Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames: One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and One of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland Containing Sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement in Scotland During the Greater Part of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 |
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Page 309 - The gallant-minded, popular Lord Lovell, The minion of the people's love. I hear He's come into the country, and my aims are To insinuate myself into his knowledge, And then invite him to my house. MAR. I have you; This points at my young mistress.
Page 305 - On a suit of fourteen groats, bought of the hangman, To grow rich, and then purchase, is too common ; But this Sir Giles feeds high, keeps many servants, Who must at his command do any outrage ; Rich in his habit, vast in his expenses; Yet he to admiration* still increases In wealth and lordships. ORD. He frights men out of their estates, And breaks through all law-nets, made to curb ill men, As they were cobwebs. No man dares reprove him.
Page 53 - I remember that when I asked our famous Harvey, in the only discourse I had with him, which was but a little while before he died, what were the things which induced him to think of a circulation of the blood, he answered me, that when he took notice that the valves in the veins of so many parts of the body were so placed that they gave free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the...
Page 48 - The works of art are exerted with interrupted force, and their noisy progress discovers the obstructions they receive; but the earth, with a silent steady rotation, successively presents every part of its bosom to the sun; at once imbibing nourishment and light from that parent of vegetation and fertility. But not only provisions of heat and light...
Page 295 - May be so well duguis'd, and so improv'd, That with some justice it may pass for yours; But then you must not copy trivial things, Nor word for word too faithfully translate...
Page 38 - Suppose that a countryman being in a clear day brought into the garden of some famous mathematician, should see there one of those curious gnomonic instruments, that show at once the place of the sun in the zodiac, his declination from the equator, the day of the month, the length of the day, &c., &c.
Page 173 - I replied nothing. He has said that religion is my trade, and trade is my religion. Commerce and its connections have, it is true, been favourite objects of my attention, and where is the crime? And as for religion, I have attended carefully to the duties of my parish : nor have I neglected my cathedral. The world knows something of me as a writer on religious subjects; and I will add, which the world does not know, that I have written near three hundred sermons, and preached them all, again and...
Page 50 - ... gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads his walks with flowers, and his table with plenty ; returns with interest every good committed to her care ; and, though she produces the poison, she still supplies the antidote ; though constantly...
Page 306 - Thou art a fool; In being out of office I am out of danger; Where, if I were a justice, besides the trouble, I might or out of wilfulness or error Run myself finely into a premunire* And so become a prey to the informer. No, I'll have none oft; 'tis enough I keep Greedy at my devotion; so he serve My purposes, let him hang or damn, I care not; Friendship is but a word.
Page 306 - tis said He will nor sell, nor borrow, nor exchange ; And his land, lying in the midst of your many lordships, Is a foul blemish.