Dissertations Moral and Critical, Volym 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 |
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... also give such a variety to our thoughts as may prove very falutary to the foul . For the fame train of thinking too long purfued is often detrimental to health , and fometimes even to reason . The rule here hinted at fhould never , on ...
... also give such a variety to our thoughts as may prove very falutary to the foul . For the fame train of thinking too long purfued is often detrimental to health , and fometimes even to reason . The rule here hinted at fhould never , on ...
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... also of an exact ear , and of great flexibility in the organs of articulation . Yet , while his Memory is fo very fufceptible , it is for the most part equally deficient in the retentive power , unless conftantly exercifed : for a child ...
... also of an exact ear , and of great flexibility in the organs of articulation . Yet , while his Memory is fo very fufceptible , it is for the most part equally deficient in the retentive power , unless conftantly exercifed : for a child ...
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... also a matter , on which we cannot too often exercise our Me- mory . Seasons of felf - examination , at which our past actions , thoughts , and purposes , pafs in re- view before us , to be approved if we find them right , and condemned ...
... also a matter , on which we cannot too often exercise our Me- mory . Seasons of felf - examination , at which our past actions , thoughts , and purposes , pafs in re- view before us , to be approved if we find them right , and condemned ...
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... also those that are peculiarly our own , of which a confiderable number may arife in the minds of moft men every day . And , though many of these might , no doubt , be forgotten without lofs , yet fome may be found worthy of a lafting ...
... also those that are peculiarly our own , of which a confiderable number may arife in the minds of moft men every day . And , though many of these might , no doubt , be forgotten without lofs , yet fome may be found worthy of a lafting ...
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... ; and which , when accompanied with a found judgment and good addrefs , feldom fails to advance a man in the world . This practice E 2 alfo also gives stability to our thoughts , and puts it Chap . III . OF MEMORY . 51.
... ; and which , when accompanied with a found judgment and good addrefs , feldom fails to advance a man in the world . This practice E 2 alfo also gives stability to our thoughts , and puts it Chap . III . OF MEMORY . 51.
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adjective adverbs Æneid affirmation affociated alfo alſo antient aorift appear beauty becauſe cafe called caufe Cicero confequently confidered defire denotes difcourfe diftinct diftinguished dreams effential elegant English expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fatire fecond fecondly feem feen fenfe fentence fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fign fignify fimple firft firſt fleep fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpecies fpeech fpoken ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fyllables Grammarians Greek himſelf human ideas imagination itſelf laft language Latin learned leaſt lefs meaning meaſure Memory mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary noun obferved occafion paffage paffions paffive pafs paft participle paſt perfon philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet poffible pofition prefent prepofitions preterite profe pronoun purpoſe racter reafon refpect rife ſpeak tafte tenfes thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion tive tongue trochees underſtand uſe verb verfe Virgil whofe words writing
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Sida 334 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Sida 188 - The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
Sida 392 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Sida 382 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd and fiery arms...
Sida 270 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth, in a part of the army which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in love with an agreeable young woman, of a good family in those parts, and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received, which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate. We were in a calm evening...
Sida 270 - In the midst of these our innocent endearments, she snatched a paper of verses out of my hand, and ran away with them. I was following her, when on a...
Sida 354 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly in their hortatives...
Sida 213 - So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts.
Sida 271 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
Sida 420 - It is one of the great beauties of poetry to make hard things intelligible, and to deliver what is abstruse of itself in such easy language as may be understood by ordinary readers...