The RamblerAlexander Chalmers Longman & Rees, 1817 - English essays |
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... influence to be an only son , born to the apparent prospect of a large for- tune , and allotted to my parents at that time of life when satiety of common diversions allows the mind to indulge parental affection with greater intenseness ...
... influence to be an only son , born to the apparent prospect of a large for- tune , and allotted to my parents at that time of life when satiety of common diversions allows the mind to indulge parental affection with greater intenseness ...
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Alexander Chalmers. * belief of his mercy , it would have little influence upon our moral conduct . There could be no prospect of enjoying the protection or regard of him , whom the least deviation from rectitude made inexorable for ever ...
Alexander Chalmers. * belief of his mercy , it would have little influence upon our moral conduct . There could be no prospect of enjoying the protection or regard of him , whom the least deviation from rectitude made inexorable for ever ...
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... influence . They that have grown old in a single state are generally to be found morose , fretful , and captious ; tenacious of their own practices and maxims ; soon offended by contradiction or negligence ; and im- patient of any ...
... influence . They that have grown old in a single state are generally to be found morose , fretful , and captious ; tenacious of their own practices and maxims ; soon offended by contradiction or negligence ; and im- patient of any ...
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... influenced often rather by example than precept , we are obliged to refute a false charge , lest we should countenance the crime which we have never commit- ted . To turn away from an accusation with superci- lious silence is equally in ...
... influenced often rather by example than precept , we are obliged to refute a false charge , lest we should countenance the crime which we have never commit- ted . To turn away from an accusation with superci- lious silence is equally in ...
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... influence weak minds to approbation ; for many are sure to find in a new acquaintance , whatever qualities report has taught them to expect ; and in more powerful and active understandings they excite curiosity , and sometimes , by a ...
... influence weak minds to approbation ; for many are sure to find in a new acquaintance , whatever qualities report has taught them to expect ; and in more powerful and active understandings they excite curiosity , and sometimes , by a ...
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Page 187 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 184 - Dcpress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives.
Page 177 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade; There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily in the common prison else enjoin'd me, Where I, a prisoner chain'd, scarce freely draw The air imprison'd also, close and damp, Unwholesome draught.
Page 203 - Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave : In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own.
Page 186 - In all her functions weary of herself, My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 207 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Page 188 - POLITICIANS have long observed, that the greatest events may be often traced back to slender causes. Petty competition or casual friendship, the prudence of a slave, or the garrulity of a woman, have hindered or promoted the most important schemes, and hastened or retarded the revolutions of empire.
Page 205 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
Page 184 - I not been thus exiled from light; As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 62 - That a garret will make every man a wit, I am very far from supposing; I know there are some who would continue blockheads even on the summit of the Andes, or on the peak of Teneriffe.