Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Tom 1B. Law, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell [and 31 others in London], 1797 - 1120 |
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Strona xv
... fure of its being attended to as much as it deferves ; namely , that from the fountain of real and genuine virtue , are drawn thofe fentiments which will ever be moft powerful in affecting the hearts of others . Bad as the world is ...
... fure of its being attended to as much as it deferves ; namely , that from the fountain of real and genuine virtue , are drawn thofe fentiments which will ever be moft powerful in affecting the hearts of others . Bad as the world is ...
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... fure warbled the fong of invitation . With- in fight of thefe rocks , all who failed on the ocean of Life must neceffarily pafs . Reason indeed was always at hand to steer the paffengers through a narrow outlet , by which they might ...
... fure warbled the fong of invitation . With- in fight of thefe rocks , all who failed on the ocean of Life must neceffarily pafs . Reason indeed was always at hand to steer the paffengers through a narrow outlet , by which they might ...
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... fure afcribing it to him in whom there is no fhadow of imperfection . Our reason indeed affures us , that his attributes are infinite : but the poorness of our concep- tions is fuch , that it cannot forbear setting bounds to every thing ...
... fure afcribing it to him in whom there is no fhadow of imperfection . Our reason indeed affures us , that his attributes are infinite : but the poorness of our concep- tions is fuch , that it cannot forbear setting bounds to every thing ...
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... fure at length to feel him in his di pleasure . And how dreadful is the con- dition of that creature , who is only fenfible of the being of his Creator by what he fuffers from him ! He is as effentially pre- fent in hell as in heaven ...
... fure at length to feel him in his di pleasure . And how dreadful is the con- dition of that creature , who is only fenfible of the being of his Creator by what he fuffers from him ! He is as effentially pre- fent in hell as in heaven ...
Strona 29
... fure of , and fuch a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of in- fidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , fpleen , and cavil : it ...
... fure of , and fuch a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of in- fidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , fpleen , and cavil : it ...
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Popularne fragmenty
Strona 12 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Strona 517 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Strona 32 - It is hard to personate and act a part long ; for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other.
Strona 180 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Strona 249 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Strona 22 - I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards, with no other conversation but what is made up of a few game phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots ranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of this species complaining that life is short?
Strona 28 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Strona 2 - What mean, said I, those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge, and settling upon it from time to time? I see vultures, harpies, ravens, cormorants, and among many other feathered creatures several little winged boys, that perch in great numbers upon the middle arches. These, said the Genius, are Envy, Avarice, Superstition, Despair, Love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.
Strona 21 - Several hours of the day hang upon our hands, nay we wish away whole years; and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it. If we divide the life...
Strona 537 - That the Earl of Halifax was one of the first to favour me ; of whom it is hard to say whether the advancement of the polite arts is more owing to his generosity or his example...