 | 1781 - 316 pages
...fimplicity of their lives : That, in the twenty-fir(l year of his age, be was feized with a confumption, which put an end to his life. Nothing, methinks, has...more the power of awakening benevolence, than the confideration of genius thus deprefled by fituation, fuffered to pine in obfcurity, and fometimes,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...the innocence and simplicity of their lives: that in the twenty-first year of his age, he was sei/.ed with a consumption, which put an end to his life....in obscurity, and sometimes, as in the case of this unfortunite young map, to perish, it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniencies which might... | |
 | 1803 - 308 pages
...innocence and simplicity of their lives : that, in the twenty-first year of his age, he was seised witli a consumption, which put an end to his life. Nothing,...might have fostered a delicacy of frame or of mind, ill-calculated to bear the hardships which poverty lays on both. For my own part, I never pass the... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1805 - 452 pages
...haj more the power of awakening bcnevoknce, than the consideB RU rition of genius," thus depresse d by situation, suffered to pine in obscurity, and sometimes, as in the case of this unfouunatc foung man, to perish, it maybe, for want of those comforts and conveniences which might... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 354 pages
...parents remarkable for nothing but the innocence and simplicity of their lives : that in the twenty-first year of his age, he was seized with a consumption,...perish, it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniences which might have fostered a delicacy of frame or of mind, ill calculated to bear the hardships... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...year of his age he was seized with a consumption, which put an end to his life. Nothing, me thinks, has more the power of awakening benevolence, than...to perish, it may be for want of those comforts and conveniences which might have fostered a delicacy of frame, or of mind, ill calculated to bear the... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 pages
...essay on the subject of Bruce's poems, written, I believe, by Lord Craip;. "Nothing," he observes, "has more the power of awakening benevolence, than...case of this unfortunate young man, to perish, it may he, for want of those comforts and conveniences which might have fostered ,a delicacy of frame or of... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 328 pages
...parents remarkable for nothing but the innocence and simplicity of their lives : that in the twenty-first year of his age, he was seized with a consumption,...perish, -it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniences which might have fostered a delicacy of frame or of mind, ill calculated to bear the hardships... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...parents remarkable for nothing but the innocence and simplicity of their lives : that in the twenty-first year of his age he was seized with a consumption,...suffered to pine in obscurity, and sometimes, as in the ease of this unfortunate young man, to perish, it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniences... | |
 | Joseph] [Robertson, Sholto Percy - 1822 - 400 pages
...paper in one of the Mirrors for 1779, written by the lale Lord Craig. " Nothing," says the writer, " has more the power of awakening benevolence than the...perish, it may be, for want of those comforts and conveniences, which might have fostered a delicacy of frame or of mind ill calculated to bear the hardships... | |
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... which put an end to his life. Nothing, methinks, has more the power of awakening benevolence, than the consideration of genius thus depressed by situation, suffered to pine in obscurity, and sometimes, as in the case of this unfortunate young man,... 
