An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times, 2. kötet

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L. Davis, and C. Reymers, 1757 - 221 oldal
 

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44. oldal - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
221. oldal - Whenever this compelling power, necessity, shall appear, then, and not till then, may we hope that our deliverance is at hand. Effeminacy, rapacity, and faction will then be ready to resign the reins they would now usurp. One common danger would create one common interest.
91. oldal - Conftable, in/lead of arming themfelves and encouraging the People, generally fled before the Rebels ; while a Mob of ragged Highlanders marched unmolefted to the Heart of a populous Kingdom.
45. oldal - Vice has lost in coarseness of expression, she has gained in a more easy and general admittance. In ancient days, bare and impudent obscenity, like a common woman of the town, was confined to brothels : whereas the...
13. oldal - Ce n'est pas la fortune qui domine le monde; on peut le demander aux Romains, qui eurent une suite continuelle de prospérités quand ils se gouvernèrent sur un certain plan, et une suite non interrompue de revers lorsqu'ils se conduisirent sur un autre.
43. oldal - Writer, whofe Force of Genius, and Extent of Knowledge, might almoft redeem the Character of the Times. But that Superiority, which attracts the Reverence of the Few, excites the Envy and Hatred of the Many : And while his Works are...
42. oldal - Repofitories of Tafte and Knowledge ; but are rather laid hold of, as a gentle Relaxation from the tedious Round of Pleafure.
49. oldal - But as the attractions of the theatre arife from a complication of caufes, beyond thofe of any other entertainment; fo, while the judicious critic admires his original excellencies, it may well be queftioned, whether the crowd be not drawn by certain fecondary circumftances, rather than by a difcernment of his real powers. Need we any other proof of this than the conduct of his fafhionable hearers, who fit with the fame face of admiration at Lear, an opera, and a pantomime?
26. oldal - Observation, if attended with Impartiality, may convince us, that the Character of the Manners of this Age and Nation, is by no means that of abandoned Wickedness and Profligacy.
82. oldal - Reader will naturally expect to find confidered ; I mean, that of the Clergy. But the general Defect of religious Principle among the higher Ranks, hath rendered this order of Men altogether ufelefs, except among thofe in middle Life, where they ftill maintain a certain Degree of Eftimation.

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