The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 37 |
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... virtue should be followed by rewar vice by punishment . But this desire , like other , gathers new strength by opposition , and upon resistance . When , therefore , a virtuous amidst all his virtue , is represented as unhappy anxiety ...
... virtue should be followed by rewar vice by punishment . But this desire , like other , gathers new strength by opposition , and upon resistance . When , therefore , a virtuous amidst all his virtue , is represented as unhappy anxiety ...
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... virtue . It shews that , where virtue meets with calamities and disappointments , this , instead of lessening it in our estimation , only attaches us so much the more warmly to its interests ; and that , where vice is successful ...
... virtue . It shews that , where virtue meets with calamities and disappointments , this , instead of lessening it in our estimation , only attaches us so much the more warmly to its interests ; and that , where vice is successful ...
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... virtue . You , Mr. MIRROR , like some other rigid moral- ists , seem , from the general strain of your writings , to require something more towards the formation of a good man than the mere absence of evil , or the mere livery of ...
... virtue . You , Mr. MIRROR , like some other rigid moral- ists , seem , from the general strain of your writings , to require something more towards the formation of a good man than the mere absence of evil , or the mere livery of ...
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... virtue , and as comprehending the whole duty of a Christian . So ingenious are men in finding out something to put in the place of true piety and virtue ! -Neither is this confined to one res ligion or to one sect . To the same cause H ...
... virtue , and as comprehending the whole duty of a Christian . So ingenious are men in finding out something to put in the place of true piety and virtue ! -Neither is this confined to one res ligion or to one sect . To the same cause H ...
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... taught me how difficult is the attempt to instruct or reform . There is no virtue which is not nearly connected with some vice ; there is no imperfection which does not bear a near resemblance to some excellency . 114 N ° 94 . THE MIRROR .
... taught me how difficult is the attempt to instruct or reform . There is no virtue which is not nearly connected with some vice ; there is no imperfection which does not bear a near resemblance to some excellency . 114 N ° 94 . THE MIRROR .
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Página 73 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thoughts Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
Página 156 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 39 - That care, however, which watched his health was not repaid with success ; he was always more delicate, and more subject to little disorders than I; and at last, after completing his seventh year, was seized with a fever, which, in a few days, put an end to his life, and transferred to me the inheritance of my ancestors.
Página 73 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 159 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 70 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Página 222 - The idea of publishing a periodical paper in Edinburgh, took its rise in a company of gentlemen, whom particular circumstances of connection brought frequently together. Their discourse often turned upon subjects of manners, of taste, and of literature. By one of those accidental resolutions, of which the origin cannot easily be traced, it was determined to put their thoughts into writing, and to read them for the entertainment...
Página 217 - Edward's whole tenderness and attention were called forth to mitigate her grief; and, after its first transports had subsided, he carried her to London, in hopes that objects new to her, and commonly attractive to all, might contribute to remove it. With a man possessed of feelings like Sir Edward's, the affliction of Louisa gave a certain respect to his attentions.
Página 212 - He could not help expressing some surprise at the appearance of refinement in the conversation of the latter, much beyond what her situation seemed likely to confer. Her father accounted for it. She had received her education in the...
Página 154 - Expectancy and Rose of the fair State, ' The Glass of Fashion, and the Mold of Form, 4 Th' observ'd of all Observers,' placed in a situation in which even the amiable qualities of his mind serve but to aggravate his distress, and to perplex his conduct.