Part 7 (1/2)

12 _Reign of George III, 1820 back to 1760--Example written in 1800_

”There is, it will be confessed, a delicate sensibility to character, a sober desire of reputation, a wish to possess the esteeood, felt by the purest ance or vanity The humility of a noble mind scarcely dares approve of itself, until it has secured the approbation of others Very different is that restless desire of distinction, that passion for theatrical display, which inflames the heart and occupies the whole attention of vain ood man is jealous over hi itself with their motive, should diminish their value; the vain man perforood es his duty, and shuns ostentation; the vain ood deed lost that is not publickly displayed The one is intent upon realities, the other upon semblances: the one aims to _be_ virtuous, the other to _appear_ so”--ROBERT HALL: _Serton's Farewell Address--Example written in 1796_

”Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotisreat pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens The ht to respect and cherish them A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and publick felicity Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that ion Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of a peculiar structure; reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national ious principle”--GEORGE WAshi+NGTON

14 _From Dr Johnson's Life of Addison--Example written about 1780_

”That he alrote as he would think it necessary to write now, cannot be affirmed; his instructions were such as the character of his readers e which now circulates in common talk, was in his ti, were not ashanorance; and in the feuished only to be censured His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity, by gentle and unsuspected conveyance, into the gay, the idle, and the wealthy; he therefore presented knowledge in theform, not lofty and austere, but accessible and familiar When he shewed theht easily be supplied His attempt succeeded; inquiry akened, and coance was excited, and froradually exalted, and conversation purified and enlarged”--SAMUEL JOHNSON: _Lives_, p 321

15 _Reign of George II, 1760 back to 1727--Example written in 1751_

”We Britons in our tie may sufficiently shew Our Terms in _polite Literature_ prove, that this ca_, that these came from Italy; our Phrases in _Cookery_ and _War_, that we learnt these froation_, that ere taught by the _Fles_ and _Low Dutch_ These e ularity_ and _analogy_ Yet we have this advantage to coain in _Copiousness_, in which last respect few Languages will be found superior to our own”--JAMES HARRIS: _Here I, 1727 back to 1714--Example written about 1718_

”There is a certain coldness and indifference in the phrases of our European languages, when they are compared with the Oriental forms of speech: and it happens very luckily, that the Hebrew idiorace and beauty Our language has received innuancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraises in holy writ They give a force and energy to our expressions, warhts in more ardent and intense phrases, than any that are to be ue”--JOSEPH ADDISON: _Evidences_, p 192

17 _Reign of Queen Anne, 1714 to 1702--Example written in 1708_

”Some by old words to Fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, s, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile”

”In words, as fashi+ons, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastick, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside”

ALEXANDER POPE: _Essay on Criticism_, l 324-336

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18 _Reign of William III, 1702 to 1689--Example published in 1700_

”And e see a Man of _Milton's_ Wit _Chiainst _Hirelings_! We find How Easie it is for _Folly_ and _Knavery_ to Meet, and that they are Near of Kin, tho they bear Different Aspects Therefor since _Milton_ has put himself upon a _Level_ with the _Quakers_ in this, I will let theether And take as little Notice of his _Buffoonry_, as of their _Dulness_ against _Tythes_ Ther is nothing worth _Quoting_ in his _Laument_ in it, is fully Consider'd in what follows”--CHARLES LESLIE: _Divine Right of tithes, Pref_, p xi

19 _Reign of James II, 1689 back to 1685--Example written in 1685_

”His conversation, wit, and parts, His knowledge in the noblest useful arts, Were such, dead authors could not give; But habitudes of those who live; Who, lighting hihts receive: He drain'd froment true: That the eonly less”

JOHN DRYDEN: _Ode to the Men of Charles II, 1685 to 1660--Example from a Letter to the Earl of Sunderland, dated, ”Philadelphia, 28th 5th mo July, 1683”_

”And I will venture to say, that by the help of God, and such noble Friends, I will show a Province in seven years, equal to her neighbours of forty years planting I have lay'd out the Province into Countys Six are begun to be seated; they lye on the great river, and are planted about six , and two deep,--has a navigable river on each side, the least as broad as the Thaht fathohty houses, and I have settled at least three hundred faruous to it”--WILLIAM PENN

_The Friend_, Vol vii, p 179

21 _From an Address or Dedication to Charles II--Written in 1675_

”There is no [other] king in the world, who can so experioodness; neither is there any [other], who rules sorenders thy government more honourable, thyself more considerable, than the accession of many nations filled with slavish and superstitious souls”--ROBERT BARCLAY: _Apology_, p viii

22 The following example, from the commencement of _Paradise Lost_, first published in 1667, has been cited by several authors, to sho large a proportion of our language is of Saxon origin The thirteen words in Italics are the only ones in this passage, which seem to have been derived from any other source

”Of man's first _disobedience_, and the _fruit_ Of that forbidden tree, whose _ht death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of _Eden_; till one greater Man _Restore_ us, and _regain_ the blissful _seat_, Sing, heav'nly _Muse_, that on the _secret_ top Of _Oreb_, or of _Sinai_, didst _inspire_ That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of _Chaos_”--MILTON: _Paradise Lost_, Book I

23 _Exa Cromwell's Protectorate, 1660 to 1650_