The Misscellaneous [sic] Works of the Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, 1. köideA. Donaldson and sold at his shops in London and Edinburgh, 1768 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 43
Page 9
... object of their application . The true and proper object of this ap- plication is a conftant improvement in private and in public virtue . An application to any ftudy , that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us bet- ter men ...
... object of their application . The true and proper object of this ap- plication is a conftant improvement in private and in public virtue . An application to any ftudy , that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us bet- ter men ...
Page 20
... objects , and is made at the expence of ther men whereas that improvement , which is the effect of our own experience , is confined to fewer objects , and is made at our own expence . To ftate the account fairly therefore between thefe ...
... objects , and is made at the expence of ther men whereas that improvement , which is the effect of our own experience , is confined to fewer objects , and is made at our own expence . To ftate the account fairly therefore between thefe ...
Page 24
... can carry us no farther ; for experience can go a very little way back in discover- ing caufes and effects are not the objects of expe- : rience rience till they happen . From hence many errours in 24 Let . II . OF THE STUDY.
... can carry us no farther ; for experience can go a very little way back in discover- ing caufes and effects are not the objects of expe- : rience rience till they happen . From hence many errours in 24 Let . II . OF THE STUDY.
Page 27
... object . The notion of attaching men to the new government , by tempting them to embark their fortunes on the fame bottom , was a reafon of state to fome the notion of creating a new , that is , a moneyed intereft , in oppofition to the ...
... object . The notion of attaching men to the new government , by tempting them to embark their fortunes on the fame bottom , was a reafon of state to fome the notion of creating a new , that is , a moneyed intereft , in oppofition to the ...
Page 28
... object of experience in this . Your lordship , I am fure , fees at once how much a due reflection on the paffages of former times , as they stand recorded in the hiftory of our own , and of other countries , would have deterred a free ...
... object of experience in this . Your lordship , I am fure , fees at once how much a due reflection on the paffages of former times , as they stand recorded in the hiftory of our own , and of other countries , would have deterred a free ...
Common terms and phrases
againſt France allies almoſt becauſe cafe caufe Charles circumftances confequences conftitution county of Burgundy courfe courſe crown defigns defire Dutch Emperour empire engaged England eſtabliſh Europe faid fame favour fecond fecure federacy feemed ferve fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince firft firſt fome fometimes foon fpirit French ftate ftill ftrength ftudy fubjects fucceffion fuccefs fuch fufficient fuppofed fupport fure fyftem grand alliance greateſt himſelf hiſtory houfe of Auftria houſe increaſed inftance intereft King of France King of Spain laft leaſt lefs Lewis the Fourteenth Lord Lordship Low Countries meaſure minifters moft monarchy moſt muft muſt nation neceffary neceffity obferve occafion oppofition ourſelves paffed paffions partition peace perfons Philip poffeffion prefent pretenfions prince purpoſe Queen raiſed reafon ſhe Spaniards Spanish Spanish monarchy ſtate ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thoufand feven hundred thouſand fix hundred treaty treaty of Utrecht uſe whilft whofe whole worfe
Popular passages
Page 293 - The man of business despises the man of pleasure for squandering his time away; the man of pleasure pities or laughs at the man of business for the same...
Page 315 - Believe me, the providence of God has established such an order in the world, that of all which belongs to us the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others. Whatever is best is safest; lies out of the reach of human power; can neither be given nor taken away. Such is this great and beautiful work of nature, the world. Such is the mind of man, which contemplates and admires the world whereof it makes the noblest part. These are inseparably ours, and as long as we remain in one we...
Page 11 - ... met their eyes, and recalled the glorious actions of the dead, to fire the living, to excite them to imitate and even to emulate their great forefathers. The success answered the design. The virtue of one generation was transfused, by the magic of example, into several ; and a spirit of heroism was maintained through many ages of that commonwealth.
Page 103 - ... the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws ; and they must trace the laws of particular states, especially of their own, from the first rough sketches to the more perfect draughts ; from the first causes or occasions, that produced them, through all the effects good and bad that they produced.
Page 339 - ... and virtuous men; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.
Page 22 - I mean consists in this, that the examples which history presents to us, both of men and of events, are generally complete: the whole example is before us, and consequently the whole lesson, or sometimes the various lessons, which philosophy proposes to teach us by this example.
Page 19 - ... passion. But the examples which we find in history, improved by the lively descriptions, and the just applauses or censures of historians, will have a much better and more permanent effect than declamation, or song, or the dry ethics of mere philosophy.
Page 207 - ... centre of union that could keep together the great confederacy then forming: and how much the French feared, from his life, had appeared a few years before, in the extravagant and indecent joy they expressed on a false report of his death. A short time showed how vain the fears of some, and the...
Page 9 - An application to any study that tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and better citizens, is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness, to use an expression of Tillotson: and the knowledge we acquire by it is a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.
Page 102 - There will be none such any more, till in some better age true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...