 | Adam Ferguson - 1805 - 80 trang
...circumstances which we cannot always with honour command ! No : but in a situation where the great sentiments of the heart are awakened; where the characters of men, not their situations and fortunes, are' the principal distinction ; where the anxieties of interest or vanity... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - 1994 - 1398 trang
...to the slow track of the blindworm down the road; who prefers the baptism where the great sentiments of the heart are awakened; where the characters of men, not their situations and fortunes, are the principal distinction; where the anxieties of interest, or vanity,... | |
 | Adam Ferguson - 1789 - 448 trang
...IN what fituation, or by what inftruclion, is this wonderful chara&er to be formed? Is it found^nthe nurferies of affectation, pertnefs, and vanity, from...purfuits that leave its talents and its force unemployed. PROPER occaficns alone operating on a raifed and a h.ippy difpofition, may produce this admirable cffect,... | |
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... precincts of a court, where we may learn to smile without being pleased, to caress without affection, to wound with the secret weapons of envy and jealousy, and to rest our personal importance on circumstances which we cannot always with honour command?... 