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Page vi
... true relish can there be in the life which is held , not enjoyed , by the permission of another ? Who , under an evil government , can feel any unsophisticated thirst of glory , or be desirous that posterity should know he tasted the ...
... true relish can there be in the life which is held , not enjoyed , by the permission of another ? Who , under an evil government , can feel any unsophisticated thirst of glory , or be desirous that posterity should know he tasted the ...
Page vii
... true taste , and whatever is most excellent and admirable in literature , is to be found . And if these remarks should so far answer my hopes as to direct some slight degree of attention to the vast storehouse of wisdom contained in ...
... true taste , and whatever is most excellent and admirable in literature , is to be found . And if these remarks should so far answer my hopes as to direct some slight degree of attention to the vast storehouse of wisdom contained in ...
Page ix
... true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more cankered in her principles , more soiled and slubbered with aphorisming pe- dantry , than the art of ...
... true foundations of this science , which being of greatest importance to the life of man , yet there is no art that hath been more cankered in her principles , more soiled and slubbered with aphorisming pe- dantry , than the art of ...
Page x
... true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence- magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end - likeness to God , which , in one word , we call godli- ness ; and ...
... true wisdom and virtue , and that which springs from thence- magnanimity ; ( take heed of that ; ) and that which is our beginning , regeneration , and happiest end - likeness to God , which , in one word , we call godli- ness ; and ...
Page xxiii
... true cause , all attempts at recom- mending them to the public must prove fruitless , since their tone can never be lowered , nor can the intellect of the generality ever be raised to the relish of compositions , which , according to ...
... true cause , all attempts at recom- mending them to the public must prove fruitless , since their tone can never be lowered , nor can the intellect of the generality ever be raised to the relish of compositions , which , according to ...
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