The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 |
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... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any re- compence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural ...
... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any re- compence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural ...
Side 12
... virtues are choked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless , by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble ...
... virtues are choked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless , by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble ...
Side 25
... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the humour of the company . True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal , false modesty every thing that is unfashionable . The latter is ...
... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the humour of the company . True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal , false modesty every thing that is unfashionable . The latter is ...
Side 26
... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only ...
... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false mo- desty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only ...
Side 39
... virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine poems , while we are distinguished by so many thousand hu- mours , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
... virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine poems , while we are distinguished by so many thousand hu- mours , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
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