The British Essayists, 19권Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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... fortune gives him power to reward his dependents , commonly enchants him beyond resistance : the glare of equipage , the sweets of luxury , the liberality of general promises , and softness of habitual affability , strike his senses ...
... fortune gives him power to reward his dependents , commonly enchants him beyond resistance : the glare of equipage , the sweets of luxury , the liberality of general promises , and softness of habitual affability , strike his senses ...
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... fortune has let loose to their own conduct ; who , not being chained down by their condition to a regular and stated allotment of their hours , are obliged to find themselves business or diversion , and having nothing within that can ...
... fortune has let loose to their own conduct ; who , not being chained down by their condition to a regular and stated allotment of their hours , are obliged to find themselves business or diversion , and having nothing within that can ...
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... fortune or nature have made his de- pendents . He may , by a steady perseverance in his ferocity , fright his children and harass his servants , but the rest of the world will look on and laugh ; and he will have the comfort at last of ...
... fortune or nature have made his de- pendents . He may , by a steady perseverance in his ferocity , fright his children and harass his servants , but the rest of the world will look on and laugh ; and he will have the comfort at last of ...
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... fortune by bad securities , and with her way of giving her money to every body that pretended to want it , she could have little beforehand ; therefore I might serve her ; for , with all her fine sense , she must not pretend to be nice ...
... fortune by bad securities , and with her way of giving her money to every body that pretended to want it , she could have little beforehand ; therefore I might serve her ; for , with all her fine sense , she must not pretend to be nice ...
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... fortune which was given only to virtue . All the arguments upon which a man who is telling the private affairs of another may ground his confidence of security , he must upon reflection know to be uncer- tain , because he finds them ...
... fortune which was given only to virtue . All the arguments upon which a man who is telling the private affairs of another may ground his confidence of security , he must upon reflection know to be uncer- tain , because he finds them ...
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279 페이지 - I was surprised, after the civilities of my first reception, to find, instead of the leisure and tranquillity which a rural life always promises, and, if well conducted, might always afford, a confused wildness of care, and a tumultuous hurry of diligence, by which every face was clouded, and every motion agitated.
18 페이지 - These books are written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct, and introductions into life. They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas, and therefore easily susceptible of impressions; not fixed by principles, and therefore easily following the current of fancy; not informed by experience, and consequently open to every false suggestion and partial account.
264 페이지 - Health is indeed so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly ; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasure of a few years passed in the tumults...
22 페이지 - The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared ; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.
20 페이지 - ... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue.
17 페이지 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
6 페이지 - ... and losing itself in schemes of future felicity; and that we forget the proper use of the time now in our power to provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us has been frequently remarked ; and as this practice is a commodious subject of raillery to the gay, and of declamation to the serious, it has been ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric.
230 페이지 - There is certainly no greater happiness, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
18 페이지 - ... retire to his closet, let loose his invention, and heat his mind with incredibilities ; a book was thus produced without fear of criticism, without the toil of study, without knowledge of nature, or acquaintance with life.
11 페이지 - What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.