Memoirs of Modern Philosophers, Volume 2

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R. Cruttwell, 1804 - Philosophers, Modern - 402 pages
 

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Page 368 - Is there, in human form, that bears a heart — A wretch ! a villain ! lost to love and truth ! That can, with studied, sly, ensnaring art, Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting youth? Curse on his perjur'd arts ! dissembling smooth ! Are honour, virtue, conscience, all exil'd?
Page 1 - Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em, And, oft repeating, they believe 'em...
Page 92 - Sydney after the death of her mother, fhc mewed me a letter fhe had juft received from Henry. The fentiments were fo tender, fo delicate, fo affectionate, I perceived in every word the traces of a mind formed for the pure delightful congeniality of mutual tendernefs. A thoufand inftances of his particular attention to me, the laft time he was at home, rufhed upon my mind.
Page 84 - I could aftually, at the. age of five years, repeat the whole hiftory of the Glafs Slipper, without miffing a fingle word! * Having been a remarkably unhealthy child, I was even at this age fo weak and rickety as to be fcarcely able to walk; but as...
Page 321 - ... you will look back to the cheerful fire-fide of your father, and fay, with the wife king of Ifrael, furely, ' Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a flailed ox and hatred therewith.
Page 165 - With wifhes rais'd, with jealoufies oppreft, (Alternate tyrants of the human breaft) By one great trial he refolves to prove The faith of woman, and the force of love.
Page 81 - The firtt of thefe charafterforming eras was the hour of my birth. The midwife who was to attend my mother, happening to be a mile or two out of town, her delay fuddenly excited an energetic impetuofity which fcorned to wait for her arrival, and generated a noble fpirit of independence, which brought me into the world without affiltancf.
Page 82 - I haften to inform you, that my mother not being able to fuckle me herfelf, a young woman was brought into the houfe to be my wet-nurfe, who fome months before had borne a, child to the parifhclerk. He kept a little day-fchool in Muddy-lane ; and Jenny...
Page 37 - ... are weighed down, lefs abortive, or attended with confequences lefs deplorable. " Has any of us, in the ferment of youthful paffion, bound himfelf by marriage? In vain does he ftruggle to throw off the yoke; he is bound by the chains of this abfurd and immoral...
Page 38 - ... by the galling yoke of law, do not fo much as believe in a Supreme Being, and have neither any code of laws, nor any form of government! " Let us join this pure and enlightened race! Let us haften to quit the corrupt...

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