This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...by benignity and intelligence, and endowed with an immortal soul? How should a mere inanimate substance be ever capable of vying with the display of mind in the human countenance? or what brilliancy can gems and senseless matter add to the beams of benevolence and affection, emitted from the eye of a lovely woman, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...by benignity and intelligence, and endowed with an immortal soul? How should a mere inanimate substance be ever capable of vying with the display of mind in the human countenance? or what brilliancy can gems and senseless matter add to the beams of benevolence and affection, emitted from the eye of a lovely woman, and diffusing a gleam of light on all around her? They can have no unison of character: hut instead of adding lustre, must debase and contaminate the brightness of living beauty and deteriorate what is divine and intellectual. Bishop Hough. Do you then venture, Mr. Lyttelton, to exclude diamonds from your thirty-nine articles of female attire? and will not a synod of matrons condemn such a doctrine as heresy? Mr. Lyttelton. Their matron rights, my Lord Bishop, I respect, and do not presume to invade. I am ready to indulge those who may want it, in the glow worm privilege of shining in diamonds, and displaying that species of lustre, which in vegetable nature is generally recognised as the symptom of decay. Let them, if they prefer it. continue to enjoy the costly ornament, which our dramatic poet has ascribed to the terrific goddess, Adversity; "Which like the toad, ugly and venemous, "Bears yet a precious jewel in its head." But, that youthful and resistless charms should be incumbered by armour so unnecessary, I cannot agree. A licence to wear diamonds should never be granted, but as a compensation for the loss of youth and beauty. Bishop Gibson. Will not, however, some of your fair friends, Mr. Lyttelton, who are attached to these ornaments, be disposed to consider this invective against diamonds, as a defence of your purse? Me. Lyttelton. If ray Eve, as the Bishop of Worcester calls her, do not think so, I shall be indifferent t...
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Used-Good. Good hardback in half-leather. Bound in brown calf half-leather, with marbled boards & page fore-edges. [i]-xii, [i]-264 (no half-title). Armorial bookplate with elephant (Pakington) & owners' names on front end paper; end papers slightly stained; board edges a little worn; spine backstrip faded & scuffed; red leather title label.
