Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: In Three VolumesJohn Darby, 1727 |
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Página 207 - The moral artist who can thus imitate the Creator, and is thus knowing in the inward form and structure of his fellow-creature, will hardly, I presume, be found unknowing in himself, or at a loss in those numbers which make the harmony of a mind.
Página 294 - The passion of fear', as a modern philosopher informs me, 'determines the spirits to the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity in order to remove the body out of harm's way.
Página 201 - Much more is this the case in dialogue. For here the author is annihilated, and the reader, being no way applied to, stands for nobody. The self-interesting parties both vanish at once.
Página 17 - The magistrate, if he be any artist, should have a gentler hand, and instead of caustics, incisions, and amputations, should be using the softest balms, and, with a kind sympathy, entering into the concern of the people, and taking, as it were, their passion upon him, should, when he has soothed and satisfied it, endeavour, by cheerful ways, to divert and heal it. This was ancient policy : and hence, as a notable author of our nation expresses it, it is necessary a people should have a public leading...
Página 173 - For so true a reverence has every one for himself when he comes clearly to appear before his close companion, that he had rather profess the vilest things of himself in open company than hear his character privately from his own mouth. So that we may readily...
Página 142 - AND thus, after all, the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of a face ; and true proportions the beauty of architecture ; as true measures that of harmony and music.
Página 119 - The true courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal bullying insolence; and in the very time of danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free.
Página 14 - Should physicians endeavour absolutely to allay those ferments of the body, and strike in the humours which discover themselves in such eruptions, they might, instead of making a cure, bid fair perhaps to raise a plague, and turn a spring-ague or an autumn-surfeit into an epidemical malignant fever. They are certainly as ill...
Página 127 - I know, too, that the mere vulgar of mankind often stand in need of such a rectifying object as the gallows before their eyes. Yet I have no belief that any man of a liberal education, or common honesty, ever needed to have recourse to this idea in his mind, the better to restrain him from playing the knave.
Página 15 - Thus popular fury may be called panic when the rage of the people, as we have sometimes known, has put them beyond themselves ; especially where religion has had to do. And in this state their very looks are infectious. The fury flies from face to face ; and the disease is no sooner seen than caught.