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... whole field of life before them , untrodden and unsurveyed ; characters of every kind shot up in their way , and those of the most luxuriant growth , or most conspicuous colours , were naturally cropt by the first sickle . They that ...
... whole field of life before them , untrodden and unsurveyed ; characters of every kind shot up in their way , and those of the most luxuriant growth , or most conspicuous colours , were naturally cropt by the first sickle . They that ...
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... whole race of Idlers will feel with all the sensibility that such torpid animals can suffer . When I consider the innumerable multitudes that , having no motive of desire , or determination of will , lie freezing in perpetual inactivity ...
... whole race of Idlers will feel with all the sensibility that such torpid animals can suffer . When I consider the innumerable multitudes that , having no motive of desire , or determination of will , lie freezing in perpetual inactivity ...
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... whole week with joy , anxiety and conjecture . We know that a French ship of war was lately ta- ken by a ship of England ; but this event was suffered to burst upon us all at once , and then what we knew alrea- dy was echoed from day to ...
... whole week with joy , anxiety and conjecture . We know that a French ship of war was lately ta- ken by a ship of England ; but this event was suffered to burst upon us all at once , and then what we knew alrea- dy was echoed from day to ...
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... whole animal com- position ! " These were some of the placid blessings I pro- mised myself the enjoyment of , when I committed violence upon myself , by mustering up all my strength to set about reading you ; but I am disappointed in ...
... whole animal com- position ! " These were some of the placid blessings I pro- mised myself the enjoyment of , when I committed violence upon myself , by mustering up all my strength to set about reading you ; but I am disappointed in ...
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... whole island will be lost in the sea . He believes that king William burned Whitehall that he might steal the furniture , and that Tillotson died an atheist . Of queen Anne he speaks with more tenderness , owns that she meant well , and ...
... whole island will be lost in the sea . He believes that king William burned Whitehall that he might steal the furniture , and that Tillotson died an atheist . Of queen Anne he speaks with more tenderness , owns that she meant well , and ...
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Page 141 - Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. And let him, who purposes his own happiness, reflect, that while he forms his purpose the day rolls on, and ' the night cometh, when no man can work !
Page 96 - No species of literary men has lately been so much multiplied as the writers of news. Not many years ago the nation was content with one Gazette; but now we have not only in the metropolis papers for every morning and every evening, but almost every large town has its weekly historian, who regularly circulates his periodical intelligence...
Page 54 - It is not without reluctance that I offend the sensibility of the tender mind with images like these. If such cruelties were not practised, it were to be desired that they should not be conceived; but, since they are published every day with ostentation, let me be allowed once to mention them, since I mention them with abhorrence.
Page 129 - Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.
Page 141 - The traveller visits in age those countries through which he rambled in his youth, and hopes for merriment at the old place. The man of business, wearied with unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young.
Page 46 - ... to the projector, whose happiness is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain ; to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements ; to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances ; to the usurer, who compares the different funds ; and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking.
Page 146 - is chiefly exerted in historical pictures, and the art of the painter of portraits is often lost in the obscurity of the subject. But it is in painting as in life ; what is greatest is not always best. I should grieve to see Reynolds transfer to heroes and to goddesses, to empty splendour and to airy fiction, that art which is now employed in diffusing friendship, in renewing tenderness, in quickening the affections of the absent, and continuing the presence of the dead.
Page 87 - ... difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world ; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves ; we resolve to do right, we hope to keep our resolutions, we declare them to confirm our own hope, and fix our own inconstancy by calling witnesses of our actions; but at last habit prevails, and those whom we invited to our triumph, laugh at...
Page 36 - This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance every day is bright, and every hour is propitious to diligence.
Page 62 - THERE is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood^ every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave, and seek prey only for himself.