The RamblerJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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acquaintance affiftance againſt Ajut amufe Anningait becauſe cenfure cife confidered contempt converfation curiofity danger defign defire diftant diſcover eafily endeavour envy eſcape eſtabliſhed expected expence eyes fame favour fcarcely fcience fecret fecure feems feldom felves fenfe fentiments fhall fhould fince firft firſt folicited folly fome fometimes foon forrow fortune friends friendſhip ftate fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuperiority fupply fupport furely happineſs himſelf honour hope houſe imagination increaſed induſtry infult intereft itſelf kindneſs labour laft laſt learning leaſt lefs loft mankind meaſures ment mifery mind moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary neceffity nefs never NUMB obfcurity obferved occafions ourſelves paffed paffion pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffeffion praiſe prefent promiſe publick purchaſe purpoſe raiſe RAMBLER reafon refolution refolved reft Seged ſhe ſtate ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion underſtanding univerfal uſe vanity vifits virtue whofe whoſe
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Page 90 - ... claims, and is more welcome as it is more gratuitous. Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had...
Page 98 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Page 388 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age.
Page 20 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 223 - ... what are the appearances that thus powerfully excite his risibility, he will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity...
Page 89 - Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind ; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others, and disposes us to resent censures lest we should confess them to be just.
Page 387 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Page 260 - ... can confer no valuable or permanent reward; of beings who ignorantly judge of what they do not understand, or partially determine what they never have examined; and whose sentence is therefore of no weight till it has received the ratification of our own conscience.
Page 21 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Page 117 - But the truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself.