The British Essayists: ObserverJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Sivu 93 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Sivu 339 - Aw, are not just, because they do no wrong, But he, who will not wrong me when he may, He is the truly just. I praise not them, Who, in their petty dealings pilfer not, But him, whose conscience spurns a secret fraud, When he might plunder and defy surprise : His be the praise, who, looking down with scorn On the false judgment of the partial herd, Consults his own clear heart, and boldly dares To be — not to be thought — an honest man.
Sivu 234 - ... is an accident of fortune. MEL. No, marriage is rather like a game at bowls: fortune indeed makes the match, and the two nearest, and sometimes the two farthest, are together, but the game depends entirely upon judgment.
Sivu 246 - Almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or sub-parasites. And yet I mean not those that have your bare townart, To know who's fit to feed them; have no house, No family, no care, and therefore mould Tales...
Sivu 26 - ... conjectured, why will not every woman, who has her choice to make, direct her ambition to those objects, which will give her most satisfaction when attained? There can be no reason but because it imposes on her some self-denials by the way, which she has not fortitude to surmount ; and it is plain she does not love fame well enough to be at much pains in acquiring it ; her ambition does not reach at noble ob.
Sivu 344 - Or thrusts himself in crowds, to play th' informer, And put his perjur'd evidence to sale : This a well-order'd city will not suffer ; Such vermin we expel. — " And you do wisely : But what is that to me ? " — Why, this it is : Here we behold you every day at work, Living, forsooth ! not as your neighbours live, But richly, royally, ye gods ! — Why man, We cannot get a fish for love or money, You swallow the whole produce of the sea : You've...
Sivu 299 - So gaunt they seem, that famine never made Of lank Philippides so mere a shade; Of salted tunny-fish their scanty dole, Their beverage, like the frog's, a standing pool, With now and then a cabbage, at the best The leavings of the caterpillar's feast: No comb approaches their...
Sivu 143 - ... first business to contrive a plan and groundwork for the structure of his poem : he saw that it must have uniformity, simplicity, and order, a beginning, a middle, and an end; that the main object must be interesting and important, that the incidents and accessary parts must hinge upon that object, and not wander from the central idea, on which the whole ought to rest; that a subject corresponding thereto, when elevated by language, superior to the phrase and dialogue of the vulgar, would constitute...
Sivu 331 - The lot of all most fortunate is his, Who having staid just long enough on earth To feast his sight with this fair face of nature, Sun, sea, and clouds, and Heaven's bright starry fires, Drops without pain into an early grave. For what is life, the longest life of man, But the same scene repeated o'er and o'er ? A few more ling'ring days to be consum'd In throngs and crowds, with sharpers, knaves, and thieves ; From such the speediest riddance is the best.
Sivu 94 - Erechthonius by immortal hands, if we take the authority of Euripides the tragic poet, after he had reigned fifty years in Athens : in his time the people of Attica, heretofore called Cecropians, took the name of Athenians: Ovid, whose metamorphoses mix much ancient truth with fable, says ' that this prince at his death left it doubtful with posterity, whether he excelled most in justice as a King, or in military glory as a General.