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... enquiry , now scarcely known but by the catalogue , and preserved only to increase the pomp of learning , without considering how many hours have been wast- ed in vain endeavours , how often imagination has an- ticipated the praises of ...
... enquiry , now scarcely known but by the catalogue , and preserved only to increase the pomp of learning , without considering how many hours have been wast- ed in vain endeavours , how often imagination has an- ticipated the praises of ...
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... enquiry are found , but seldom reward the labour of the search . Every pe- riod of time has produced these bubbles of artificial fame , which are kept up a while by the breath of fash- ion , and then break at once , and are annihilated ...
... enquiry are found , but seldom reward the labour of the search . Every pe- riod of time has produced these bubbles of artificial fame , which are kept up a while by the breath of fash- ion , and then break at once , and are annihilated ...
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... enquiry ; but perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleasing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and surfeited with intemperance of application . He that will not ...
... enquiry ; but perhaps , if it be detained by occupations less pleasing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures , and surfeited with intemperance of application . He that will not ...
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... enquiries about the privileges of a freeman , the power of the common council , the dignity of a wholesale dealer , and the grandeur of mayoralty , to which my mother assured me that many had arrived who began the world with less than ...
... enquiries about the privileges of a freeman , the power of the common council , the dignity of a wholesale dealer , and the grandeur of mayoralty , to which my mother assured me that many had arrived who began the world with less than ...
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... enquiry , of which × λQ · οἷον ἀκέομεν , ἐδέ τι ίδμεν , we can only hear the report , but which cannot influence our lives by any consequences . The truth is , that very few have leisure , from indis- pensible business , to employ their ...
... enquiry , of which × λQ · οἷον ἀκέομεν , ἐδέ τι ίδμεν , we can only hear the report , but which cannot influence our lives by any consequences . The truth is , that very few have leisure , from indis- pensible business , to employ their ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acastus acquaintance Ajax amusements Aristotle attention Aureng-Zebe bability beauty celebrated censure Charybdis common considered contempt crowd curiosity Dagon danger delight desire dignity dili discover dread easily elegance eminence endeavour enquiry envy epigram equally exer expected expence eyes fame fancy father favour fear felicity folly force fortune frequently garret genius gratify happiness hear heart honour hope hour human ignorance Iliad imagination imitation inclination indulged justly knowledge labour ladies learning lence live mankind ment mind miscarriage misery nature necessary neglect negligence ness never observed once opinion ourselves OVID Oxus panegyrist passed passions perhaps persuaded Philistines pleased pleasure praise produce prudence Pylades racter raise Rambler reason regard reproach riety Samson SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments sion solicited soon specta suffer sufficient superaddition surely thing thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue wars of Troy writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 184 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Seite 180 - And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Seite 202 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Seite 177 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Seite 174 - From off the altar, where an offering burn'd, As in a fiery column charioting His godlike presence, and from some great act Or benefit reveal'd to Abraham's race? Why was my breeding order'd and prescrib'd As of a person separate to God...
Seite 13 - That its greater part is covered by the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the rest some is encumbered with naked mountains, and some lost under barren sands ; some scorched with unintermitted heat, and some petrified with perpetual frost ; so that only a few regions remain for the production of fruits, the pasture of cattle, and the accommodation of man.
Seite 49 - The obligations to assist the exercise of public justice are indeed strong: but they will certainly be overpowered by tenderness for life. What is punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution, will be seldom discovered;. and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime, till they deserve death, because, if they had been sooner prosecuted, they would have suffered death before they deserved it.
Seite 107 - twill not be your best advice: 'Twill only give me pains of writing twice. You know you must obey me, soon or late: Why should you vainly struggle with your fate?
Seite 4 - No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditation and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue...
Seite 165 - To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not to be found in any system of philosophy, it may be necessary to consider, that though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments, and qualities more easily communicable to those about us.