Cato; Or, An Essay on Old Age, Volumen2R. Moncrieffe, 1778 |
Términos y frases comunes
addrefs affection againſt altho amity antient beſt CATO caufe cauſe cerning character CICERO cife circumftances compofed conduct confequence confideration confidered conftitution converfation CORIOLANUS defires diftinguiſhed diſcover Epicurean equally eſteem facred fage fame fatisfaction fays feems fenate fentiments fervice feveral fhall fingular firſt folely fome fons fpecies friendſhip ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport furely greateſt heart himſelf honour human illuftrious impoffible inftance intereft juftly juſt kind leaſt LELIUS leſs likewife meaſures ments mind moft moral moſt muft muſt nature neceffarily neceffary obferve occafion opinion oppoſe OVID paffage paffed paffions perfon philofophers Plut PLUTARCH poffeffed poffibly preſent principles purpoſe queftion racter raiſed reaſon remark republic reſpect Roman Roman republic Rome ſay ſcarcely SCIPIO SCIPIO AFRICANUS ſeems ſenſe ſhip ſhould ſpirit ſtate thefe THEMISTOCLES themſelves theſe thofe thoſe TIBERIUS GRACCHUS tion treatiſe underſtanding univerfally uſed virtue whofe whoſe wiſdom
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Página 72 - Good gods! is there a man upon the face of the earth who would deliberately accept of all the wealth and all the affluence this world can bestow if offered to him upon the severe terms of his being unconnected with a single mortal whom he could love or by whom he should be beloved? This would be to lead the wretched life of a detested tyrant, who, amidst perpetual...
Página 189 - Tully, and a thousand other ancient moralists, without being a greater and a better man for it. On the contrary, I could never read any of our modish French authors, or those of our own country, who are the imitators and admirers of that trifling nation, without being for some time out of humour with myself, and at every thing about me.
Página 65 - me not to leave thee, or to return from " following after thee : for whither thou " goeft, I will go ; and where thou lodgeft " I will lodge : thy people fhall be my " people, and thy God my God : where " thou dieft, will I die, and there will I " be buried : the Lord do fo to me, and " more alfo, if ought but death part thee
Página 197 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening...
Página 72 - Those selfish sensualists, therefore, who, lulled in the lap of luxury, presume to maintain the reverse, have surely no claim to attention ; as they are neither qualified by reflection, nor experience,' to be competent judges of the subject.
Página 235 - The cheated nation's happy fav'rites see ! Mark whom the great caress, who frown on me! London, the needy villain's gen'ral home, The common -sewer of Paris and of Rome ; With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
Página 67 - Upon the whole, then, it may fairly be concluded, that as in the case of virtue, so in that of friendship, those painful sensations, which may sometimes be produced by the one, as well as by the other, are equally insufficient grounds for excluding either of them from taking possession of our bosoms.
Página 239 - ... protesting, that in the whole course of his life he never knew one man, of what condition soever, arrive to any degree of reputation in the world, who made choice or delighted in the company or conversation of those, who in their qualities were inferior, or in their parts not much superior to them.
Página 63 - I have been told likewife, that there is another fet of pretended philofophers...
Página 238 - ... the little he knew, and the little good that was in him, to the friendships and conversation he had still been used to, of the most excellent men in their several kinds that lived in that age...