LETTERS FROM MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER RO MRS. MONTAGU |
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Page 160 - It is indeed very possible to live in an exact observance of moral and social duties, so far as respects a popular character, and yet be totally void of real virtue. All external performances derive their true value, with respect to the soul, from the disposition from which they proceed, with regard to the Supreme Being *. Wherever his will and his approbation are made the supreme object, all talents, all opportunities, however different in their appearances, become equal possibilities for the acquirement...
Page 304 - Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Page 328 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven, but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Page 265 - I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
Page 266 - who cannot lie" has made, that all who endeavour to fulfil the conditions of happiness, shall infallibly be happy ; and convinced that He alone knows what will make us so. The general ideas of perfect health, perfect security, and perfect virtue, are sufficient to support the mind in the hours of pain and languor, to console it amidst the anxieties of precarious good, and to elevate and encourage it, amidst the humiliations of mortal frailty, vainly struggling for an entire conquest over those corruptions...
Page 61 - She was, indeed, always vexed whenever it was attributed to her, ami denied it in the strongest terms. 60 ventured to own it, though I have not denied it, It gives me great pleasure that it was at first a secret, as it helped you to that unprejudiced applause of the work,, which it might have been difficult to separate from a regard to the author. But now I think one may lawfully speak out.
Page 267 - The order and civility of modem times is indeed an inestimable blessing, and however unwilling Mr. Hume might be to allow it, is certainly the effect of Christianity. Barbarity was the disgrace of heroism, not only amongst our rude and violent ancestors, but amongst those nations which are so often extolled as abounding with examples of the highest virtue.
Page 21 - ... in that to come. I am sure you will be so kindly attentive to my solicitude about your health, as to let me hear often from you ; however short the letters may be, if they tell me that you are getting well, they will be a cordial to the heart of your truly affectionate. LETTER CXV.
Page 265 - ... grave, what inexpressible horrors must one feel, at the thought of quitting such a system of creation, as engages the attention by every form of variety, strikes by every wonder of magnificence, and charms with every grace and elegance of beauty! How terrible to close one's eyes upon the flowery earth and radiant sun, to " leave the warm precincts of the cheerful day...
Page 333 - The Beneficial Effects of Christianity on the Temporal Concerns of Mankind Proved from History and Facts...