Works, Band 8W. Durell, 1811 |
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... mean and magnificent apartments feel no pleasure or pain from the comparison . Pope might ask the weed , why it was less than the oak , but the weed would never ask the question for itself . The bass and treble differ only the hearer ...
... mean and magnificent apartments feel no pleasure or pain from the comparison . Pope might ask the weed , why it was less than the oak , but the weed would never ask the question for itself . The bass and treble differ only the hearer ...
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... means the prince and the labourer , the philosopher and the peasant , are in some measure fitted for their respective situations . ' وو Much of these positions is perhaps true , and the whole paragraph might well pass without censure ...
... means the prince and the labourer , the philosopher and the peasant , are in some measure fitted for their respective situations . ' وو Much of these positions is perhaps true , and the whole paragraph might well pass without censure ...
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... means evident . Imperfection may imply privative Evil , or the absence of some good , but this privation produces no ... mean- ing grows less certain , like the petty distinctions of locality , which are of good use upon our own globe ...
... means evident . Imperfection may imply privative Evil , or the absence of some good , but this privation produces no ... mean- ing grows less certain , like the petty distinctions of locality , which are of good use upon our own globe ...
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... means our wickedness , unrestrained by the prospect of a future state , would grow so insupportable , our sufferings so intolerable by perseverance , and our pleasures so tire- some by repetition , that no being in the universe could be ...
... means our wickedness , unrestrained by the prospect of a future state , would grow so insupportable , our sufferings so intolerable by perseverance , and our pleasures so tire- some by repetition , that no being in the universe could be ...
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... means contribute to the felicity of the inhabitants of the remotest planet . How the Origin of Evil is brought nearer to human conception by any inconceivable means , I am not able to discover . We believed that the present system of ...
... means contribute to the felicity of the inhabitants of the remotest planet . How the Origin of Evil is brought nearer to human conception by any inconceivable means , I am not able to discover . We believed that the present system of ...
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Americans ancient appearance authority Boethius Boswell called castle cattle chief claim clan colonies common commonly considered curiosity danger delight dignity distance dominion Dunvegan easily elegance endeavoured enemies England English equal Erse Essay evil expected Falkland's Island favour Fort Augustus gentleman give greater ground happiness Hebrides Hebridians Highlands honour hope house of commons human Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquire Inverness king king of Spain labour laird land lately less liberty live Macdonald Maclean Macleod ment miles minister mountains Mull nation nature necessary ness never once opinion PARADISE LOST parliament passage patriot perhaps pleasure political Port Egmont produce punishment Raasay reason rich rock Scotland second sight sedition seems sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes Spaniards stone subordination suffered supposed tacksman taisch tenants thing thought tion told travelled Ulva violence vote whole
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Seite 355 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.
Seite 114 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and...
Seite 273 - Whatever is imaged in the wildest tale, if giants, dragons, and enchantment be excepted, would be felt by him, who, wandering in the mountains without a guide, or upon the sea without a pilot, should be carried amidst his terror and uncertainty, to the hospitality and elegance of Raasay or Dunvegan.
Seite 188 - We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties ; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy.
Seite 177 - Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than to believe it: but they have been taught by some master of mischief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract by the sounds of Liberty and Property, to repel by those of Popery and Slavery; and to give the great stroke by the name of Boston.
Seite 190 - HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Seite 230 - Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature and with one of the great scenes of human existence.
Seite 260 - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
Seite 114 - It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced. Those that hear of it at a distance or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph.
Seite 194 - ... necessity there is reason to complain. It is surely not without just reproach, that a nation, of which the commerce is hourly extending, and the wealth increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its Universities to moulder into dust.