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... labours of my predecessors in the same fertile fields . The Dictionaries of Johnson , Webster , and Worcester , and the ... labour " with frigid tranquillity , having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ; but I can truly ...
... labours of my predecessors in the same fertile fields . The Dictionaries of Johnson , Webster , and Worcester , and the ... labour " with frigid tranquillity , having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise ; but I can truly ...
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... labour under it . DR . T. ARNOLD . Age makes us most fondly hug and retain the good things of this life , when we ... labours , and cheer him with their society . Let him , therefore , now in the summer of his days , while yet active and ...
... labour under it . DR . T. ARNOLD . Age makes us most fondly hug and retain the good things of this life , when we ... labours , and cheer him with their society . Let him , therefore , now in the summer of his days , while yet active and ...
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... labour and sorrow , the more I prop myself upon those few supports that are left . SWIFT . The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life the nearer we approach to the end . SWIFT . Old women ...
... labour and sorrow , the more I prop myself upon those few supports that are left . SWIFT . The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life the nearer we approach to the end . SWIFT . Old women ...
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... Labour , is exactly similar to Theodore , the genealogy of Wit , or the contest odes or from a canto of Hudibras . It is a the pleasure we derive from one of Cowley's pleasure which belongs wholly to the under- have done hardly anything ...
... Labour , is exactly similar to Theodore , the genealogy of Wit , or the contest odes or from a canto of Hudibras . It is a the pleasure we derive from one of Cowley's pleasure which belongs wholly to the under- have done hardly anything ...
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... labour to deduce them . CAMDEN . A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage ; but if he any way de- generate from his line , the least spot is visible on ermine . DRYDEN . His ancestors have been more and more ...
... labour to deduce them . CAMDEN . A long series of ancestors shows the native lustre with advantage ; but if he any way de- generate from his line , the least spot is visible on ermine . DRYDEN . His ancestors have been more and more ...
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actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers
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Page 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 83 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
Page 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Page 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
Page 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...