Observations on the opinions of several writers on various historical, political, and metaphysical questions1817 |
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viii. oldal
... passed on the specimens which have hitherto appeared , many Orientalists refuse to lower their tone ; but continue ... passing judg- ment on Eastern writers , is not to be paralleled for its extravagance and unmeritedness by any thing ...
... passed on the specimens which have hitherto appeared , many Orientalists refuse to lower their tone ; but continue ... passing judg- ment on Eastern writers , is not to be paralleled for its extravagance and unmeritedness by any thing ...
23. oldal
... passing through the royal mint : in Ariastic monarchies , on the contrary , the want of indivi- dual property in land denying the possibility of men having any intrinsic value , the whole population resembles leaden counters , and the ...
... passing through the royal mint : in Ariastic monarchies , on the contrary , the want of indivi- dual property in land denying the possibility of men having any intrinsic value , the whole population resembles leaden counters , and the ...
52. oldal
... passed to compel them to abjure the kingdom , and though this species of oppression be more severe , it is also more reasonable than the other .. If , before the revocation of the edict of Nantz , Louis XIV . had found a similar spirit ...
... passed to compel them to abjure the kingdom , and though this species of oppression be more severe , it is also more reasonable than the other .. If , before the revocation of the edict of Nantz , Louis XIV . had found a similar spirit ...
53. oldal
... passing away , heaped fuel on the fire that had had broken out , and did not allow it to take a direction where it might safely spend its fury . Louis expelled a multitude of the most peaceable , industrious , and enlightened of his ...
... passing away , heaped fuel on the fire that had had broken out , and did not allow it to take a direction where it might safely spend its fury . Louis expelled a multitude of the most peaceable , industrious , and enlightened of his ...
70. oldal
... passing a judgment on this work our attention is arrested on the threshold , by the view the author takes , in his preface , of the state in which preceding writers had left the subject he intended to discuss . He there says : " Having ...
... passing a judgment on this work our attention is arrested on the threshold , by the view the author takes , in his preface , of the state in which preceding writers had left the subject he intended to discuss . He there says : " Having ...
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305. oldal - tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
221. oldal - Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
223. oldal - I answer, this extraordinary effect proceeds from that very eloquence with which the melancholy scene is represented. The genius required to paint objects in a lively manner, the art employed in collecting all the pathetic circumstances, the judgment displayed in disposing them ; the exercise, I say, of these noble talents, together with the force of expression and beauty of oratorial numbers, diffuse the highest satisfaction on the audience, and excite the most delightful movements.
280. oldal - I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews, 3 especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
263. oldal - You mean to say that the errors of Grammarians have arisen from supposing all words to be immediately either the signs of things or the signs of ideas; whereas in fact many words are merely abbreviations employed for dispatch, and are the signs of other words.
163. oldal - ... not be a single period when the mass of the people could be said to be free from distress, either directly or indirectly, for want of food.
222. oldal - He, who in earnest studies o'er his part, Will find true nature cling about his heart. The modes of grief are not included all In the white handkerchief and mournful drawl ; A single look more marks the internal woe, Than all the windings of the lengthen'd Oh.
237. oldal - ... discovered; and the more time a man is obliged to spend in ascertaining what his predecessors have already established, the less he will have to bestow in adding to its amount. The time, however, is of less consequence; but the habits of mind that are formed by walking patiently, humbly, and passively in the paths that have been traced by others, are the very habits that disqualify us for vigorous and independent excursions of our own.
236. oldal - More knowledge they prob'ably will have,-*-as we have undoubtedly more knowledge than our ancestors had two hundred years ago ; but for vigour of understanding, or pleasure in the exercise of it, we must beg leave to demur. The more there is already known, the less there remains to be discovered ; and the more time a man is obliged to spend in ascertaining what his predecessors have already established, the less he will have to bestow in adding to its amount. The time, however, is of less consequence...
190. oldal - ... in which though a particular quantity be marked by each letter, yet to proceed right it is not requisite that in every step each letter suggest to your thoughts, that particular quantity it was appointed to stand for.