We were told, that universal benevolence was what first 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 rendered... The Eclectic Review - Page 563edited by - 1859Full view - About this book
| John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...and rendered us incapable of with' standing the slightest impulse made either by real or ficti' tious distress : in a word, we were perfectly instructed...more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing.' Acquisitions highly primitive, and supporting what seems to have been the common fame of the Goldsmith... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 406 pages
...face divine with affection and esteem ; he wound us up to be mere machines of pity, and rendered ua incapable of withstanding the slightest impulse made...of giving away thousands before we were taught the necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." In the Deserted Village we have another picture of... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1850 - 566 pages
...sense of honor " brought him to this pass of misery. " He wound us up," said the Man in Black, " to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of...more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." Miserably unsuccessful in college, — for what does or can despair bring but failure ? — Goldsmith... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1850 - 554 pages
..."sense of honor" brought him to this pass of misery. " He wound us up," said the Man in Black, " to be mere machines of pity, and rendered us incapable of...more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." Miserably unsuccessful in college, — for what does or can despair bring but failure ? — Goldsmith... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...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 rendered us incapable of...of giving away thousands before we were taught the necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." In the Deserted Village we have another picture of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pages
...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...of giving away thousands before we were taught the necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." In the Deserted Village we have another picture of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...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 rendered us incapable of...of giving away thousands before we were taught the necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." In the Deserted Village we have another picture of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1853 - 404 pages
...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 rendered us incapable of...of giving away thousands before we were taught the necessary qualifications of getting a farthing." In the Deserted Village we have another picture of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 592 pages
...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 rendered us incapable of...more necessary qualifications of getting a farthing. " I cannot avoid imagining, that thus refined by his lessons out of all my suspicion, and divested... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...; to regard the human face divine with affection " and esteem ; he wound us up to be mere macliines of pity, " and rendered us incapable of withstanding...necessary " qualifications of getting a farthing." * Acquisitions highly primitive, and supporting what seems to have been the common fame of the Goldsmith... | |
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