Philosophical transactions for the year 1742 and 1743. The first Olynthiac of Demosthenes. Remedy of affiction for the loss of our friends. Dialogue between Alexander the Great, and Diogenes the Cynic. Interlude between Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, and Mercury. The true patriot. The Jacobite's journal. AmeliaJ. Johnson, 1806 |
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... originally intended as an Intro- duction to a Comedy called JUPITER'S Descent on Earth · The TRUE PATRIOT . . The JACOBITE'S JOURNAL AMELIA • · . 61 · . 71 130 141 • 2-18-41 Fev Bequest A L. Cross 1-18-41 1 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS.
... originally intended as an Intro- duction to a Comedy called JUPITER'S Descent on Earth · The TRUE PATRIOT . . The JACOBITE'S JOURNAL AMELIA • · . 61 · . 71 130 141 • 2-18-41 Fev Bequest A L. Cross 1-18-41 1 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS.
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... true , and prescribes philosophy to us , as a certain and in- fallible method to assuage and remove all those perturbations which are liable to affect this nobler part of man . Of the same opinion were all those wise and illus- trious ...
... true , and prescribes philosophy to us , as a certain and in- fallible method to assuage and remove all those perturbations which are liable to affect this nobler part of man . Of the same opinion were all those wise and illus- trious ...
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... true philosophy . Now that this supreme philosophy , this habit of virtue , which strengthened the mind of a Socrates , or a Brutus , is really superior to every evil which can attack us , I make no doubt ; but in truth , this is to ...
... true philosophy . Now that this supreme philosophy , this habit of virtue , which strengthened the mind of a Socrates , or a Brutus , is really superior to every evil which can attack us , I make no doubt ; but in truth , this is to ...
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... true in the more ungrateful article of affliction . The objects of our passions , as well as of our appetites , may be in a great measure de- voured by imagination ; and grief , like hunger , may be so palled and abated by expectation ...
... true in the more ungrateful article of affliction . The objects of our passions , as well as of our appetites , may be in a great measure de- voured by imagination ; and grief , like hunger , may be so palled and abated by expectation ...
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... true , that the loss of a blessing teaches us its true value , will not these ruminations on the certainty of losing our friends , and the uncertainty of our enjoyment of them , add a relish to the present possession ? Shall we not , in ...
... true , that the loss of a blessing teaches us its true value , will not these ruminations on the certainty of losing our friends , and the uncertainty of our enjoyment of them , add a relish to the present possession ? Shall we not , in ...
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Página 456 - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Página 143 - The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country...
Página 434 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 155 - The various accidents which befell a very worthy couple, after their uniting in the state of matrimony, will be the subject of the following history.
Página 338 - She chuckled when a bawd was carted ; And thought the nation ne'er would thrive, Till all the whores were burnt alive.
Página 270 - Mathews, the tenderest of passions is capable of subsiding; nor is absence from our dearest friends so unsupportable as it may at first appear. Distance of time and place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not death but dying which is terrible.
Página 73 - ... different days. Secondly, There is no SENSE in them; to prove this, likewise, I appeal to their works. Thirdly, There is, in reality, NOTHING in them at all. And this also must be allowed by their readers, if paragraphs which contain neither wit, nor humour, nor sense, nor the least importance, may be properly said to contain nothing. Such are the arrival of my Lord with a great equipage, the marriage of Miss of great beauty and merit, and the death of Mr. who was never heard of in his life,...
Página 90 - ... we consider, I say, this handful of men landing in the most desolate corner, among a set of poor, naked, hungry, disarmed slaves, abiding there with impunity till they had, as it were in the face of a large body of his majesty's troops, collected a kind of army or rather rabble together ; if we view this army intimidating the king's forces from approaching them by their situation...
Página 321 - ... who can describe the pleasures ' which the morning air gives to one in perfect ' health ; the flow of spirits which springs up from ' exercise ; the delights which parents feel from ' the prattle, and innocent follies of their children; ' the joy with which the tender smile of a wife in1 spires a husband ; or .lastly, the cheerful, solid ' comfort which a fond couple enjoy in each other's
Página 184 - ... such a creature should be in the way of ruin, as I am afraid she is, by her being alone with that young fellow...