An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, L.L.D...Isaac Riley, 1806 - Всего страниц: 559 |
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... able to show , that the writings which he gave to the world , were but transcripts of his mind : and that he evinced his love of virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical taste , no less in his private and unreserved ...
... able to show , that the writings which he gave to the world , were but transcripts of his mind : and that he evinced his love of virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical taste , no less in his private and unreserved ...
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... able to recover , some of them of great length , besides many more that he must have written to his other correspondents , which have escaped my research , or have not been deemed worth the preserving ; when I consider , too , the ...
... able to recover , some of them of great length , besides many more that he must have written to his other correspondents , which have escaped my research , or have not been deemed worth the preserving ; when I consider , too , the ...
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... able to give any account , as it had taken place before my acquaintance with him commenced . It was most probably a journey of curiosity merely : for Beattie was at that time unknown in London , and had scarcely any acquaint ance there ...
... able to give any account , as it had taken place before my acquaintance with him commenced . It was most probably a journey of curiosity merely : for Beattie was at that time unknown in London , and had scarcely any acquaint ance there ...
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... able opinion which such a man as Dr Beattie was pleased to enter- tain of me . I can , however , at the same time assure the reader ( as some apology for myself ) , that I have suppressed much stronger passages of that nature , and a ...
... able opinion which such a man as Dr Beattie was pleased to enter- tain of me . I can , however , at the same time assure the reader ( as some apology for myself ) , that I have suppressed much stronger passages of that nature , and a ...
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... able to discover a method of detecting sophistry , even when one is not able to give a logical confutation of its arguments . I intend farther to enquire into the nature of that modification of intellect which qualifies a man for being ...
... able to discover a method of detecting sophistry , even when one is not able to give a logical confutation of its arguments . I intend farther to enquire into the nature of that modification of intellect which qualifies a man for being ...
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Стр. 306 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Стр. 498 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know he could at least tell where to find.
Стр. 306 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Стр. 543 - Oh, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Стр. 14 - Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, Thy charms my only theme ; My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine Waves o'er the gloomy stream, Whence! the scared owl on pinions grey Breaks from the rustling boughs, And down the lone vale sails away To more profound repose.
Стр. 191 - Reynolds,, who was the intimate and beloved friend of that great man ; the friend whom he declared to be " the most invulnerable man he knew ; whom, if he should quarrel with him, he should find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Стр. 351 - True wit is nature to advantage dressed, — What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Стр. 340 - I know not who will go to heaven if Langton does not. Sir, I could almost say, Sit anima mea cum Langtono.
Стр. 520 - gainst Passion's threatful blast Let steady Reason urge the struggling oar ; Shot through the dreary gloom, the morn at last Gives to thy longing eye the blissful shore. Forget my frailties, thou art also frail ; Forgive my lapses, for thyself may'st fall ; Nor read, unmoved, my artless tender tale, — I was a friend, O man, to thee, to all.
Стр. 79 - See the grisly texture grow, ("Tis of human entrails made,) And the weights, that play below, Each a gasping warrior's head. Shafts for shuttles, dipt in gore, Shoot the trembling cords along Sword, that once a Monarch bore, Keep the tissue close and strong.