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... knowledge , and trust for the reward of their labours to the judgment and gra- titude of posterity . An assurance of unfading laurels , and immortal re- putation , is the settled reciprocation of civility between amicable writers . To ...
... knowledge , and trust for the reward of their labours to the judgment and gra- titude of posterity . An assurance of unfading laurels , and immortal re- putation , is the settled reciprocation of civility between amicable writers . To ...
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... knowledge , the zealot animates his passion , and every man is desirous to inform himself concern- ing affairs so vehemently agitated and variously repre- sented . It is scarcely to be imagined , through how many A 2 THE RAMBLER . 5 and ...
... knowledge , the zealot animates his passion , and every man is desirous to inform himself concern- ing affairs so vehemently agitated and variously repre- sented . It is scarcely to be imagined , through how many A 2 THE RAMBLER . 5 and ...
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... knowledge , and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and persever- ance , than from violent efforts , and sudden desires ; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty , and desires , which , if they ...
... knowledge , and discover how much more is to be hoped from frequency and persever- ance , than from violent efforts , and sudden desires ; efforts which are soon remitted when they encounter difficulty , and desires , which , if they ...
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... knowledge by short flights , between each of which the mind may lie at rest . For every single act of progression a short time is sufficient ; and it is only necessary , that whenever that time is afforded , it will be well employed ...
... knowledge by short flights , between each of which the mind may lie at rest . For every single act of progression a short time is sufficient ; and it is only necessary , that whenever that time is afforded , it will be well employed ...
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... knowledge of the world , such application to books , that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes . How this proficiency was obtained he sufficiently discovers , by informing us , that the Praise of Folly , one of ...
... knowledge of the world , such application to books , that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes . How this proficiency was obtained he sufficiently discovers , by informing us , that the Praise of Folly , one of ...
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Page 184 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 180 - And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 202 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Page 177 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Page 174 - From off the altar, where an offering burn'd, As in a fiery column charioting His godlike presence, and from some great act Or benefit reveal'd to Abraham's race? Why was my breeding order'd and prescrib'd As of a person separate to God...
Page 13 - That its greater part is covered by the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the rest some is encumbered with naked mountains, and some lost under barren sands ; some scorched with unintermitted heat, and some petrified with perpetual frost ; so that only a few regions remain for the production of fruits, the pasture of cattle, and the accommodation of man.
Page 49 - The obligations to assist the exercise of public justice are indeed strong: but they will certainly be overpowered by tenderness for life. What is punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution, will be seldom discovered;. and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime, till they deserve death, because, if they had been sooner prosecuted, they would have suffered death before they deserved it.
Page 107 - twill not be your best advice: 'Twill only give me pains of writing twice. You know you must obey me, soon or late: Why should you vainly struggle with your fate?
Page 4 - No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditation and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue...
Page 165 - To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not to be found in any system of philosophy, it may be necessary to consider, that though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments, and qualities more easily communicable to those about us.