Besides people are frighted by phantoms of their own raising , and imposed on by words and things illjoined together . A natural death is generally the most violent . An executioner does the business more gen- tly , than ...
... human nature . Besides people are frighted by phantoms of their own raising , and imposed on by words and things illjoined together . A natural death is generally the most violent . An executioner does the business more gen- tly , than ...
עמוד 72
... human nature , not to be overawed by death . The way to be possessed of this quality to purpose is to live well . There is no such bravery , as that of a good christian . He , that can look the other world in the face , needs fear ...
... human nature , not to be overawed by death . The way to be possessed of this quality to purpose is to live well . There is no such bravery , as that of a good christian . He , that can look the other world in the face , needs fear ...
עמוד 75
... human heart , which lead men to prefer gain to godliness . In the improvement of the discourse Dr. E. has proved , that a general belief of the doctrine , that " virtue consists in " utility , " will ultimately prostrate all our ...
... human heart , which lead men to prefer gain to godliness . In the improvement of the discourse Dr. E. has proved , that a general belief of the doctrine , that " virtue consists in " utility , " will ultimately prostrate all our ...
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עמוד 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
עמוד 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
עמוד 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
עמוד 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
עמוד 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
עמוד 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
עמוד 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
עמוד 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
עמוד 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
עמוד 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...