The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, المجلد 16 |
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الصفحة xvii
... honour to the author's sagacity . It was the first attempt ever made to distinguish the immediate and natural objects of sight from the conclusions we have been accustomed from infancy to draw from them : a distinction from which the ...
... honour to the author's sagacity . It was the first attempt ever made to distinguish the immediate and natural objects of sight from the conclusions we have been accustomed from infancy to draw from them : a distinction from which the ...
الصفحة xxxii
... honour * . These suspicions ADDISON is said to have com- municated to TICKELL , the consequence of which was that animosity which afterwards broke out openly in TICKELL'S Life of ADDISON and STEELE'S dedication of the Drummer . The ...
... honour * . These suspicions ADDISON is said to have com- municated to TICKELL , the consequence of which was that animosity which afterwards broke out openly in TICKELL'S Life of ADDISON and STEELE'S dedication of the Drummer . The ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... the Lords Justices of Ireland , a place of great honour , in which he continued until 1740 , when he died , April 23 , at Bath . Of his personal character we have little information : he is said BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . Xxxiii.
... the Lords Justices of Ireland , a place of great honour , in which he continued until 1740 , when he died , April 23 , at Bath . Of his personal character we have little information : he is said BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . Xxxiii.
الصفحة xlii
... honour , as to inscribe the title of it to others , which may be published upon the laying down of this work ; the whole praise or dispraise of such a performance , will belong to some other author : this fifty - fifth being the last ...
... honour , as to inscribe the title of it to others , which may be published upon the laying down of this work ; the whole praise or dispraise of such a performance , will belong to some other author : this fifty - fifth being the last ...
الصفحة liv
... honour or distinction is allotted to them . We are now , however , entering on a new era in the history of Essay Writing , a period during which the greatest talents were again called forth to combine wit and genius in the service of ...
... honour or distinction is allotted to them . We are now , however , entering on a new era in the history of Essay Writing , a period during which the greatest talents were again called forth to combine wit and genius in the service of ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ADDISON admiration Æneid agreeable Aguire ancient appear APRIL Arbor Porphyriana beauty better called character Charwell conversation Corydon countenance daughter delight desire discourse divisions of low dress easy eclogues endeavour eyes fancy favour fortune free-thinker genius gentleman give greater GUARDIAN happy hath heart honour humour Iago imagination innocence Ironside kind king labour lady Lizard laugh learning live look Lord lord Roscommon lover madam maid mankind manner Megaric merit mind mother nature neral never night observed occasion Othello paper passions pastoral pastoral poetry person Philips pineal gland pleased pleasure poet poetry reader reason satisfaction Scaron sense shepherds shew smile song soul Sparkler speak spirit STEELE Syphax taste TATLER Theocritus thing thou thought tion town VIRG Virgil virtue virtuous wherein WHIG whole woman words writing young
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الصفحة 252 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided ; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
الصفحة 252 - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
الصفحة 271 - LOOK round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. How void of reason are our hopes and fears ! What in the conduct of our life appears So well...
الصفحة 252 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
الصفحة 252 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
الصفحة 150 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country's cause...
الصفحة 101 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
الصفحة 21 - ... part ought to have inspired with nobler and juster sentiments. This prostitution of praise is not only a deceit upon the gross of mankind, who take their notion of characters from the learned; but also the better sort must by this means lose some part at least of that desire of fame which is the incentive to generous actions, when they find it promiscuously bestowed on the meritorious and undeserving...
الصفحة 215 - But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; there is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God...
الصفحة 16 - A Discourse of Free-thinking, occasioned by the rise and growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers 2.