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Page 70 - ... and infinite deformity? Nothing indeed can be more melancholy than the thought of living in a distracted universe, from whence many ills may be suspected and where there is nothing good or lovely which presents itself, nothing which can satisfy in contemplation or raise any passion besides that of contempt, hatred or dislike.
Page 169 - Temper is ever fo little gall'd or fretted. How muft it fare, therefore, with thofe who hardly know any better hours in Life; and who, for the greateft part of it, are agitated by a thorow active Spleen, a clofe and fettled Malignity, and Rancour ? How lively muft be the...
Page 383 - ... of the night, and how uncomfortable even the light of day ! The freezing winds employ their fiercest breath, yet are not spent with blowing. The sea, which elsewhere is scarce confined within its limits, lies here immured in walls of crystal. The snow covers the hills, and almost fills the lowest valleys.
Page 384 - O'ercome and fainting, they seek the shade, and wait the cool refreshments of the night. Yet oft the bounteous Creator bestows other refreshments. He casts a veil of clouds before them, and raises gentle gales...
Page 196 - Solitude they introduc'd ; and that the Moon and Planets which began now to appear, were in reality the only proper Company for a Man in your Humour. For now you began to talk with much Satisfaction of natural Things, and of all Orders of Beautys, MAN only excepted.
Page 31 - So that if a creature be generous, kind, constant, compassionate, yet if he cannot reflect on what he himself does, or sees others do, so as to take notice of what is worthy or honest, and make that notice or conception of worth and honesty to be an object of his affection, he has not the character of being virtuous; for thus, and no otherwise, he is capable of having a sense of right or wrong, a sentiment or judgment of what is done through just, equal, and good affection, or the contrary.
Page 414 - Tis enough if we consider the simplest of figures, as either a round ball, a cube, or dye. Why is even an infant pleased with the first view of these proportions? Why is the sphere or globe, the cylinder and obelisk preferred; and the irregular figures, in respect of these, rejected and despised?
Page 133 - Now, if amongst the superior and easy sort, there be not something of fit and proper employment raised in the room of what is wanting in common labour and toil ; if instead of an application to any sort of work, such as has a good and honest end in society (as letters, sciences, arts, husbandry...
Page 23 - And, thus, if there be found in any creature a more than ordinary self-concernment or regard to private good, which is inconsistent with the interest of the species or public, this must in every respect be esteemed an ill and vicious affection.