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... judgment pronounced upon them , and upon the author , in the last Monthly Review . - Of Robertson him- self , it is remarkable , that he has written nothing but History . [ 1796. ] SEPT . the 24th . Read the 4 [1796.] ...
... judgment pronounced upon them , and upon the author , in the last Monthly Review . - Of Robertson him- self , it is remarkable , that he has written nothing but History . [ 1796. ] SEPT . the 24th . Read the 4 [1796.] ...
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... judgment , though slighter pretensions , would have studiously con- cealed , has depressed himself below his just level in public estimation . His infor mation is extensive ; his talents far from despicable ; and he seems so exactly ...
... judgment , though slighter pretensions , would have studiously con- cealed , has depressed himself below his just level in public estimation . His infor mation is extensive ; his talents far from despicable ; and he seems so exactly ...
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... judgment , and coloured with a glowing pencil . NOV . the 13th . Read two translations of Burgher's Leonora ; one in the Monthly Magazine for March , and one by Mr. Spencer . The latter , I conjecture , more fully conveys the sense ...
... judgment , and coloured with a glowing pencil . NOV . the 13th . Read two translations of Burgher's Leonora ; one in the Monthly Magazine for March , and one by Mr. Spencer . The latter , I conjecture , more fully conveys the sense ...
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... judgment ; and though we should allow that the author has , on many occasions , felt justly , we must confess that throughout he has reasoned very weakly . The great object of this Treatise , is , to prove , to the confusion of Des ...
... judgment ; and though we should allow that the author has , on many occasions , felt justly , we must confess that throughout he has reasoned very weakly . The great object of this Treatise , is , to prove , to the confusion of Des ...
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... judgment of maturer years . MARCH the 31st . Read Swift's Four last Years of Queen Anne ; a clear , connected detail of facts , exhibited with exquisite art ( artis est , celare artem ) to give the particular impres- sion he wished ...
... judgment of maturer years . MARCH the 31st . Read Swift's Four last Years of Queen Anne ; a clear , connected detail of facts , exhibited with exquisite art ( artis est , celare artem ) to give the particular impres- sion he wished ...
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Page 236 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years.
Page 229 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 114 - ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter?
Page 103 - I mean by the word Taste no more than that faculty or those faculties of the mind, which are affected with, or which form a judgment of, the works of imagination and the elegant arts.
Page 68 - Systems in many respects resemble machines. A machine is a little system, created to perform, as well as to connect together, in reality, those different movements and effects which the artist has occasion for. A system is an imaginary machine invented to connect together in the fancy those different movements and effects which are already in reality performed.
Page 237 - With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom all commend.
Page 9 - In short, all the symptoms which I have ever met with in History, previous to great Changes and Revolutions in Government, now exist and daily increase in France."/ Chapter III — Viaticum.
Page 123 - Laughing is as much out of fashion as pantins or bilboquets. Good folks, they have no time to laugh. There is God and the King to be pulled down first; and men and women, one and all, are devoutly employed in the demolition. They think me quite profane, for having any belief left.
Page 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.