Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1792 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... idea . However , if we confider their fituation , we fhall not be furprized that they were fometimes led to fay harsh things relative to human science . In mcdern times , we have feen prejudiced and mifanthropic writers . produce ...
... idea . However , if we confider their fituation , we fhall not be furprized that they were fometimes led to fay harsh things relative to human science . In mcdern times , we have feen prejudiced and mifanthropic writers . produce ...
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... idea , which , whether well or ill founded , they seem to have very generally entertained , that Plato had received many divine truths , either directly or indirectly , from the Hebrew fcriptures . Farther to establish the value and ...
... idea , which , whether well or ill founded , they seem to have very generally entertained , that Plato had received many divine truths , either directly or indirectly , from the Hebrew fcriptures . Farther to establish the value and ...
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... idea , totally contradicted by the hiftory of mankind . There is no proof that any class of men ever acquired their knowledge in this way . The glorious fun , the refplendent moon , and fhining ftars , have indeed , in every age ...
... idea , totally contradicted by the hiftory of mankind . There is no proof that any class of men ever acquired their knowledge in this way . The glorious fun , the refplendent moon , and fhining ftars , have indeed , in every age ...
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... ideas well deferving the attention of the friends of mankind . He juftly reprobates the contempt with which the bulk of mankind has hitherto been commonly treated , both by ftatefmen and philofophers ; expatiates on the excellence of ...
... ideas well deferving the attention of the friends of mankind . He juftly reprobates the contempt with which the bulk of mankind has hitherto been commonly treated , both by ftatefmen and philofophers ; expatiates on the excellence of ...
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... ideas , to juftify to their own minds every inftance of unfaithfulness . It is one of the evils of ignorance , not to be fenfible of its own defect . You shall never perfuade an ignorant ploughman to adopt an improvement in agriculture ...
... ideas , to juftify to their own minds every inftance of unfaithfulness . It is one of the evils of ignorance , not to be fenfible of its own defect . You shall never perfuade an ignorant ploughman to adopt an improvement in agriculture ...
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Page 203 - I am much mistaken if some latent vigour would not soon give health and spirit to their eyes, and some lines drawn by the exercise of reason on the blank cheeks, which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore lost dignity to the character, or rather enable it to attain the true dignity of its nature. Virtue is not to be acquired even by speculation, much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates.
Page 78 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Page 121 - Thee, in whose hand the keys of Science dwell, The pensive portress of her holy cell ; Whose constant vigils chase the chilling damp Oblivion steals upon her vestal-lamp.
Page 79 - But his superiority over other learned men consisted chiefly in what may be called the art of thinking, the art of using his mind ; a certain continual power of seizing the useful substance of all that he knew, and exhibiting it in a clear and forcible manner; so that knowledge, which we often see to be no better than lumber in men of dull understanding, was in him true, evident, and actual wisdom.
Page 202 - ... must not be dependent on her husband's bounty for her subsistence during his life or support after his death — for how can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free?
Page 79 - ... was in him true, evident, and actual wisdom. His moral precepts are practical, for they are drawn from an intimate acquaintance with human nature. His maxims carry conviction : for they are founded on the basis of common sense, and a very attentive and minute survey of real life.
Page 75 - Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.
Page 376 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Page 77 - So morbid was his temperament that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs; when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
Page 315 - Near to a vault, which is now thirty feet below ground, and has probably been a...