An historical and critical dictionary, selected and abridged, Volume 21826 |
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Page 139 - Neque mala vel bona, quae vulgus putet: multos, qui conflictari adversis videantur, beatos, at plerosque quamquam magnas per opes miserrimos. si illi gravem fortunam constanter tolerent, hi prospera inconsulte utantur.
Page 205 - And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own! Did we for these Barbarians plant and sow, On these, on these, our happy Fields bestow?
Page 257 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre ; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity...
Page 399 - Ille, datis vadibus, qui rure extractus in urbem est, Solos felices viventes clamat in urbe. Caetera de genere hoc (adeo sunt multa) loquacem Delassare valent Fabium. Ne te morer, audi Quo rem deducam. Si quis deus, en ego...
Page 20 - And to which he attaches the following note from Bayle's Dictionary, under the article Epicurus, note R. "There was among the Heathen Natural Philosophers a great variety of opinions, about the origin of the world, and the nature of the element, or elements, of which they pretended particular bodies to have been formed. Some maintained that water was the principle of all things, others gave that pre-eminence to the air, others to the fire, others to homogeneal parts, &.c., but they all agreed to...
Page 84 - To dalliance, banquet, and ignoble ease. The path to peace is virtue : what I show, Thyself may freely on thyself bestow ; Fortune was never worshipp'd by the wise, But, set aloft by fools, usurps the skies.
Page 105 - Hence it is, that the new romances keep as far on as possible from the romantic way; but by this means true history is made extremely obscure ; and I believe the civil powers will at last be forced to give these new romancers their option; either to write pure history, or pure romance ; or at least to use crotchets to separate the one from the other, truth from fiction.* Art.
Page 337 - I have given you my opinion freely, and perhaps with an appearance of more strictness than is necessary. But I would apply our Lord's words in another case to this : " All men cannot receive this saying; he that is able to " receive it, let him receive it.
Page 251 - ... faith, is no extraordinary thing, but the common effect of a moderate piety. But for a queen to grant her protection to people persecuted for opinions which she believes to be false ; to open a sanctuary to them , to preserve them from the flames prepared for them ; to furnish them with a subsistence ; liberally to relieve the troubles and inconveniences of their exile, is an...
Page 275 - To mimic death as he had mimic'd life, So well, or rather ill, perform'd his part, That Death, delighted with his wondrous art, Snatch'd up the copy, to the grief of France, And made it an original at once.