I have lived for a great many years in habitudes with those who professed them.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
This alone is a consideration of any importance; because all calculation formed upon a supposed relation of the habitudes of others to our own, under the present circumstances, is weak and fallacious.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another; that different auditors have different habitudes; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith