 | John Watkins - 1822 - 476 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the...sprightliness of infancy to the despondency of decrepitude." Romantic as all this may seem, it is sober truth, and the works of the greatest poets of antiquity,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...combinations ; and trace the changes of the human mind, as they arc modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of tinprejudices of his age and country ; he must... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...combinations ; and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and wn, having been despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age and country ; he must... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1825 - 380 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy, to the despondence of decrepitude. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences, of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1828 - 466 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes 39 of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom ; from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself 40 ef the prejudices of his age or country ; he... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 336 pages
...dependent one on the other. He must farther observe the power of the passions in all their combinationSj and trace their changes as modified by constitution,...familiar with all the modes of life, and above all, endeavor to discriminate the essential from the accidental, to divest himself of the prejudices of... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude. He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must... | |
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... with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various... 
