THE MONTHLY REVIEW.1781 |
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... true value and admiration of Lucian will , after all , I am afraid , in every age and nation , be confined to the judi- cious few , who have a kind of claffic reverence for ancient story , and an enthufiaftic love of the fabulous and ...
... true value and admiration of Lucian will , after all , I am afraid , in every age and nation , be confined to the judi- cious few , who have a kind of claffic reverence for ancient story , and an enthufiaftic love of the fabulous and ...
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... true Grecian perfection in the world of fcience and literature . At fuch a period to emerge from the darkness of fcholaftic jargon , and fhine forth , as you did , in all the luftre of claffic purity , was a fingular phænomenon , and ...
... true Grecian perfection in the world of fcience and literature . At fuch a period to emerge from the darkness of fcholaftic jargon , and fhine forth , as you did , in all the luftre of claffic purity , was a fingular phænomenon , and ...
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... true humour ( and almoft every line of Lucian is a proof of it ) ; it never laughs itself , whilft it fets the table in a roar ; a circumftance which these gentlemen feem all to have for- gotten instead of thofe fet features , and ...
... true humour ( and almoft every line of Lucian is a proof of it ) ; it never laughs itself , whilft it fets the table in a roar ; a circumftance which these gentlemen feem all to have for- gotten instead of thofe fet features , and ...
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... true eloquence , against which our own age will be beft preferved by studying the unaffected fimplicity , and copying the folid and manly graces , of the invaluable models of antiquity . Dr. F. has tranflated all the works of Lucian ...
... true eloquence , against which our own age will be beft preferved by studying the unaffected fimplicity , and copying the folid and manly graces , of the invaluable models of antiquity . Dr. F. has tranflated all the works of Lucian ...
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... true , that there are more worlds than one . And the former hiftorian , in his zeal against novelties , carries the point of orthodoxy fo far beyond its own limits , as to fet down those harmless star - gazers in the black lift of ...
... true , that there are more worlds than one . And the former hiftorian , in his zeal against novelties , carries the point of orthodoxy fo far beyond its own limits , as to fet down those harmless star - gazers in the black lift of ...
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Page 104 - ... and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 207 - For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Page 103 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts:— but to dive into the depths of...
Page 195 - Adieu to canals, circular basons, and cascades tumbling down marble steps, that last absurd magnificence of Italian and French villas. The forced elevation of cataracts was no more. The gentle stream was taught to...
Page 292 - ... without being checked either by the prejudices of education or by the clamours of the multitude.
Page 398 - But if our Gofpel be hid, it is hid to them that are loft: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not.
Page 192 - He was not only consulted for furniture, as frames of pictures, glasses, tables, chairs, etc., but for plate, for a barge, for a cradle. And so impetuous was fashion, that two great ladies prevailed on him to make designs for their birthday gowns. The one he dressed in a petticoat decorated with columns of the five orders ; the other like a bronze, in a copper-coloured satin, with ornaments of gold.
Page 436 - ... that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that believing we might have life through his name,
Page 449 - The skilful practitioners of the medical art will determine (if they are able to determine) how far the temper of the human mind may be affected by the use of animal or of vegetable food ; and whether the common association of...
Page 292 - Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.