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In fact , the sanctions visibly contrived to compel a man to be just to himself , are
equally ferviceable to compel him to be just to others . This will be evident from a
single reflection , That an action , by being unjust , ceases not to be improper .
In fact , the sanctions visibly contrived to compel a man to be just to himself , are
equally ferviceable to compel him to be just to others . This will be evident from a
single reflection , That an action , by being unjust , ceases not to be improper .
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Were this definition just , a majestic and commanding air , which is a fingular
property , is humour ; as also that natural flow of eloquence and correct elocution
which is a rare talent . Nothing just or proper is denominated humour ; nor any ...
Were this definition just , a majestic and commanding air , which is a fingular
property , is humour ; as also that natural flow of eloquence and correct elocution
which is a rare talent . Nothing just or proper is denominated humour ; nor any ...
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And yet the conclusion in the latter case , would be not less just than in the former
; perhaps more just , for no talent is so often perverted as that of reason . • We
had best leave Nature to her own 0perations . The most valuable talents may be
...
And yet the conclusion in the latter case , would be not less just than in the former
; perhaps more just , for no talent is so often perverted as that of reason . • We
had best leave Nature to her own 0perations . The most valuable talents may be
...
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In order to give a just idea of pronunciation , it must be distinguished from singing
. The latter is carried on by notes , requiring each of them a different aperture of
the windpipe . The notes properly belonging to the former , are expressed by ...
In order to give a just idea of pronunciation , it must be distinguished from singing
. The latter is carried on by notes , requiring each of them a different aperture of
the windpipe . The notes properly belonging to the former , are expressed by ...
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First let the just | | equivalent be paid isisiga Go , threat thy earth - born | |
Myrmidons ; but here Haste to the fierce | | Achilles ' tent ( he cries ) ; ; All but the
ever - wakeful | | eyes of Jove Your own resistless | | eloquence employ I have
upon this ...
First let the just | | equivalent be paid isisiga Go , threat thy earth - born | |
Myrmidons ; but here Haste to the fierce | | Achilles ' tent ( he cries ) ; ; All but the
ever - wakeful | | eyes of Jove Your own resistless | | eloquence employ I have
upon this ...
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Page 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Page 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...
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| Title | Elements of Criticism, Volume 2 Elements of Criticism, Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Publisher | A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
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