Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 923 страници |
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... become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps con- stituted hitherto his chief title to superiority . His very talents will be a hin- drance to him ...
... become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps con- stituted hitherto his chief title to superiority . His very talents will be a hin- drance to him ...
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... become more temperate than they had ever been in their own country . In the same manner , the final and permanent fruits of liberty are wisdom , moderation , and mercy . Its immediate effects are often atrocious crimes , conflicting ...
... become more temperate than they had ever been in their own country . In the same manner , the final and permanent fruits of liberty are wisdom , moderation , and mercy . Its immediate effects are often atrocious crimes , conflicting ...
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... become statesmen . The celebrity of the man who refuted it , the " Æneæ magni dextra , " gives it all its fame with the present generation . In that age the state of things was different . It was not then fully understood how vast an ...
... become statesmen . The celebrity of the man who refuted it , the " Æneæ magni dextra , " gives it all its fame with the present generation . In that age the state of things was different . It was not then fully understood how vast an ...
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... become acquainted with the full power of the English language . They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff ...
... become acquainted with the full power of the English language . They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff ...
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... become the business of a distinct class of writers . Of the two kinds of composition into which history has been thus divided ; the one may be compared to a map , the other to a painted landscape . The picture , though it places the ...
... become the business of a distinct class of writers . Of the two kinds of composition into which history has been thus divided ; the one may be compared to a map , the other to a painted landscape . The picture , though it places the ...
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Страница 460 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Страница 422 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Страница 19 - There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear the light of day : he is unable to discriminate colours, or recognise faces.
Страница 23 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
Страница 22 - Then came those days, never to be recalled without a blush — the days of servitude without loyalty, and sensuality without love, of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices, the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds, the golden age of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.
Страница 397 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...
Страница 19 - Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her nature, was condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps,...
Страница 192 - There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Страница 554 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Страница 597 - I shall say the less of Mr Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause when I have so often drawn it for a good one.