The Anonymous and Fugitive Essays of the Earl of Buchan: Collected from Various Periodical Works. Vol. I.Ruthven & sons, 1812 - 389 páginas |
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... respecting German Literature . - Plan of an independent Press , - 239 Hints to the Learned , 243 Gleanings of Literature , 246 -Electric Symptoms accompanying Earth- quakes , exemplified , 250 Gleanings of Literature , continued , 254 ...
... respecting German Literature . - Plan of an independent Press , - 239 Hints to the Learned , 243 Gleanings of Literature , 246 -Electric Symptoms accompanying Earth- quakes , exemplified , 250 Gleanings of Literature , continued , 254 ...
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... respect , their most faithful and obedient servant , ALBANICUS . On the Art of Idleness . HAVING often observed , with disgust , the hackneyed subjects of essayists in newspapers and magazines , not excepting those of the pro- fessed ...
... respect , their most faithful and obedient servant , ALBANICUS . On the Art of Idleness . HAVING often observed , with disgust , the hackneyed subjects of essayists in newspapers and magazines , not excepting those of the pro- fessed ...
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... respect to artless idleness , as a brand plucked out of the fire , and a living monument of mercy derived from the principles of that art , which your correspondent laudably endeavours to ex- plain . I was born , Sir , to the succession ...
... respect to artless idleness , as a brand plucked out of the fire , and a living monument of mercy derived from the principles of that art , which your correspondent laudably endeavours to ex- plain . I was born , Sir , to the succession ...
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... respect to yourselves , if dissipation , and the present reigning manners of Europe , have left any part of yourselves behind , give me leave to recommend to you the mature con- sideration of the following advice of Dean Swift in the ...
... respect to yourselves , if dissipation , and the present reigning manners of Europe , have left any part of yourselves behind , give me leave to recommend to you the mature con- sideration of the following advice of Dean Swift in the ...
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... respect to my sex , I have little doubt of your female readers paying some attention to my method of educating my daughter Alathea , as it was undertaken in consequence of my own experience , set forth my remarks on the dissertation of ...
... respect to my sex , I have little doubt of your female readers paying some attention to my method of educating my daughter Alathea , as it was undertaken in consequence of my own experience , set forth my remarks on the dissertation of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration agreeable Alathea amusement ancient appear art of idleness Ascanius attention beauty Ben Jonson charming Cicero continued Cotton library curiosity daughter dear delightful desire Drummond Dryburgh Abbey Earl of Buchan Earl of Marr earthquake Edinburgh EDITOR Epicurus Erskine excellent Fabius Rusticus father fortune Fragments of Lord France genius gentlemen George Buchanan girls give habits happy hath Hawthornden Helvidius Priscus honour human imagination improvement infinite James Foulis king king's lady learning leisure letter look Lord Bacon manner ment mind Miss Woodfords moral Morton nations nature noble objects observed philosophical pleasing pleasure political prince principles pursuits render respect Roman Scotland Scots sentiment Sir Alexander Erskine Sir James situation society spirit Stirling taste taught thing thought tion trees Trimontium ture unto Viglius virtue Walpole women worthy young youth
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Página 220 - To contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of man: And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began. Alike the busy and the gay...
Página 148 - rather a great deal men should say there " was no such man at all as Plutarch, than " that they should say there was one Plutarch, " that would eat his children as soon as they
Página 18 - There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal ; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
Página 161 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another ; he tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth them more orderly ; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words : finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Página 158 - I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Página 157 - Let thy studies be free as thy thoughts and contemplations, but fly not only upon the wings of imagination ; join sense unto reason, and experiment unto speculation, and so give life unto embryon truths, and verities yet in their chaos. There is nothing more acceptable unto the ingenious world, than this noble eluctation of truth; wherein, against the tenacity of prejudice and prescription, this century now prevaileth.
Página 358 - Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so custom'd, for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred, And temperate vapours bland, which th' only sound Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song Of birds on every bough : so much the more His wonder was to find...
Página 199 - Till out of breath he overtakes his fellows : Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave ; and, strange to tell ! Evanishes at crowing of the cock.
Página 103 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 170 - Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others ; and let the world be deceived in thee, as they are in the lights of heaven.