The British Essayists, 8권Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... greatest geniuses this age has produced * . I think we may add to the foregoing observation , the change which has happened in our language , by the abbreviation of several words that are terminated in eth , ' by substituting an s in ...
... greatest geniuses this age has produced * . I think we may add to the foregoing observation , the change which has happened in our language , by the abbreviation of several words that are terminated in eth , ' by substituting an s in ...
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... greatest liars this island has produced . I have read all the moralists upon the subject , but could never find any effect their dis- courses had upon me , but to add to my misfortune by new thoughts and ideas , and making me more ready ...
... greatest liars this island has produced . I have read all the moralists upon the subject , but could never find any effect their dis- courses had upon me , but to add to my misfortune by new thoughts and ideas , and making me more ready ...
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... greatest good or the greatest evil . Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education only , it creates an ambitious rather than a noble mind : where it is the natural bent of the prince's inclination , it prompts him to ...
... greatest good or the greatest evil . Where sovereigns have it by impressions received from education only , it creates an ambitious rather than a noble mind : where it is the natural bent of the prince's inclination , it prompts him to ...
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... greatest evil in life , which is the false notion of gallantry in love . It is , and has long been , upon a very ill foot ; but I who have been a wife forty years and was bred up in a way that has made me ever since very happy , see ...
... greatest evil in life , which is the false notion of gallantry in love . It is , and has long been , upon a very ill foot ; but I who have been a wife forty years and was bred up in a way that has made me ever since very happy , see ...
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... greatest mere man that ever breathed . But the modern discourse is written upon a subject no less than the dissolution of nature itself . Oh how glorious is the old age of that great man , who has spent his time in such contemplations ...
... greatest mere man that ever breathed . But the modern discourse is written upon a subject no less than the dissolution of nature itself . Oh how glorious is the old age of that great man , who has spent his time in such contemplations ...
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123 페이지 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is Human Life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire made up the number about an hundred.
141 페이지 - Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. Blest madman, who could every hour employ, With something new to wish, or to enjoy!
123 페이지 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see, rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other ? What thou seest...
126 페이지 - ... waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge.
125 페이지 - I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and, among many other feathered creatures, several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches.
217 페이지 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
122 페이지 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on 'the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
217 페이지 - Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
130 페이지 - There is another kind of great geniuses which I shall place in a second class, not as I think them inferior to the first, but only for distinction's sake, as they are of a different kind. This second class of great geniuses are those* that have formed themselves by rules, and submitted the greatness of their natural talents to the corrections and restraints of art.
122 페이지 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.