A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various AuthorsF.C. and J. Rivington, 1809 |
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... less confounded . Where this blessed temper is the effect of deli- beration , and the observation of the folly and mad- ness of sudden passion , it constitutes the greatest perfection of wisdom . But it has in itself so much virtue and ...
... less confounded . Where this blessed temper is the effect of deli- beration , and the observation of the folly and mad- ness of sudden passion , it constitutes the greatest perfection of wisdom . But it has in itself so much virtue and ...
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... less greediness . Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning , being in them- selves all storm and tempest ; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather , welcome to all , and acceptable to all ...
... less greediness . Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning , being in them- selves all storm and tempest ; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather , welcome to all , and acceptable to all ...
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... less suspected lodgings ; but never owns to be within , when asked for . All other passions do not only betray and discover , but likewise confess themselves : the choleric man con- fesses he is angry , and the proud man confesses he is ...
... less suspected lodgings ; but never owns to be within , when asked for . All other passions do not only betray and discover , but likewise confess themselves : the choleric man con- fesses he is angry , and the proud man confesses he is ...
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... less meritorious are preferred . And it is so far true , that she seldom assaults unfortunate vir- tue , and is as seldom troubled for any success , however unworthy , that does not carry a man to a higher elevation than the envious man ...
... less meritorious are preferred . And it is so far true , that she seldom assaults unfortunate vir- tue , and is as seldom troubled for any success , however unworthy , that does not carry a man to a higher elevation than the envious man ...
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... less important arguments , and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are , like common distilled waters , flashy things . Reading makes a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man ; and therefore if a man ...
... less important arguments , and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are , like common distilled waters , flashy things . Reading makes a full man , conference a ready man , and writing an exact man ; and therefore if a man ...
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Página 9 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 118 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 18 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Página 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Página 119 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 122 - But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
Página 16 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Página 10 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Página 120 - Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love.
Página 253 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule ; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, . showing him wherein right reasoning consists.