Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair FRSEwas a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth7 April 1718
fitness health exercise
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
worry useless weight
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
heart flow manners
Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.
order temper
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
charity molestation injury
Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.
world violent vicissitudes
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
unhappy misery cruelty
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
sports pain cuckoos
We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.
reflection men views
True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.
clouds giving cheerful
The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
heart
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
offensive tenderness gentleness
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
history quality fundamentals
As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.
judging taste genius
Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.