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... equally unlike the portrait by Coxe and the portrait by Smollett . He had , undoubtedly , great talents and great virtues . He was not , indeed , like the leaders of the party which opposed his Government , a brilliant orator . He was ...
... equally unlike the portrait by Coxe and the portrait by Smollett . He had , undoubtedly , great talents and great virtues . He was not , indeed , like the leaders of the party which opposed his Government , a brilliant orator . He was ...
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... equally irrational disposition to acquiesce in every thing established . A few months back the people had been disposed to impute every crime to men in power , and to lend a ready ear to the high professions of men in opposition . They ...
... equally irrational disposition to acquiesce in every thing established . A few months back the people had been disposed to impute every crime to men in power , and to lend a ready ear to the high professions of men in opposition . They ...
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... equally common . Almost every mechanical employment , it is said , has a tendency to injure some one or other of the bodily organs of the artisan . Grinders of cutlery die of consumption ; weavers are stunted in their growth ; smiths ...
... equally common . Almost every mechanical employment , it is said , has a tendency to injure some one or other of the bodily organs of the artisan . Grinders of cutlery die of consumption ; weavers are stunted in their growth ; smiths ...
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... equally disposed to a reconciliation . He , too , had profited by his recent experience . He had found that the Court and the aristocracy , though powerful , were not every thing in the state . A strong oligarchical connexion , a great ...
... equally disposed to a reconciliation . He , too , had profited by his recent experience . He had found that the Court and the aristocracy , though powerful , were not every thing in the state . A strong oligarchical connexion , a great ...
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... equally absurd ; it is at least equally symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper : and , if it should ever become general , it will , we are satisfied , produce very prejudicial effects . Its tendency is to deprive ...
... equally absurd ; it is at least equally symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper : and , if it should ever become general , it will , we are satisfied , produce very prejudicial effects . Its tendency is to deprive ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Page 524 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted.
Page 242 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 442 - The maccaroni black-balled them as vulgar fellows. Writers the most unlike in sentiment and style — Methodists and libertines, philosophers and buffoons — were for once on the same side. It is hardly too much to say, that, during a space of about thirty years, the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described.
Page 168 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Page 242 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.