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 ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 |
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Page 313 - 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.
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 314 - 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 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.
Page 303 - 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 139 - ... body there remained any consciousness of what passes upon earth. His blood, we think, calls aloud for vengeance. The very ashes of the dead seem to be disturbed at the thought that his injuries are to pass unrevenged.
Page 143 - The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary spectacle, and therefore a less efficacious method of deterring others, than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned, as a beast of burthen, to repair, by his labour, the injury he has done to society.
Page 316 - I would have thee seek him out, and, if thou canst, Persuade him that 'tis better steal than beg; Then, if I prove he has but robb'da henroost, Not all the world shall save him from the gallows.
Page 38 - It would indeed be presumption in him, being unacquainted both with the mathematical disciplines, and the several intentions of the artist, to pretend or think himself able to discover all the ends for which so curious and elaborate a piece was framed ; but when he sees it furnished...
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...