Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: In Three Volumes, Volume 1John Baskerville., 1773 - 391 pages |
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Page 219 - No fooner had that nation begun to lofe the roughnefs and barbarity of their manners, and learn of Greece to form their heroes, their orators, and poets on a right model, than by their unjuft attempt upon the liberty of the world, they juftly loft their own.
Page 193 - The skill and grace of writing is founded, as our wise poet tells us, in knowledge and good sense ; and not barely in that knowledge which is to be learnt from common authors, or the general conversation of the world ; but from those particular rules of art...
Page 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.
Page 336 - However this may prove, there can be no kind of writing which relates to men and manners where it is not necessary for the author to understand poetical and moral truth, the beauty of sentiments, the sublime of characters, and carry in his eye the model or exemplar of that natural grace which gives to every action its attractive charm.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 61 - 'tis supposed, may bear all Lights: and one of those principal Lights or natural Mediums, by which Things are to be view'd, in order to a thorow Recognition, is Ridicule it-self, or that Manner of Proof by which we discern whatever is liable to just Raillery in any Subject.
Page 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.
Page 34 - ... instance of this freedom in one of our sacred authors. As patient as Job is said to be, it cannot be denied that he makes bold enough with God and takes his providence roundly to task. His friends, indeed, plead hard with him, and use all arguments, right or wrong, to patch up objections, and set the affairs of providence upon an equal foot.
Page 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.