I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end, and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration.

From what has been said, it may be inferred, that the works of nature, if we compare one species with another, are all equally beautiful.

Many years and ages are supposed to have been thus passed in plenty and security; when, at last, a new race of men entered our country from the great ocean.

That every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced, and almost universally confessed, but every day has likewise its pleasures.

Your acceptance of a former letter on painting gives me encouragement to offer a few more sketches on the same subject.

There was a select set, supposed to be distinguished by superiority of intellects, who always passed the evening together.

To require from any author many pieces of easy poetry, would be indeed to oppress him with too hard a task.

I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferior beauties

In the time when Bassora was considered as the school of Asia, and flourished by the reputation of its professors and the confluence of its students

The true art of memory is the art of attention.