Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, 1. ciltT. Davies, in Russel-Street, Convent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, 1774 - 375 sayfa |
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Sayfa 3
... tion ? When this Speculatift finds himfelf prompted to another Performance , let him confider whether he is about to disburthen his Mind , or employ his Fin- gers ; and if I might venture to offer him a Subject , I fhould wish that he ...
... tion ? When this Speculatift finds himfelf prompted to another Performance , let him confider whether he is about to disburthen his Mind , or employ his Fin- gers ; and if I might venture to offer him a Subject , I fhould wish that he ...
Sayfa 4
... tion , not invented , for it was known I think to the Arabian Metaphyficians , but adopted by Pope ; and from him borrowed by the diligent Researches of this great Investigator . " No Syftem can poffibly be formed , even in Imagination ...
... tion , not invented , for it was known I think to the Arabian Metaphyficians , but adopted by Pope ; and from him borrowed by the diligent Researches of this great Investigator . " No Syftem can poffibly be formed , even in Imagination ...
Sayfa 10
... tion , but I cannot forbear to observe , that I never yet knew Disorders of Mind - encrease Felicity : every Madman is either arrogant and irafcible , or gloomy and fufpicious , or possessed by some Paffion or Notion deftructive to his ...
... tion , but I cannot forbear to observe , that I never yet knew Disorders of Mind - encrease Felicity : every Madman is either arrogant and irafcible , or gloomy and fufpicious , or possessed by some Paffion or Notion deftructive to his ...
Sayfa 12
... tion by his Diligence . Thofe who communicate Literature to the Son of a poor Man , confider him as one not born to Poverty , but to the Neceffity of deriving a better Fortune from himself . In this At- tempt , as in others , many fail ...
... tion by his Diligence . Thofe who communicate Literature to the Son of a poor Man , confider him as one not born to Poverty , but to the Neceffity of deriving a better Fortune from himself . In this At- tempt , as in others , many fail ...
Sayfa 15
... tion , to reft on nothing at the Bottom , to lean on nothing at the Top , and to have Vacuities from Step to Step through which any order of Being may fink into Nihility without any Inconvenience , fo far as we can judge , to the next ...
... tion , to reft on nothing at the Bottom , to lean on nothing at the Top , and to have Vacuities from Step to Step through which any order of Being may fink into Nihility without any Inconvenience , fo far as we can judge , to the next ...
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Sayfa 23 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
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Sayfa 261 - But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy : he has many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety; and flights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling.
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Sayfa 260 - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another.
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Sayfa 12 - To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is in itself cruel, if not unjust, and is wholly contrary to the maxims of a commercial nation, which always suppose and promote a rotation of property, and offer every individual a chance of mending his condition by his diligence.
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