Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: In Two Parts. ...D. Brown, B. and S. Tooke, G. Strahan, W. Mears, and F. Clay, 1722 - 188 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 91 - By Reading a Man does as it were Antedate his Life, and makes himself contemporary with the Ages past.
الصفحة 92 - Books are a Guide in Youth, and an Entertainment for Age. They support us under Solitude, and keep us from being a Burthen to ourselves. They help us to forget the Crossness of Men and Things; compose our Cares, and our Passions; and lay our Disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the Living, we may repair to the Dead, who have nothing of Peevishness, Pride...
الصفحة 74 - I fuppofe they return loaden like Bees, and disburthen themfelves in the Cells much after the fame manner ? Luc. I have told you the Information is convey'd by ftriking upon the Fibres, and giving them a particular Bent ; which imprints the Chara£ter of the Objeft upon the Mind. Hyl. I fhould almoft as foon imagine, that the ftriking a Viol with the Bow, fhould entertain the Inftrument with its own Mufick.
الصفحة 93 - Spirits of the Understanding, and lays us open to Imposture. But Books well managed afford Direction and Discovery. They strengthen the Organ, and enlarge the Prospect, and give a more universal Insight into Things, than can be learned from unlettered Observation. He who depends only upon his own Experience, has but a few Materials to work upon. He is confined to narrow Limits both of Place and Time : And is not fit to draw a large Model, and to pronounce upon Business which is complicated and unusual.
الصفحة 28 - Proil-faon ; which is nothing thing but a forced and politick Statelinefs for the promoting of Knowledge in Others. The young Fry, whether you know it or not, muft be held at a Diftance, and kept under the Difcipline of Contempt. If you give them any tolerable Quarter, you indulge them in their Idlenefs ; and ruin them to all Intents and Purpofes. For who would be at the Trouble of Learning, when he finds his Ignorance is careffed ; and that he is eafie and acceptable enough in the Company of the...
الصفحة 25 - Mind more chearful and comppfed ; and to endear the Offices of Religion. It fhould therefore imitate the Perfume of the 'Jewish Tabernacle, and have as little of the Compofition of common Ufe as is poflible.
الصفحة 108 - Tis a Difeafe in its Conftitution, and every Palfe is a Pain. Eafe muft be impracticable to the Envious : They lie under a double Misfortune ; common Calamities, and common Bleflings, fall heavily upon them: Their Nature gives them a Share in the one, and their ill-nature in the other. And he that has his own Troubles, and the Happinefsof his Neighbours, to difturb him, is likely to have work enough.
الصفحة 174 - The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute, and all spirit and activity the next, must be an entertaining change.
الصفحة 25 - ... seraphic, fit for a martyr to play and an angel to hear. It should be contrived so as to warm the best blood within us, and to take hold of the finest part of the affections ; to transport us with the Beauty of Holiness, to raise us above the satisfactions of life, and make us ambitious of the glories of heaven.
الصفحة 25 - There must be no voluntary maggots, no military tattoos, no light and galliardizing notes ; nothing that may make the fancy trifling, or raise an improper thought ; this would be to profane the service, and to bring the playhouse into the church.