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Page 15 - would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the" power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,
Page 5 - a bad way. When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, ' Your pulse is in greater disorder than it should be, from the degree of fever which you have: is your mind at ease ?' Goldsmith answered it was not." After dinner, Mrs. Butter went with me to see the silk-mill which Mr. John Lombe had 2 had a patent
Page 380 - the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, " We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Page 14 - WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the
Page 394 - and laugh if you dare. We all sat composed as at a funeral. He and I walked away together; we stopped a little while by the rails of the Adelphi, looking on the Thames, and I said to him with some emotion, that I was now thinking of two friends
Page 136 - It is neither pleasing, nor sleep; it is nothing. Now mere existence is so much better than nothing, that one would rather exist even in pain, than not exist." BOSWELL. " If annihilation be nothing, then existing in pain is not a comparative state, but is a positive evil, which I cannot
Page 254 - Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way."' You may be wise in your study in the morning, and gay in company at a tavern in the evening. Every man is to take care of his own wisdom and his
Page 79 - 1 Pope thus introduces this story: " Faith in such case if you should prosecute, I think Sir Godfrey should decide the suit, Who sent the thief who stole the cash away, And punish'd him that put it in his way." Imitations of Horace, Book II. Epist. ii.