An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times, Volume 2London, printed. Boston, New-England; re-printed and sold by Green and Russell, at their printing-office in Queen-Street, 1758 - British - 101 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Applaufe arife becauſe Caufes Cauſes ciples Circumftance Commerce Confequences Confideration controuled Country courſe Defect of Principle Defire deſtroy Diffipation Difunion Diſeaſe Diſtinction Drefs Effects of exorbitant Effeminacy effeminate Manners effential Eftimate Enemy eſtabliſhed Eſtimate Excefs exorbitant Trade Faction falfe fame Faſhion fects fecure feems feen felfish fent ferve fhall fhould firft firſt fome foon ftill fuch fuppofed fupport Happineſs hath Hence higheſt Increaſe inftead Intereft Irreligion itſelf Labour laft leading lefs loft Luxury Manners and Principles Maxim Meafures Minifter modern moft moſt muft muſt national Capacity national Spirit naturally neceffary ners Numbers Obfervation Object Occafion Paffion Period Pleafure poffeffed prefent Principle of Honour Profeffion Purfuit Queſtion racter Ranks Reafon Refpect regarded Religion rife ruling Character ruling Manners SECT ſelfiſh Spirit of Defence Spirit of Union Strength Tafte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thro tion Trade and Wealth Truth unmanly vaft Vanity Virtue weakened whofe Wiſdom
Popular passages
Page 108 - Necessity therefore, and necessity alone, must in such a case be the parent of reformation. So long as degenerate and unprincipled manners can support themselves, they will be deaf to reason, blind to consequences, and obstinate in the longestablished pursuit of gain and pleasure.
Page 18 - Dimenfions, vanifh into nothing. vHence the Speculative and Virtuous, in every Age, confining their Views to their own Period, have been apt to aggravate its Manners into the higheft Degree of Guilt; to...
Page 72 - Being here below? The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to day Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 65 - And does not this inevitably tend to relax and weaken the application of the young men of quality and fortune, and render every man, who has reliance on this principle, less qualified for those very stations, which by this very principle he obtains.
Page 71 - The French, in Land Armies, are far our Superiors: They are making large and dreadful Strides towards us, in naval Power. They have more than disputed with us the Empire of the Mediterranean. They are driving us from our Forts and Colonies in America. These are the steddy [sic] Effects of their Principles and Union; of our Deficiency in both
Page 43 - Reader will naturally expect to find confidered. I mean, that of the Clergy. But the general Defect of religious Principle among the higher Ranks, hath rendered this order of Men altogether ufelefs, except among thofe in middle Life, where they ftill maintain a certain Degree of Eftimation.
Page 17 - Obfervation, if attended with Impartiality, may convince us, that the Character of the Manners of this Age and Nation, is by no means that of abandoned Wi eke dnefs and Profligacy.
Page 92 - Tis hard to obtain Certainty in this Particular, without a general Examination and Companfon. But it appears by the Regifters of fome Country Parifhes, which I have looked into, that from the Year 1550 to 1710, the Number of Inhabitants increafed gradually ; the two Extremes being to each other, as 57 to 72 ; and that from 1710 to the prefent Time, the Number has been at a Stand, if not rather diminiflied.
Page 25 - ... in rank and fortune. It will not, I presume, be regarded as any kind of satire on the present age, to say, ' that, among the higher ranks, this literary spirit is generally vanished.
Page 44 - ... the national Capacity; so far, they seem falling into the same unmanly and effeminate Peculiarities, by which their Contemporaries are distinguished : Such of them, I mean, as have Opportunity of conversing with what is called the World, and are supposed to make a Part of it. In their Conduct they curb not, but promote and encourage the trifling Manners of the Times : It is grown a fashionable thing, among these Gentlemen, to despise the Duties of their Parish; to wander about, as the various...