Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames: One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and One of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland Containing Sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement in Scotland During the Greater Part of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 - Judges |
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... feeling incident to his profession ; which preserves unvitiated every moral distinction , amidst the daily exercise of an art too often em- ployed to confound and obliterate them and is the parent of that ingenuous manli- ness of ...
... feeling incident to his profession ; which preserves unvitiated every moral distinction , amidst the daily exercise of an art too often em- ployed to confound and obliterate them and is the parent of that ingenuous manli- ness of ...
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... feeling of such a retro- spect . Independently of the discharge of his professional duties , and the most active concern which he took in numberless schemes for the public good , and the improvement of his country , his various writings ...
... feeling of such a retro- spect . Independently of the discharge of his professional duties , and the most active concern which he took in numberless schemes for the public good , and the improvement of his country , his various writings ...
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... feelings of " our heart , the agitation of our passions , the vehemence of our affections , dissipate all its conclusions , and reduce the " 86 " " profound philosopher to a mere plebeian . This also must be confessed , that the most ...
... feelings of " our heart , the agitation of our passions , the vehemence of our affections , dissipate all its conclusions , and reduce the " 86 " " profound philosopher to a mere plebeian . This also must be confessed , that the most ...
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... feels it a misery to be unresolved . Such as have accused Mr Home of scepti- cism , are either ignorant of his writings , or have forgotten a most material distinction . It ought ever to be remembered , that there is a wide difference ...
... feels it a misery to be unresolved . Such as have accused Mr Home of scepti- cism , are either ignorant of his writings , or have forgotten a most material distinction . It ought ever to be remembered , that there is a wide difference ...
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... feelings were ardent , his piety , of course , was fervent and habitual . His small tract , intitled Reflections on ... feeling his heart improved , and a strong im- pression made , favourable to religion and virtue . The turn of mind ...
... feelings were ardent , his piety , of course , was fervent and habitual . His small tract , intitled Reflections on ... feeling his heart improved , and a strong im- pression made , favourable to religion and virtue . The turn of mind ...
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Page 420 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all, — O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 421 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm ! How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness defend you From seasons such as these...
Page 141 - Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours...
Page 88 - Pure as the expanse of heaven I thither went With unexperienced thought and laid me down On the green bank to look into the clear Smooth lake that to me seemed another sky. As I bent down to look just opposite A shape within the watery gleam appeared Bending to look on me. I started back It started back but pleased I soon returned Pleased it returned as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love.
Page 434 - A singular and unavoidable manner of doing or saying any thing, Peculiar and Natural to one Man only, by which his Speech and Actions are distinguished from those of other men.
Page 366 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America ; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.
Page 138 - When I look abroad, I foresee on every side dispute, contradiction, anger, calumny, and detraction. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance.
Page 141 - Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Page 425 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 374 - It is as properly an art as painting, navigation, or architecture. If a man would become a painter, navigator, or architect, it is not enough that he is advised to be one, that he is convinced by the arguments of his adviser that it would be for his advantage to be one, and that he resolves to be one; but he must also be taught the principles of the art, be shown all the methods of working, and how to acquire the habits of using properly all the instruments; and thus regularly and gradually he arrives...