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... mind without effort , are amused by its sprightliness , and are convinced that his heart was endued with some excellent social qualities.- As to Hurd , also , it must not be omitted that the warmth of his gratitude , his devotion to ...
... mind without effort , are amused by its sprightliness , and are convinced that his heart was endued with some excellent social qualities.- As to Hurd , also , it must not be omitted that the warmth of his gratitude , his devotion to ...
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... mind that might have honoured any rank and any education . With very tolerable , but in no degree affluent circum- stances , their generosity was such , they never regarded any expence that was in their power , and almost out of it , in ...
... mind that might have honoured any rank and any education . With very tolerable , but in no degree affluent circum- stances , their generosity was such , they never regarded any expence that was in their power , and almost out of it , in ...
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... mind , still more than in the matter of your book , that struck me . In a word , I grew a constant reader of you . I enquired after your other works . I got the Alliance into my hands , and met with the Essay on Portents and Prodigies ...
... mind , still more than in the matter of your book , that struck me . In a word , I grew a constant reader of you . I enquired after your other works . I got the Alliance into my hands , and met with the Essay on Portents and Prodigies ...
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... mind as a controversialist , from the representation which he gives of himself at the time of replying to several writers who had attacked the Divine Legation : go The contents of the inclosed paper is for a note at p . 484 of the ...
... mind as a controversialist , from the representation which he gives of himself at the time of replying to several writers who had attacked the Divine Legation : go The contents of the inclosed paper is for a note at p . 484 of the ...
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... mind , in consequence of our having taken and detained one of their ships of war , for what cause I do not remember : the professor largely partook of the public anger ; and as it is natural to identify a foreigner with his country , as ...
... mind , in consequence of our having taken and detained one of their ships of war , for what cause I do not remember : the professor largely partook of the public anger ; and as it is natural to identify a foreigner with his country , as ...
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Page 54 - ... insults over their credulous fears, their childish errors, or fantastic rites, it does not occur to him to observe, that the most preposterous device by which the weakest devotee ever believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, nothing is so absurd as indifference ; — no folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity.
Page 70 - Moore was spent among the troops. " During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care and instruction of the Officer and Soldier ; in war, he courted service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal considerations, he esteemed that to which his Country called him, the post of honour ; and by his undaunted spirit, and unconquerable perseverance, he pointed the way to victory. " His Country, the object of his latest solicitude, will rear a monument to his lamented memory ;...
Page 54 - is so absurd as indifference ; no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness and levity. In the next place, do methodists deserve this treatment? Be their particular doctrines what they may, the professors of these doctrines appear to be in earnest about them : and a man who is in earnest in religion cannot be a bad man, still less a fit subject for derision.
Page 401 - Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride. Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so; Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well!
Page 89 - The mules themselves are sensible of the caution requisite in these descents; for, coming to the top of an eminence, they stop, and having placed their fore feet close together, as in a posture of stopping themselves, they also put their hinder feet together, but a little forwards, as if going to lie down. In this attitude, having as it were taken a survey of the road, they slide down with the swiftness of a meteor. All...
Page 83 - Your lordship knows, that had I followed my own opinion, as a military man, I should have retired with the army from Salamanca. The Spanish armies were then beaten, there was no Spanish force to which we could unite...
Page 416 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Page 5 - ... wanted it more, or liked it better. They considered what age and declining health seemed to demand of them, reserving to themselves only such a support as their few and little wants made them think sufficient. I should beg pardon for troubling you with this humble history ; but the subjects of it are so much, and so tenderly, in my thoughts at present, that if I wrote at all, I could hardly help writing about them.
Page 343 - ... mountains, or valleys, afforded him studies of composition. Indeed, his genius bore a strong resemblance to the scenes he was born in : like them, it partook of the grand and beautiful; and like them, also, the bright sunshine and enchanting prospects of his fancy were occasionally overspread with mist and gloom.
Page 2 - These letters give so true a picture of the writer's character, and are, besides, so worthy of him in all respects (I mean, if the reader can forgive the playfulness of his wit in some instances, and the partiality of his friendship in many more), that, in honour of his memory, I would have them published after my death, and the profits arising from the sale of them, applied to the benefit of the Worcester Infirmary.