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... distinguished by a gradual Rife from abfolute fimplicity to confum- mate elegance . The fimplicity is abfolute , when the Language is merely what the thought makes it . Elegance implies a Choice ; but the choice muft feem to spring from ...
... distinguished by a gradual Rife from abfolute fimplicity to confum- mate elegance . The fimplicity is abfolute , when the Language is merely what the thought makes it . Elegance implies a Choice ; but the choice muft feem to spring from ...
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... distinguished by the virtues of the heart , as by the advantages of the mind . I LETTER IV . MY DEAR BOY , Bath , April the 16th , 1739 . RECEIVED your letter , and if you go on to learn at this rate , you will foon puzzle me , in Greek ...
... distinguished by the virtues of the heart , as by the advantages of the mind . I LETTER IV . MY DEAR BOY , Bath , April the 16th , 1739 . RECEIVED your letter , and if you go on to learn at this rate , you will foon puzzle me , in Greek ...
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... distinguished for your good - breeding .. The first principle of this good - breeding is never to say any thing that you think can be difagreeable to any body in company ; but , on the contrary , you should endeavour to fay what will be ...
... distinguished for your good - breeding .. The first principle of this good - breeding is never to say any thing that you think can be difagreeable to any body in company ; but , on the contrary , you should endeavour to fay what will be ...
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... distinguished figures , such as minitters , wits , and beauties ; but then I most ab- furdly and imprudently neglected , and confequently offended all others . By this folly I made myself a thoufand thousand enemies of both fexes ; who ...
... distinguished figures , such as minitters , wits , and beauties ; but then I most ab- furdly and imprudently neglected , and confequently offended all others . By this folly I made myself a thoufand thousand enemies of both fexes ; who ...
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abfolute Adieu againſt almoſt anſwer auffi becauſe beſt bien breaft c'eft called cauſe CHER confequence confiderable Connal courfe CRIMORA Dargo daughter Daura deferves defire Dermid diſtinguiſh Engliſh eſtabliſhed étui expreffion faid fair fait fame faut Fear-comhraic fenfe feven fhall fhield fhould filks Fingal firſt flain Florus fnow fome foon foul fpeak friends ftones ftorm ftream fubject fucceeded fuch fure fword good-breeding Goths greateſt happineſs heath hill himſelf Hippomenes homme Houſe King laft Lamderg language laſt learning leaſt LETTER DEAR BOY maid Maittaire Manners moft MORNA moſt muft Muirnin muſt myſelf neceffary obferve Ofcian Ofcur paffion Perfia perfon pleafing pleaſe pleaſure praiſe prefent profe qu'il raiſe reft rife rock Romans Ronnan Seventeen Provinces ſhall ſhe Shilric Spain ſpeak ſtyle thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tomb tout uſe verfes voice wind yourſelf
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Page 16 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 53 - RYNO The wind and the rain are past: calm is the noon of day. The clouds are divided in heaven. Over the green hills flies the inconstant sun. Red through the stony vale comes down the stream of the hill. Sweet are thy murmurs, O stream! but more sweet is the voice I hear. It is the voice of Alpin, the son of song, mourning for the dead!
Page 51 - ALONE, on the sea-beat rock, my daughter was heard to complain. Frequent and loud were her cries. What could her father do? All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon.
Page v - Epifodes of a greater Work which related to the Wars of Fingal, Concerning this Hero innumerable Traditions remain, to this Day, in the Highlands of Scotland. The...
Page 55 - A tree with scarce a leaf, long grass which whistles in the wind, mark to the hunter's eye the grave of the mighty Morar.
Page 21 - Connal ? and who recount thy fathers ? Thy family grew like an oak on the mountain, which meeteth the wind with its lofty head. But now it is torn from the earth.
Page 8 - This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...
Page vii - It is believed, that, by a careful inquiry, many more remains of ancient genius, no lefs valuable than thofe now given to the world, might .be found in the fame country where thefe have been collected.
Page 47 - Close it not till Colma come. My life flies away like a dream! why should I stay behind?
Page 24 - Oscian, prince of men! what tears run down the cheeks of age? what shades thy mighty soul? Memory, son of Alpin, memory wounds the aged. Of former times are my thoughts; my thoughts are of the noble Fingal.