Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue |
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... conduct . It betrays a daf- tardly fpirit . It is the resource of one who wants courage to avow his designs , or to rest upon him- felf . To fet out in the world with no other principle than a crafty attention to intereft , be- tokens ...
... conduct . It betrays a daf- tardly fpirit . It is the resource of one who wants courage to avow his designs , or to rest upon him- felf . To fet out in the world with no other principle than a crafty attention to intereft , be- tokens ...
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... conduct , and to warn them of the various dangers of life ; by wife counsel to temper their precipitate ardour , and both by precept and example to form them to piety and virtue . It never appears with greater dignity , than , when ...
... conduct , and to warn them of the various dangers of life ; by wife counsel to temper their precipitate ardour , and both by precept and example to form them to piety and virtue . It never appears with greater dignity , than , when ...
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... conduct ; -declaring that he hopes for immortality , whether that hope fur- mounted undue attachment to the present life . Such investigation , feriously pursued , may produce to every man many discoveries of him- felf ; difcoveries ...
... conduct ; -declaring that he hopes for immortality , whether that hope fur- mounted undue attachment to the present life . Such investigation , feriously pursued , may produce to every man many discoveries of him- felf ; difcoveries ...
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... perhaps , at laft , that thofe whom we are taught to reverence and to regard as our patterns of conduct , act upon principles no purer than thofe of others . MAN MAN OF THE WORLD . HE pretends that virtue is 52 BEAUTIES OF BLAIR .
... perhaps , at laft , that thofe whom we are taught to reverence and to regard as our patterns of conduct , act upon principles no purer than thofe of others . MAN MAN OF THE WORLD . HE pretends that virtue is 52 BEAUTIES OF BLAIR .
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... conduct , -to diftruft fair appear- ances , and to reftrain rafh defires - are inftruc- tions which the darkness of his present state should strongly inculcate . God hath appointed his fituation to be fo am- biguous in order both to ...
... conduct , -to diftruft fair appear- ances , and to reftrain rafh defires - are inftruc- tions which the darkness of his present state should strongly inculcate . God hath appointed his fituation to be fo am- biguous in order both to ...
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Page 36 - True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to HIM who made us, and to the common nature of which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants; and from just views of the condition, and the duty of man.
Page 98 - They discover talents which in themselves are shining, and which, become highly valuable, when employed in advancing the good of mankind. Hence, they frequently give rise to fame. But a distinction is to be made. between fame and true honour. The former is a loud and noisy applause ; the latter, a more silent and internal homage.
Page 246 - Though a boundless plain be a grand object, yet a high mountain, to which we look up, or an awful precipice or tower whence we look down on the objects which lie below, is still more so.
Page 85 - who knoweth whereof we are made," and of what we are capable. It is true, we are not all equally happy in our dispositions; but human virtue consists in cherishing and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are...
Page 256 - In the third place, with respect to the assistance that is to be gained from the writings of others, it is obvious, that we ought to render ourselves well acquainted with the style of the best authors. This is requisite both...
Page 288 - The best letters are commonly such as the authors have written with most facility. What the heart or the imagination dictates, always flows readily ; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears ; and hence those letters of mere compliment, congratulation, or affected condolence, which have cost the authors most labour in composing, and which, for that reason, they perhaps consider as their master-pieces, never fail of being...
Page 83 - ... charms, as yet, to every gratification. The world appears to spread a continual feast; and health, vigour, and high spirits, invite them to partake of it without restraint. In vain we warn them of latent dangers. Religion is...
Page 251 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain: loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of the battle.
Page 314 - Writer; but there is hardly any one of his Plays which can be called altogether a good one, or which can be read with uninterrupted pleasure from beginning to end.
Page 178 - In parents, it is care and attention ; in children, it is reverence and submission. In a word, it is the soul of social life. It is the sun that enlivens and cheers the abodes of men. It is,