Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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Page 394 - With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 40 - E'en in a bishop I can spy desert; Seeker is decent, Rundel has a heart; Manners with candour are to Benson given, To Berkeley every virtue under Heaven.
Page 468 - Origen* has with singular sagacity observed, that he who believes the Scripture to have proceeded from him who is the Author of Nature, may well expect to find the same sort of difficulties in it, as are found in the constitution of Nature.
Page 84 - I know you have so much zeal and pleasure in doing kind offices to those you wish well to, that I hope you represent the hardship of the case in the strongest colours that it can possibly bear. However, as I always honoured you for your good nature, which is a very odd quality to celebrate in a man who has talents so much more shining in the eyes of the world...
Page 48 - It is impossible, I think, to look into the interior of any religious sect, without thinking better of it. I ought, indeed, to confine myself to those of Christian Europe ; but, with that limitation, it seems to me that the remark is true — whether I look at the Jansenists of Port Royal, or the Quakers in Clarkson, or the Methodists in these journals. All these sects, which appear dangerous or ridiculous at a distance, assume a much more amiable...
Page 37 - Her merit — her extraordinary merit, both as a moralist and as a woman of genius — consists in her having selected a class of virtues far more difficult to treat as the subject of fiction than others, and which had, therefore, been left by former writers to her.
Page 493 - He could not hate — he did not know how to set about it. The gall-bladder was omitted in his composition, and if he could have been persuaded into any scheme of revenging himself upon an enemy, I am sure (unless he had been narrowly watched) it would have ended in proclaiming the good qualities, and promoting the interests of his adversary.
Page 206 - He is a gentleman, steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning : brave as the sword he wears, and bold as a lion : a sure friend and an irreconcileable enemy : would lose his life readily to serve his country ; and would not do a base thing 'to save it.
Page 343 - ... has, I think, a distaste for me, which I believe to be natural to the family. I think the worse of nobody for such a feeling ; indeed, I often feel a distaste for myself; I am sure I should not esteem my own character in another person. It is more likely that I should have disrespectable or disagreeable qualities than that should have an unreasonable antipathy.
Page 391 - He thought [252 it a great and striking proof of magnanimity, that the darling point of honour of our country, the British flag itself, which " for a thousand years had braved the battle and the breeze...