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" ... with affection and esteem; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made either by real or fictitious distress; in a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands,... "
The Citizen of the World - Page 102
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1891 - 556 pages
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The citizen of the world; or, Letters from a Chinese philosopher ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 290 pages
...cemented society > we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind as our own, to regard the human face divine with affection and esteem ; he wound us...impulse, made either by real or fictitious distress ; ia a word, we were perfectly instructed in the art of giving aiuay thousands, before we were taught...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 6

1786 - 782 pages
...-CV < n - .'ч-V-" ' « çur own ; to regard the " human face " divine" with affection and efteem ; ' he wound us up to be mere machines * of pity, and rendered us incapable ot ' withflanding theflighteltimpulfemade * either by гея! or fiílítious dittrefs; in a ' word,...
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The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher ..., Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 288 pages
...all the wants of mankind as of our own ; to regard the human face divine with affetlion and efteem ; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withftanding the flighteft impulfe, made either by real or fiftious diftrefs; in a word, we were perfeftly...
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Select British Classics, Volume 1

1804 - 286 pages
...society: " we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind " as of our own ? to regard the human face divine " with affection and esteem ; he wound...by real or fictitious distress: in a word, we were per" fectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands " before we were taught the more necessary...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 314 pages
...society ; " we were taught to consider all the wants of man" kind as our own ; to regard the human face divine " with affection and esteem ; he wound..." real or fictitious distress ; in a word, we were per" fectly instructed in the art of giving away thousands " before we were taught the more necessary...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 57

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 568 pages
...mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made cither by real or fictitious distress. In a word, we were...thousands, before we were taught the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing.' — Works, vol. iL p. 103. In conversing with three different...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 522 pages
...society; we were taught to consider " all " all the wants of mankind as our own ; to regard " the human face divine with affection and esteem ; " he wound...thousands before we were taught " the more necessary qualifications of getting afar" thing. " I cannot avoid imagining, that thus refined by " his lessons...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 462 pages
...cemented society ; we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind as our own ; to regard the human face divine with affection and esteem ; he wound us...thousands before we were taught the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing. " I cannot avoid imagining, that thus refined by his lessons...
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The Citizen of the World, Volumes 1-2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 706 pages
...cemented society ; we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind as our own ; to regard the human face divine with affection and esteem ; he wound 'us...thousands before we were taught 'the more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing. ' I cannot avoid imagining, that thus refined by his lessons...
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Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friends in the East

Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 508 pages
...cemented society ; we were taught to consider all the wants of mankind as our own ; to regard the " human face divine with affection and esteem ; he " wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and ren" dered us incapable of withstanding the slightest " impulse made either by real or fictitious distress...
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