The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, 7권 |
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... conversation with men of judgment ) they soon . forsake them . " I must not dismiss this subject without observing , that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned has discovered the most fruitful source of wit , so there is another of ...
... conversation with men of judgment ) they soon . forsake them . " I must not dismiss this subject without observing , that as Mr. Locke in the passage abovementioned has discovered the most fruitful source of wit , so there is another of ...
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... conversation with these invisible companions , I discovered in the centre of a very dark grove a monstrous fabric built after the Gothic manner , and covered with innumerable devices in that barbarous kind of sculpture . I immediately ...
... conversation with these invisible companions , I discovered in the centre of a very dark grove a monstrous fabric built after the Gothic manner , and covered with innumerable devices in that barbarous kind of sculpture . I immediately ...
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... conversation is ne- ver so much straitened and confined as in numerous assemblies . When a multitude meet together on any subject of discourse , their debates are taken up chiefly with forms and general positions ; nay , if we come into ...
... conversation is ne- ver so much straitened and confined as in numerous assemblies . When a multitude meet together on any subject of discourse , their debates are taken up chiefly with forms and general positions ; nay , if we come into ...
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British essayists Alexander Chalmers. portion as conversation gets into clubs and knots of friends , it descends into particulars , and grows more free and communicative : but the most open , instructive , and unreserved discourse , is ...
British essayists Alexander Chalmers. portion as conversation gets into clubs and knots of friends , it descends into particulars , and grows more free and communicative : but the most open , instructive , and unreserved discourse , is ...
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... conversation ; when on a sudden some latent ill - humour breaks out upon him , which he never discovered or sus- pected at his first entering into an intimacy with him . There are several persons who in some cer- tain periods of their ...
... conversation ; when on a sudden some latent ill - humour breaks out upon him , which he never discovered or sus- pected at his first entering into an intimacy with him . There are several persons who in some cer- tain periods of their ...
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136 페이지 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
235 페이지 - ... than blemish his good qualities. As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side, and every- now and then...
225 페이지 - The ideas of goblins and sprights have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly , he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other...
232 페이지 - That cherubim, which now appears as a god to a human soul, knows very well that the period will come about in eternity, when the human soul shall be as perfect as he himself now is; nay, when she shall look down upon that degree of perfection as much as she now falls short of it.
216 페이지 - ... of his game. He hunts a pack of dogs better than any man in the country, and is very famous for finding out a hare. He is extremely well versed in all the little handicrafts of an idle man : he makes a May-fly to a miracle ; and furnishes the whole country with angle-rods.
280 페이지 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself, seconded by the applauses of the public.
232 페이지 - ... as much as she now falls short of it. It is true, the higher nature still advances, and by that means preserves his distance...
211 페이지 - ... approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
210 페이지 - I know his value, have settled upon him a good annuity for life. If he outlives me, he shall find that he was higher in my esteem than perhaps he thinks he is. He has now been with me thirty years; and, though he does...
218 페이지 - Will Wimble's is the case of many a younger brother of a great family, who had rather see their children starve like gentlemen than thrive in a trade or profession that is beneath their quality.