The British Essayists;
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ISBN13: 9780217067119
Paperback|9780217067119
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: N 28. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17. Mi;? aya y la.v ra; TiiM-fa; dpefa.;, cay xai roj AA' tKilva.; wv 8$e); a.' TtorrjCtf ISOCRATES, Epist. II. We should ouly value ourselves upon these attainments which are out of the reach of pitiful miuds. I Know of nothing which creates in the mind a more tormenting jealousy of other men's success and celebrity, and contributes more to make our old-age the season of impotent regret, than the consciousness of having lived below the measure of our abilities, in contradiction U nature's design in the talents with which she has furnished us. The weightier part of those sorrows which years accumulate, are in a manner the revenge which they take upon us for having suffered them to mature our faculties, without illustrating them in our turn by any honourable occurrence or record of utility. That broad and level road of life, which leads to the common sink of mortality, is trodden by multitudes of those whose mould and conformation had qualified them for steep and difficult ascents, for services of high account, and enterprises that demand ability and exercise virtue. To those who, like myself, have courted literature in academical bowers, amidst a crowd of competitors, instances have not been wanting of the truth of this observation. I have seen with sorrow the fair promise of expanding genius, and the expectatiou of many a noble mind, receive a perversion at its first entrance into active life, and, renouncing its privileges at the very threshold of manhood, subside into the common rank of insignificance, and the little detail of vulgar actions and amusements. It is one of the greatest infelicities of Fashion, that she seeks no accommodation with Nature in any of her plans or arrangements; but throws an uniform colouring over one whole ra...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217067119 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217067115 |
| Weight | 0.52 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.35 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 152 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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