Dramatic and Prose Miscellanies: Lucianus redivivus: or, Dialogues concerning men and manners. A trip to Holland: containing sketches of character, with cursory observations on the manners and customs of the Dutch in 1770. Public prosperity: Letter addressed to the Right Hon. William Pitt, in 1792, for raising six millions sterling, and for employing that sum in loans to necessitous and industrious persons ... 3d ed. Saturnian times; or, A plan for abolishing the national religion in favour of the hero-worship of antiquity, addressed to the enlightened heathens of the British empire (2d ed., 1770)G. Virtue, 1838 |
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... principle of policy or fear . The rights of humanity are now too firmly established to be shaken by him the modern tyrant , —a Nero or a Caligula , would be of very short existence indeed . : Fred . You are right in your concluding ...
... principle of policy or fear . The rights of humanity are now too firmly established to be shaken by him the modern tyrant , —a Nero or a Caligula , would be of very short existence indeed . : Fred . You are right in your concluding ...
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... principles , the meteor which floats and glitters around the head of the warrior will ever be styled by mistaken man . It is with the soldier as with the inamorato , 66 - When success a lover's toils attends , Few ask if fraud or force ...
... principles , the meteor which floats and glitters around the head of the warrior will ever be styled by mistaken man . It is with the soldier as with the inamorato , 66 - When success a lover's toils attends , Few ask if fraud or force ...
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... principles of philosophy , but the manners of its teachers , that I would chiefly declaim : it is not against the virtues of the science , but the vices of its professors , that I earnestly protest . Misan . How ! The vices of the ...
... principles of philosophy , but the manners of its teachers , that I would chiefly declaim : it is not against the virtues of the science , but the vices of its professors , that I earnestly protest . Misan . How ! The vices of the ...
第 23 頁
... principle would at no time allow him to practise it . The friend of man seeks not to punish but to reform . In censuring the prevailing manners , I speak of the gene- rality of mankind , depraved as they are by a spirit of contention ...
... principle would at no time allow him to practise it . The friend of man seeks not to punish but to reform . In censuring the prevailing manners , I speak of the gene- rality of mankind , depraved as they are by a spirit of contention ...
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... principles , which are discoverable in us , and which by some are believed to be innate . The force of education is very great , — ' Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent , the tree's inclin❜d . But , even to ...
... principles , which are discoverable in us , and which by some are believed to be innate . The force of education is very great , — ' Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent , the tree's inclin❜d . But , even to ...
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acknowledge admirable Amsterdam appear attention beautiful bien Bishop of Worcester censure certainly Cerv character Church considered contempt cried critic DIALOGUE Dutchman Dutchwoman elegant ELYSIAN FIELDS endeavour envy equally excellent exclaimed extreme justice Father fellow Fred frequently friends genius gentleman Hague happy Heaven Holland homme honour human humour imagine imitator immortal bard kind king l'humanité lady laws Levic literary live maître d'hôtel manner matter means Megapenthes Merc Merch merit mind Misan Molière Monsieur moral nature never observed once opinion particular passage perhaps philosopher Plutarch poet Pope possibly present prince punishment qu'il Rabelais racter raillery reason remark remember Rhadamanthus ridicule Rouss satire SCENE THE ELYSIAN Scotland sentiments Shakspeare sophism soul speak Sportsm Sterne styled surely thing thou thought Trag treckschute true truly truth vice virtue Volt Voltaire Warb Warburton wholly wish word writer
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第 178 頁 - But oh ! what art can teach, What human voice can reach The sacred organ's praise ? Notes inspiring holy love, Notes that wing their heavenly ways To mend the choirs above.
第 282 頁 - ... that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
第 20 頁 - Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee In unreprove'd pleasures free...
第 283 頁 - The allurements of emendation are scarcely resistible. Conjecture has all the joy and all the pride of invention, and he that has once started a happy change, is too much delighted to consider what objections may rise against it.
第 130 頁 - Sometimes one prince quarrels with another, for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong, and sometimes because he is too weak. Sometimes our...
第 96 頁 - How science dwindles, and how volumes swell. How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the Sun.
第 285 頁 - I did not understand them, will perhaps hereafter be explained, having, I hope, illustrated some, which others have neglected or mistaken, sometimes by short remarks, or marginal directions, such as every editor has added at his will, and often by comments more laborious than the matter will seem to deserve ; but that which is most difficult is not always most important, and to an editor nothing is a trifle by which his author is obscured.
第 23 頁 - ... aut componere opes norant aut parcere parto, sed rami atque asper victu venatus alebat. primus ab aetherio venit Saturnus Olympo arma lovis fugiens et regnis exsul ademptis. 320 is genus indocile ac dispersum montibus altis composuit legesque dedit, Latiumque vocari maluit, his quoniam latuisset tutus in oris.
第 50 頁 - Ah little think the gay licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround; They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, often cruel, riot waste; Ah little think they, while they dance along, How many feel, this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain.
第 282 頁 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature; when he...