 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...lives in general, and particularly of Pamela • with a word by the by of Colley Cibbcr, and othtrt. IT is a trite but true observation, that examples...blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praise- worthy. Here emulation most effectually operates upon us, and inspires bur imitation in an... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1821 - 850 pages
...writing Uva in general, and particularly of Pamela ; with a word by the by of Colley fibber, and othtrt. IT is a trite but true observation, that examples...precepts ; and if this be just in what is odious and bkmeablc, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praise-worthy. Here emulation most effectually... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 506 pages
...writing lices in general, and particularly of Pamela: with a word by the by of Colley Cibber and otkerf. IT is a trite but true observation, that examples...inspires our imitation in an irresistible manner. f A good man therefore is a standing lesson to all his acquainti ance, and of far greater use in that... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 518 pages
...ANDREWS. BOOK L CHAPTER I. OJ writing liva in general, and particularly of Pamela : vith a word by the by of Colley Cibber and others. IT is a trite but true...precepts : and if this be just in what is odious and blamcable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually... | |
 | Henri van Laun - French language - 1863 - 312 pages
...much that is really excellent. — SCOTT. 16. It was necessary to make a choice. — MACAULAY. 17. It is a trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts, — FIELDING. 18. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. — GRAY. 19. What you have done... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - English language - 1864 - 522 pages
...©ubfjtantibfa^e. 'T is as impossible That he 's mdrown'd, as he that sleeps here, swims (SHAKSP., Temp. 2, 1.). It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts (FIELD., J. Andr. 1, 1.). Though it is true that our ancestor ofbletsed memory, the Rhinegrave Gottfried,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1874 - 510 pages
...'T is as impossible That he '« undrovMi'd, as he that sleeps here, swims (SiiAKSi'., Temp. 2, 1.). It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts (FIELD., J. Andr. 1, 1.) Though it is true that our ancestor of blessed, memory, the Rhinegrave Gottfried,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - English language - 1874 - 512 pages
...continuous, or as returning from time to time, or one apparently abstracts from any sphere of time. It t» a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts (FIELD., J. Andr. 1,1). I printed — other children do the same (В\-н. p. 311.). It is one of the... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 552 pages
...BOOK I. CHAPTER I. OF WRITING LIVES IN GENERAL, AND PARTICULARLY OF PAMELA ; WITH A WORD BY THE BY OF COLLEY CIBBER AND OTHERS. IT is a trite but true...precepts : and if this be just in what is odious and blamable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 538 pages
...I. OF WRITING LIVES IN GENERAL, AND PARTICULARLY OF PAMELA; WITH A WORD BY THE BY OF COLLEY GIBBER AND OTHERS. IT is a trite but true observation that...precepts : and if this be just in what is odious and blamable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually... | |
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IT is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. 
