An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times: By the Author of Essays on the Characteristics, &cL. Davis, and C. Reymers, 1757 - 221 páginas |
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Affembly Amuſements Applauſe arife ariſe Armies Avarice becauſe beſt Caufes Cauſes ciple Circumftance Commerce Confequence Confideration controuled Country Courſe Delicacy deſpiſed deſtroy Diffipation Difunion Diſtinction Drefs Effects Effeminacy effeminate Manners eſtabliſhed Eſtimate Faction falfe fame Faſhion fecure feems fhall firft firſt fome foon fuch fuppofed Happineſs hath higheſt himſelf Increaſe Induſtry inſtead Intereft Irreligion itſelf laft leaſt lefs loft Luxury Manners and Principles Maxim Meaſures Miniſter modern moft moſt muft muſt national Capacity national Spirit naturally neceffary neral ners Numbers Obfervation Occafion Paffion Period Pleaſure poffeffed preſent Principle of Honour Profeffion Purſuit Queſtion racter Ranks Reaſon regarded Religion reſpective rife ruling Character ruling Manners SECT ſeems ſeen Self-Intereft ſelfiſh ſhall ſhould ſpeak Spirit of Defence Spirit of Union Strength ſtrong Syſtem Tafte Taſte thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thro tion Trade and Wealth Truth unleſs unmanly Vanity Virtue weakened whofe whoſe Wiſdom
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Página 44 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 221 - Whenever this compelling power, necessity, shall appear, then, and not till then, may we hope that our deliverance is at hand. Effeminacy, rapacity, and faction will then be ready to resign the reins they would now usurp. One common danger would create one common interest.
Página 91 - Conftable, in/lead of arming themfelves and encouraging the People, generally fled before the Rebels ; while a Mob of ragged Highlanders marched unmolefted to the Heart of a populous Kingdom.
Página 45 - Vice has lost in coarseness of expression, she has gained in a more easy and general admittance. In ancient days, bare and impudent obscenity, like a common woman of the town, was confined to brothels : whereas the...
Página 13 - Ce n'est pas la fortune qui domine le monde; on peut le demander aux Romains, qui eurent une suite continuelle de prospérités quand ils se gouvernèrent sur un certain plan, et une suite non interrompue de revers lorsqu'ils se conduisirent sur un autre.
Página 43 - Writer, whofe Force of Genius, and Extent of Knowledge, might almoft redeem the Character of the Times. But that Superiority, which attracts the Reverence of the Few, excites the Envy and Hatred of the Many : And while his Works are...
Página 42 - Repofitories of Tafte and Knowledge ; but are rather laid hold of, as a gentle Relaxation from the tedious Round of Pleafure.
Página 49 - But as the attractions of the theatre arife from a complication of caufes, beyond thofe of any other entertainment; fo, while the judicious critic admires his original excellencies, it may well be queftioned, whether the crowd be not drawn by certain fecondary circumftances, rather than by a difcernment of his real powers. Need we any other proof of this than the conduct of his fafhionable hearers, who fit with the fame face of admiration at Lear, an opera, and a pantomime?
Página 26 - Observation, if attended with Impartiality, may convince us, that the Character of the Manners of this Age and Nation, is by no means that of abandoned Wickedness and Profligacy.
Página 82 - Reader will naturally expect to find confidered ; I mean, that of the Clergy. But the general Defect of religious Principle among the higher Ranks, hath rendered this order of Men altogether ufelefs, except among thofe in middle Life, where they ftill maintain a certain Degree of Eftimation.