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Page 280 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Page 368 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
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Page 273 - In the third part, he treated at more length of that branch of morality which relates to justice, and which, being susceptible of precise and accurate rules, is for that reason capable of a full and particular explanation.
Page 368 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature beitows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute.
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Page 280 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries.
Page 369 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.
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| Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Volume 7 A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, Robert Chambers Volume 7 of A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: With a Supplemental Volume, Continuing the Biographies to the Present Time, Robert Chambers |
| Author | Thomas Thomson |
| Editor | Robert Chambers |
| Publisher | Blackie, 1855 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jul 2, 2007 |
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