The Rambler: In Four Volumes, Zväzok 4

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W. Strahan [and several others], 1784
 

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Strana 144 - We live not, my fair, in those fabled countries which lying strangers so wantonly describe; where the whole year is divided into short days and nights; where the same habitation serves for summer and winter; where they raise houses in rows above the ground, dwell together from year to year, with flocks of tame animals grazing in the fields about them; can travel at any time from one place to another, through ways inclosed with trees, or over walls raised upon the inland waters; and direct their course...
Strana 144 - The eloquence of Anningait was vain ; the maid continued inexorable, and they parted with ardent promises to meet again before the night of winter. Anningait...
Strana 17 - Every man is rich or poor, according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments : any enlargement of...
Strana 165 - thy ingratitude has put an end to my hopes and experiments : I have now learned the vanity of...
Strana 138 - It is always an ignorant, lazy, or cowardly acquiescence in a false appearance of excellence, and proceeds not from consciousness of our attainments, but insensibility of our wants, Nothing can be great which is not right. Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Strana 212 - When once our labour has begun, the comfort that enables us to endure it is the prospect of its end; for though in every long work there are some joyous intervals of self-applause...
Strana 67 - The greater part of mankind are corrupt in every condition, and differ in high and in low stations only as they have more or fewer opportunities of gratifying their desires, or as they are more or less restrained by human censures.
Strana 139 - ... can confer no valuable or permanent reward; of beings who ignorantly judge of what they do not understand, or...
Strana 220 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Strana 138 - ... by voluntary aggravations. We may charge to design the effects of accident; we may think the blow violent only...

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