Letters Concerning the English NationL. Davis and C. Reymers; R. Baldwin, and S. Crowder and Company, 1760 - 255 sivua |
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Sivu 63
... beauty of their children , the only thing remaining was , to give them the Small - pox in their infant years . This they did , by inoculating , in the body of a child , puftle taken from the most regular , and at the fame time the most ...
... beauty of their children , the only thing remaining was , to give them the Small - pox in their infant years . This they did , by inoculating , in the body of a child , puftle taken from the most regular , and at the fame time the most ...
Sivu 65
... beauty . UPON a general calculation , threescore perfons in every hundred have the Small- pox . Of these threefcore , twenty die of it in the most favourable feafon of life , and as many more wear the difagreeable re- mains of it in ...
... beauty . UPON a general calculation , threescore perfons in every hundred have the Small- pox . Of these threefcore , twenty die of it in the most favourable feafon of life , and as many more wear the difagreeable re- mains of it in ...
Sivu 252
... beauty , we likewife ought to fay geometrical and medicinal beauty ; and yet we don't say so , the reafon of which is , we know very well what is the object of geo- metry , and what is the object of phyfic ; but we do not know what that ...
... beauty , we likewife ought to fay geometrical and medicinal beauty ; and yet we don't say so , the reafon of which is , we know very well what is the object of geo- metry , and what is the object of phyfic ; but we do not know what that ...
Sivu 253
... beauty , merely becaufe we do not kno.v " what is the object of poetry ; and that the only rea- " fon why we do not fay medicinal beauty , and geome " trical beauty , is because the objects of geometry " and phyfic are known ? The only ...
... beauty , merely becaufe we do not kno.v " what is the object of poetry ; and that the only rea- " fon why we do not fay medicinal beauty , and geome " trical beauty , is because the objects of geometry " and phyfic are known ? The only ...
Sivu 254
... beauty , and geometrical beauty , " is because the objects of phyfic and geometry " do not require ornaments , and are not fufceptible " of them . But we fay poetical beauty ; and that , " not through ignorance , but because its object ...
... beauty , and geometrical beauty , " is because the objects of phyfic and geometry " do not require ornaments , and are not fufceptible " of them . But we fay poetical beauty ; and that , " not through ignorance , but because its object ...
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Sivu 171 - And screen'd in shades from day's detested glare, She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her, side, and Megrim at her head.
Sivu 139 - Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Sivu 149 - He spoke of his works as of trifles that were beneath him ; and hinted to me, in our first conversation, that I should visit him upon no other foot than that of a gentleman, who led a life of plainness and simplicity.
Sivu 170 - For, that sad moment, when the sylphs withdrew, And Ariel weeping from Belinda flew, Umbriel, a dusky, melancholy sprite, As ever sullied the fair face of light, Down to the central earth, his proper scene, Repair'd to search the gloomy cave of Spleen.
Sivu 18 - ... is both to God and man : If after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy heart, but forget him, who remembered thee in thy distress, and give up thyself to follow lust and vanity; surely great will be thy condemnation.
Sivu 136 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Sivu 148 - He was infirm and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve had one defect, which was his entertaining too mean an idea of his first profession (that of a writer), though it was to this he owed his fame and fortune.
Sivu 18 - Against which snare as well as the temptation of those that may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to that Light of Christ, which shineth in thy...
Sivu 135 - To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Sivu 171 - She sighs for ever on her pensive bed, Pain at her side, and Megrim at her head. Two handmaids wait the throne: alike in place, But differing far in figure and in face.