Bentley's Miscellany, Том 19

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Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith
Richard Bentley, 1846
 

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Стр. 292 - Why (said Johnson, smiling, and rolling himself about), that is, because, dearest, you're a dunce.' When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said with equal truth and politeness, ' Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Стр. 496 - Would you know the sentiments, inclinations, and course of life of the Greeks and Romans ? Study well the temper and actions of the French and English. You cannot be much mistaken in transferring to the former most of the observations which you have made with regard to the latter. Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular.
Стр. 39 - Kiss'd my mouth, trembling in the act all over; Accursed was the book and he who wrote ! That day no further leaf we did uncover.
Стр. 66 - It was. Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown : May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more...
Стр. 496 - Ambition, avarice, self-love, vanity, friendship, generosity, public spirit: these passions, mixed in various degrees, and distributed through society, have been, from the beginning of the world, and still are, the source of all the actions and enterprises, which have ever been observed among mankind.
Стр. 496 - Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature, by showing men in all varieties of circumstances and situations, and furnishing us with materials from which we may form our observations and become acquainted with the regular springs of human action and behaviour. These records of wars, intrigues, factions and revolutions are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician or moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science...
Стр. 490 - I was about eighteen years of age, there seemed to be opened up to me a new scene of thought, which transported me beyond measure, and made me, with an ardour natural to young men, throw up every other pleasure or business to apply entirely to it.
Стр. 497 - ... actions, and were every experiment which we could form of this kind irregular and anomalous, it were impossible to collect any general observations concerning mankind ; and no experience, however accurately digested by reflection, would ever serve to any purpose. Why is the aged husbandman more...
Стр. 491 - I found that the moral philosophy transmitted to us by antiquity laboured under the same inconvenience that has been found in their natural philosophy, of being entirely hypothetical, and depending more upon invention than experience : every one consulted his fancy in erecting schemes of virtue and happiness, without regarding human nature, upon which every moral conclusion must depend.
Стр. 251 - They are informed, that, considering the vast consumption of these waters, there is a design laid of excising them next session ; and moreover, that as bathing in the sea is become the general practice of both sexes, and as the kings of England have always been allowed to be masters of the seas, every person so bathing, shall be gauged, and pay so much per foot square as their cubical bulk amounts to.

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