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 |
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... those who study it . 3. Of the histo- ry of the firft ages ; with reflections on the state of ancient history , profane and facred , 30 LET . IV . r . That there is in history fufficient authenticity to render it useful , notwithstand ...
... those who study it . 3. Of the histo- ry of the firft ages ; with reflections on the state of ancient history , profane and facred , 30 LET . IV . r . That there is in history fufficient authenticity to render it useful , notwithstand ...
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... those he did not convince . But though thefe were very great , yet they were not his only talents ; he was bleffed with parts , and with parts of different kinds , even fuch as the generality are apt to confider as incompatible . His ...
... those he did not convince . But though thefe were very great , yet they were not his only talents ; he was bleffed with parts , and with parts of different kinds , even fuch as the generality are apt to confider as incompatible . His ...
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... those people with whom I have past the first and greatest part of my life . Health and every other natural comfort of life is to be had there . As to imaginary and artificial plea- fures , we are philofophers enough to despise them ...
... those people with whom I have past the first and greatest part of my life . Health and every other natural comfort of life is to be had there . As to imaginary and artificial plea- fures , we are philofophers enough to despise them ...
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... those which writers on the fame fubject have recommended , and which are commonly practifed . But I confess to your Lordship , that this neither gave me then , nor has given me fince , any diftrust of them . I do not affect fingularity ...
... those which writers on the fame fubject have recommended , and which are commonly practifed . But I confess to your Lordship , that this neither gave me then , nor has given me fince , any diftrust of them . I do not affect fingularity ...
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... think I have known most of the first kind in England , and moft of the laft in France . The perfons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in converfation , and and to impofe on company : Who having few ideas 2 Let . I. OF THE STUDY.
... think I have known most of the first kind in England , and moft of the laft in France . The perfons I mean are those who read to talk , to shine in converfation , and and to impofe on company : Who having few ideas 2 Let . I. OF THE STUDY.
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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...