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... a judicial sentence , fortitude is intimidated , and wisdom confounded : resistance ΙΣ B No. 108. On the Uncertainty of Human Things III . 1 Horace , 3 Odes , xi . 45 . No. 148. SATURDAY , AUGUST 17 , 1751 . THE RAMBLER-(continued)
... a judicial sentence , fortitude is intimidated , and wisdom confounded : resistance ΙΣ B No. 108. On the Uncertainty of Human Things III . 1 Horace , 3 Odes , xi . 45 . No. 148. SATURDAY , AUGUST 17 , 1751 . THE RAMBLER-(continued)
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Samuel Johnson. No. 108. On the Uncertainty of Human Things III . The Pleasures and Advantages of Ignorance 120. The Miseries of Life 131. Singularities Censured . THE IDLER . 4. Charities and Hospitals 8. Plan of Military Discipline II ...
Samuel Johnson. No. 108. On the Uncertainty of Human Things III . The Pleasures and Advantages of Ignorance 120. The Miseries of Life 131. Singularities Censured . THE IDLER . 4. Charities and Hospitals 8. Plan of Military Discipline II ...
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... things is not always perceived . The folly or indigence of those who set their services to sale , inclines them to boast of qualifications which they do not possess , and attempt business which they do not not understand ; and they who ...
... things is not always perceived . The folly or indigence of those who set their services to sale , inclines them to boast of qualifications which they do not possess , and attempt business which they do not not understand ; and they who ...
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... thing than of that which they understand , and sink into insipidity of sentiment and meanness of expression . There prevails among men of letters an opinion that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to women ; and that ...
... thing than of that which they understand , and sink into insipidity of sentiment and meanness of expression . There prevails among men of letters an opinion that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to women ; and that ...
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... thing with elegance and facility . Theophrastus was discovered not to be a native of Athens , by so strict an adherence to the Attic dialect , as shewed that he had learned it not by custom , but by rule . A man not early formed to ...
... thing with elegance and facility . Theophrastus was discovered not to be a native of Athens , by so strict an adherence to the Attic dialect , as shewed that he had learned it not by custom , but by rule . A man not early formed to ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 107 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees:" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.