Moral and Political Dialogues: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance: by the Reverend Doctor Hurd. In Three VolumesT. Cadell in the Strand, 1776 - Ethics |
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... young men to become Sages . PLATO might pick up more learning in his Voyages , than any body fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wifer for staring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt ...
... young men to become Sages . PLATO might pick up more learning in his Voyages , than any body fince has been able to understand ; and yet a youth of eighteen be little the wifer for staring away two or three years in mysterious Egypt ...
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... young Nobleman- AFTER all , we may let these two voyagers , fo well matched and fitted to each other , proceed on their journey .. The queftion at prefent is of no fuch rarities ; but of raw , ignorant , ungovern- able boys , on the one ...
... young Nobleman- AFTER all , we may let these two voyagers , fo well matched and fitted to each other , proceed on their journey .. The queftion at prefent is of no fuch rarities ; but of raw , ignorant , ungovern- able boys , on the one ...
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... principles or ' letters ; but , in the world at large , for some learned and well - accomplished per- fon , who , yet , may not difdain to be en- gaged gaged in this nobleft office of conducting a young gentleman's FOREIGN TRAVEL . 25.
... principles or ' letters ; but , in the world at large , for some learned and well - accomplished per- fon , who , yet , may not difdain to be en- gaged gaged in this nobleft office of conducting a young gentleman's FOREIGN TRAVEL . 25.
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... young gentleman's education . UNDER fuch a Governor , as this , the danger , to which a young man's morals may be exposed by early travel , will be tolerably guarded againft ; and to make amends for the hazard he runs in this refpect ...
... young gentleman's education . UNDER fuch a Governor , as this , the danger , to which a young man's morals may be exposed by early travel , will be tolerably guarded againft ; and to make amends for the hazard he runs in this refpect ...
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... Young minds are the fitteft to take the ply of civility and good manners . The tafk is lefs eafy , and the fuccefs more un- certain , when we enter upon this bufi . nefs late in life ; when intractable hu- mours have gathered ftrength ...
... Young minds are the fitteft to take the ply of civility and good manners . The tafk is lefs eafy , and the fuccefs more un- certain , when we enter upon this bufi . nefs late in life ; when intractable hu- mours have gathered ftrength ...
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abfurd accompliſhed adventures againſt almoſt anſwer antient ARIOSTO beft beſt buſineſs cafe character Chivalry circumſtances claffic confideration converfation defign difcipline eſpecially faid Fairy Queen fame fancies faſhionable fatire fcene feem feen fenfe ferve feudal fhall fhew fhould focieties fome fomething foon foreign travel fpirit ftate ftill ftories ftudies fubject fuch fuperftition fuperior fuppofe furely fyftem genius Gothic Gothic fictions guife himſelf Iliad inftance inftruction itſelf juft juſt knights knowledge laft leaft learning leaſt lefs LETTER LOCKE LORD SHAFTESBURY Lordship mafter manners mind moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffion perfons philofopher pleaſe poem poet polite prefent proper purpoſe queftion racter reafon refpect reft Romance ſay ſchools ſenſe ſhall Sir TOPAZ ſome SPENSER ſtate ſtill ſtudy TASSO taſte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion TOPAZ underſtand Univerſities uſe virtue young youth
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Page 264 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 328 - There was no example of any such manners remaining on the face of the Earth: And as they never did subsist but once, and are never likely to subsist again, people would be led of course to think and speak of them, as romantic, and unnatural.
Page 207 - ... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the...
Page 260 - And without more words you will readily apprehend that the fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but, on a change of the scene, more sublime, more terrible, more alarming than those of the classic fablers. In a word, you will find that the manners they paint, and the superstitions they adopt, are the more poetical for being Gothic.
Page 267 - When an architect examines a Gothic structure by Grecian rules, he finds nothing but deformity. But the Gothic architecture has its own rules, by which when it comes to be examined, it is seen to have its merit, as well as the Grecian.
Page 259 - The ancients have not much of this poetry among them ; for, indeed, almost the whole substance of it owes its original to the darkness and superstition of later ages, when pious frauds were made use of to amuse mankind, and frighten them into a sense of their duty.
Page 272 - ... ideas of Unity, which have no place here; and are in every view foreign to the...
Page 279 - ... his critics seem not to have been aware of it — His chief hero was not to have the twelve virtues in the degree in which the knights had each of them their own...
Page 207 - Virtue fhould be plentifully found, Which of all goodly manners is the ground And roote of civil converfation : Right fo in faery court it did refound, Where courteous knights and ladies moft did won Of all on earth, and made a matchlefs paragon.
Page 247 - I mean the poetry we still read, and which was founded upon it. Much has been said, and with great truth, of the felicity of Homer's age for poetical manners. But as Homer was a citizen of the world, when he had...