The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 sayfa |
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... whole will be found conformable to truth . This is the method of investigation attempted in the Enquiry concerning Political Justice . An enquiry thus pursued is undoubtedly in the highest style of man . But it is liable to many ...
... whole will be found conformable to truth . This is the method of investigation attempted in the Enquiry concerning Political Justice . An enquiry thus pursued is undoubtedly in the highest style of man . But it is liable to many ...
Sayfa 11
... whole therefore seems to be a gratuitous assumption . Genius appears to signify little more , in the first instance , than a spirit of prying observation and incessant curiosity . But it is reasonable to sup- pose that these qualities ...
... whole therefore seems to be a gratuitous assumption . Genius appears to signify little more , in the first instance , than a spirit of prying observation and incessant curiosity . But it is reasonable to sup- pose that these qualities ...
Sayfa 28
... whole soul is employed . He enters into nice calculations ; he digests sagacious reasonings . In imagination he declaims or de- scribes , impressed with the deepest sympathy , or elevated to the loftiest rapture . He makes a thou- sand ...
... whole soul is employed . He enters into nice calculations ; he digests sagacious reasonings . In imagination he declaims or de- scribes , impressed with the deepest sympathy , or elevated to the loftiest rapture . He makes a thou- sand ...
Sayfa 39
... whole magazine of his native tongue is subjected at his feet . The science of etymology has been earnestly recommended , as the only adequate instrument for effecting the purpose here described ; and un- doubtedly it is of high ...
... whole magazine of his native tongue is subjected at his feet . The science of etymology has been earnestly recommended , as the only adequate instrument for effecting the purpose here described ; and un- doubtedly it is of high ...
Sayfa 41
... whole of their lives with the pe- rusal of the classics . Nothing is generally more easy than to discover by his style , whether a man has been deprived of the advantages of a literary education . A further argument in favour of the ...
... whole of their lives with the pe- rusal of the classics . Nothing is generally more easy than to discover by his style , whether a man has been deprived of the advantages of a literary education . A further argument in favour of the ...
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Sayfa 356 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Sayfa 358 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Sayfa 354 - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose...
Sayfa 377 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates.
Sayfa 93 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Sayfa 343 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Sayfa 343 - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...
Sayfa 286 - ... to offer to your solemn contemplation and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection of no inconsiderable observation and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Sayfa 358 - If therefore ye be loath to dishearten utterly and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Sayfa 367 - I may say) of expressions of kindness and respect, that if a man that lived an age or two ago should return into the world again, he would really want a dictionary to help him to understand his own language, and to know the true intrinsic value of the phrase in fashion ; and would hardly at first believe at what a low rate the highest strains and expressions of kindness imaginable do commonly pass in current payment; and when he should come to understand it, it would be a great while before he could...