Dissertations Moral and Critical, Volume 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 |
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... papers , written a good while ago ; which several perfons , who had read them , were pleased to approve , and had advised me to publish . Some of these are contained contained in these volumes : others may pof- fibly appear.
... papers , written a good while ago ; which several perfons , who had read them , were pleased to approve , and had advised me to publish . Some of these are contained contained in these volumes : others may pof- fibly appear.
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James Beattie. contained in these volumes : others may pof- fibly appear hereafter . They were at first compofed in a different form : being part of a Course of Prelections , read to those Young Gentlemen , whom it is my bufinefs to ...
James Beattie. contained in these volumes : others may pof- fibly appear hereafter . They were at first compofed in a different form : being part of a Course of Prelections , read to those Young Gentlemen , whom it is my bufinefs to ...
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... appear for the moft part to be the ef- fect of fome bodily fenfation . To a certain de- gree they are docile , and acquire experience ; but all is , or feems to be , the refult of habit , cq- operating with inftinct . Give a brute his ...
... appear for the moft part to be the ef- fect of fome bodily fenfation . To a certain de- gree they are docile , and acquire experience ; but all is , or feems to be , the refult of habit , cq- operating with inftinct . Give a brute his ...
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... appear . When , therefore , we take up a book , with a view to profit by it , we ought to lay all other business afide , and prevent , as much as poffible , the in- trufion of impertinent ideas . This will not only affift Memory , but ...
... appear . When , therefore , we take up a book , with a view to profit by it , we ought to lay all other business afide , and prevent , as much as poffible , the in- trufion of impertinent ideas . This will not only affift Memory , but ...
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... - view before us , to be approved if we find them right , and condemned and rectified where they appear to have been wrong , are recommended by the the divine and the philofopher , as indifpenfably requifite to Chap . III . 47 OF MEMORY .
... - view before us , to be approved if we find them right , and condemned and rectified where they appear to have been wrong , are recommended by the the divine and the philofopher , as indifpenfably requifite to Chap . III . 47 OF MEMORY .
Palavras e frases frequentes
adjective adverbs Æneid affirmation affociated alfo alſo antient aorift appear beauty becauſe cafe called caufe Cicero confequently confidered defire denotes difcourfe diftinct diftinguished dreams effential elegant English expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fatire fecond fecondly feem feen fenfe fentence fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fign fignify fimple firft firſt fleep fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpecies fpeech fpoken ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fyllables Grammarians Greek himſelf human ideas imagination itſelf laft language Latin learned leaſt lefs meaning meaſure Memory mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary noun obferved occafion paffage paffions paffive pafs paft participle paſt perfon philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet poffible pofition prefent prepofitions preterite profe pronoun purpoſe racter reafon refpect rife ſpeak tafte tenfes thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion tive tongue trochees underſtand uſe verb verfe Virgil whofe words writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 334 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 188 - The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
Página 392 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Página 382 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms...
Página 270 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth, in a part of the army which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in love with an agreeable young woman, of a good family in those parts, and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received, which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate. We were in a calm evening...
Página 270 - In the midst of these our innocent endearments, she snatched a paper of verses out of my hand, and ran away with them. I was following her, when on a...
Página 354 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly in their hortatives...
Página 213 - So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts.
Página 271 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
Página 420 - It is one of the great beauties of poetry to make hard things intelligible, and to deliver what is abstruse of itself in such easy language as may be understood by ordinary readers...