Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Τόμος 99Pub. for J. Hinton., 1796 |
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... means merely a harmless and inoffenfive character , and fome- times , perhaps , a certain artefinefs of mind , blended with fome degree of weaknefs . Confidered , however , with refpect to the female character , I would fill contemplate ...
... means merely a harmless and inoffenfive character , and fome- times , perhaps , a certain artefinefs of mind , blended with fome degree of weaknefs . Confidered , however , with refpect to the female character , I would fill contemplate ...
Σελίδα 9
... mean- ing , becomes in its progrefs perfectly unintelligible by mifapplication , and either acquires a meaning ... means . His fervants eat him out of house and home ; and do juft as they please , while all the ad- vantage he reaps ...
... mean- ing , becomes in its progrefs perfectly unintelligible by mifapplication , and either acquires a meaning ... means . His fervants eat him out of house and home ; and do juft as they please , while all the ad- vantage he reaps ...
Σελίδα 10
... means are rather nar- row - I am in years - a widower , and I have no children . I go , it is true , every evening to our club , but then we never exceed three or four fhillings -and as to housekeeping , why , when I kept house , I was ...
... means are rather nar- row - I am in years - a widower , and I have no children . I go , it is true , every evening to our club , but then we never exceed three or four fhillings -and as to housekeeping , why , when I kept house , I was ...
Σελίδα 11
... means . Between the gambler who rifks ten pounds more than he is worth , and him who rifks ten thou- fand . Between the habitual drunkard who deftroys his conftitution by cheap , and him who effects the fame purpose by expenfive liquors ...
... means . Between the gambler who rifks ten pounds more than he is worth , and him who rifks ten thou- fand . Between the habitual drunkard who deftroys his conftitution by cheap , and him who effects the fame purpose by expenfive liquors ...
Σελίδα 13
... means of fecuring our happiness is by holding converfe with men of wifdom and learning , whose writings are fo eafy of accefs , that he who fel- dom confults them must stand without all excufe . And of whatever other and more important ...
... means of fecuring our happiness is by holding converfe with men of wifdom and learning , whose writings are fo eafy of accefs , that he who fel- dom confults them must stand without all excufe . And of whatever other and more important ...
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Σελίδα 78 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Σελίδα 80 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Σελίδα 352 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Σελίδα 352 - ... magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Σελίδα 85 - He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Σελίδα 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Σελίδα 78 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops. Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Σελίδα 352 - Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Σελίδα 32 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Σελίδα 354 - The inducements of interest for observing that conduct will best be referred to your own reflections and experience. With me, a. predominant motive has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress, without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.