The bee. Essays. An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in Europe. Prefaces and introductionsJohn Murray, 1837 |
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... Happiness in a great measure dependent on Consti- tution On the Present State of our Theatres 111. On the Use of Language History of Hypatia On Justice and Generosity .... Some Particulars relating to Father Feyjoo . 33 38 40 46 50 54 ...
... Happiness in a great measure dependent on Consti- tution On the Present State of our Theatres 111. On the Use of Language History of Hypatia On Justice and Generosity .... Some Particulars relating to Father Feyjoo . 33 38 40 46 50 54 ...
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... happiness , or his being unable to enjoy any satisfaction without making his friend Sep- timius a partner , prevailed upon him to introduce his mistress to his fellow student , which he did with all the gaiety of a man who found himself ...
... happiness , or his being unable to enjoy any satisfaction without making his friend Sep- timius a partner , prevailed upon him to introduce his mistress to his fellow student , which he did with all the gaiety of a man who found himself ...
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... happiness and ease , and left it to be engraved on his tomb , " That no circumstances are so desperate , which Providence may not relieve . " CONDITION OF THE POLES : In a Letter from a Traveller . ( 1 ) MY DEAR WILL , Cracow , Aug. 2 ...
... happiness and ease , and left it to be engraved on his tomb , " That no circumstances are so desperate , which Providence may not relieve . " CONDITION OF THE POLES : In a Letter from a Traveller . ( 1 ) MY DEAR WILL , Cracow , Aug. 2 ...
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... happiness lay beyond the Alps ; when in Italy , I found myself still in want of something , and expected to leave solicitude behind me by going into Romelia ; and now you find me turning back , still expecting ease every where , but ...
... happiness lay beyond the Alps ; when in Italy , I found myself still in want of something , and expected to leave solicitude behind me by going into Romelia ; and now you find me turning back , still expecting ease every where , but ...
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... happiness than her own . I perceived her uneasiness , and attempted to lessen it , by observing , that there was no company in the park to - day . To this she readily assented ; " and yet , " says she , " it is full enough of scrubs of ...
... happiness than her own . I perceived her uneasiness , and attempted to lessen it , by observing , that there was no company in the park to - day . To this she readily assented ; " and yet , " says she , " it is full enough of scrubs of ...
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Page iii - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Page 296 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 317 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 525 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 274 - Carmine qui tragico vilem certavit ob hircum, 220 Mox etiam agrestes Satyros nudavit, et asper Incolumi gravitate jocum tentavit : eo quod Illecebris erat et grata novitate morandus Spectator functusque sacris et potus et exlex.
Page 303 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 424 - The author, when unpatronked by the great, has naturally recourse to the bookseller. There cannot perhaps be imagined a combination more prejudicial to taste than this. It is the interest of the one to allow as little for writing, and of the other to write as much, as possible.
Page 270 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Page 424 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Page 69 - ... becomes a certain and easy conquest. The insect I am now describing lived three years ; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days.