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... Persons of the same family are frequently found to live to about the same age . Lastly , there is often a striking similarity in their temper and disposition . It is easy to perceive how these observations will apply to the question of ...
... Persons of the same family are frequently found to live to about the same age . Lastly , there is often a striking similarity in their temper and disposition . It is easy to perceive how these observations will apply to the question of ...
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William Godwin. him a volume of reflections . The time of these two persons in one respect resembles ; it has brought them both to Hyde - Park - Corner . In almost every other respect it is dissimilar . What is it that tends to generate ...
William Godwin. him a volume of reflections . The time of these two persons in one respect resembles ; it has brought them both to Hyde - Park - Corner . In almost every other respect it is dissimilar . What is it that tends to generate ...
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... persons seem to have been more utter strangers to that republican spirit which is the source of our noblest virtues , than those moderns who have assumed to be the historiographers of the ancient republics . A second argument in favour ...
... persons seem to have been more utter strangers to that republican spirit which is the source of our noblest virtues , than those moderns who have assumed to be the historiographers of the ancient republics . A second argument in favour ...
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... person is ordinarily found incapable of application or per- severance . He may form brilliant projects ; but he has neither the resolution nor the power to carry any of them to its completion . But All talent may perhaps be affirmed to ...
... person is ordinarily found incapable of application or per- severance . He may form brilliant projects ; but he has neither the resolution nor the power to carry any of them to its completion . But All talent may perhaps be affirmed to ...
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... persons of talent among ourselves who have been deprived of that benefit . We must suppose the indirect , as well as the direct improvement that arises from this species of study , wholly banished from the face of ESSAY VI . ] OF THE ...
... persons of talent among ourselves who have been deprived of that benefit . We must suppose the indirect , as well as the direct improvement that arises from this species of study , wholly banished from the face of ESSAY VI . ] OF THE ...
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Page 352 - ... 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.
Page 374 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 353 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 354 - ... 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.
Page 91 - 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.
Page 373 - 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. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Page 339 - ... 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...
Page 351 - 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, a mortal thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit, to venture and divulge unusual things of myself, I shall petition to the gentler sort, it may not be envy to me.
Page 339 - 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...
Page 144 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.