The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical, Volumes 33-34T. and J. Allman, 1823 - English essays |
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... human species . It has been found hard to describe man by an ade- quate definition . Some philosophers have called him a reasonable animal ; but others have considered reason as a quality of which many creatures partake . He has been ...
... human species . It has been found hard to describe man by an ade- quate definition . Some philosophers have called him a reasonable animal ; but others have considered reason as a quality of which many creatures partake . He has been ...
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... human being acknowledges and forgets . It is gene- rally known , that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence ...
... human being acknowledges and forgets . It is gene- rally known , that he who expects much will be often disappointed ; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation , or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence ...
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... human beings ought to behold the distresses of each other , to try some expedients for their relief , and to inquire by what methods the listless may be actuated , and the empty be replenished . There are said to be pleasures in madness ...
... human beings ought to behold the distresses of each other , to try some expedients for their relief , and to inquire by what methods the listless may be actuated , and the empty be replenished . There are said to be pleasures in madness ...
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... humanity has never risen by its own power . The charity of the Mahometans is a precept which their teacher evi- dently transplanted from the doctrines of Christian- ity ; and the care with which some of the Oriental sects attend , as it ...
... humanity has never risen by its own power . The charity of the Mahometans is a precept which their teacher evi- dently transplanted from the doctrines of Christian- ity ; and the care with which some of the Oriental sects attend , as it ...
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... human affairs , must confess , that I saw the troops march with little emotion ; my thoughts were fixed upon other scenes , and the tear stole into my eyes , not for those who were going away , but for those who were left behind . We ...
... human affairs , must confess , that I saw the troops march with little emotion ; my thoughts were fixed upon other scenes , and the tear stole into my eyes , not for those who were going away , but for those who were left behind . We ...
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Page 239 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 114 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide...
Page 262 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 115 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 63 - 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. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 62 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course!
Page 62 - 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.
Page 250 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 208 - His gouvernante joined the old man and his daughter in the prayers and thanksgivings which they put up on his recovery ; for she, too, was a heretic, in the phrase of the village. The philosopher walked out with his long staff and his dog, and left them to their prayers and thanksgivings. " My master," said the old woman, — " alas ! he is not a Christian ; but he is the best of unbelievers.
Page 183 - And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too ! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as...