The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin; with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW. P. Nimmo & Company, 1881 - 536 страници |
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... understanding ,. 280 Pleasant recollections connected with the metropolis , A tale for a chimney corner , A few thoughts on sleep , Looking upward , 284 • • Deaths of little children , • 386 · 389 • 392 394 Church singing , 284 • A ...
... understanding ,. 280 Pleasant recollections connected with the metropolis , A tale for a chimney corner , A few thoughts on sleep , Looking upward , 284 • • Deaths of little children , • 386 · 389 • 392 394 Church singing , 284 • A ...
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... understanding . Surely Comminius might have made the same judgment also , if it had pleased him , of his second master Louis the Eleventh , whose closeness was indeed his tormentor . The parable of Pythagoras is dark , but true ; " Cor ...
... understanding . Surely Comminius might have made the same judgment also , if it had pleased him , of his second master Louis the Eleventh , whose closeness was indeed his tormentor . The parable of Pythagoras is dark , but true ; " Cor ...
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... understanding it where the contrary fearful natures it may do well : but if they be extreme is no vice . Let not a man force a habit stout and daring , it may precipitate their designs , upon himself with a perpetual continuance , but ...
... understanding it where the contrary fearful natures it may do well : but if they be extreme is no vice . Let not a man force a habit stout and daring , it may precipitate their designs , upon himself with a perpetual continuance , but ...
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... understanding , than in the virtues of the will and affections . There be some have an over - early ripeness in their years , which fadeth betimes : these are first , such as have brittle wits , the edge whereof is soon turned ; such as ...
... understanding , than in the virtues of the will and affections . There be some have an over - early ripeness in their years , which fadeth betimes : these are first , such as have brittle wits , the edge whereof is soon turned ; such as ...
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... ' flattery , if CHARACTER PRINCIPIS - ALEXANDER MAGNUS . they began not there ; if they did but remember | --If men did know what shining fetters , gilded pencil ; for that can speak to the understanding ; BEN JONSON . 39.
... ' flattery , if CHARACTER PRINCIPIS - ALEXANDER MAGNUS . they began not there ; if they did but remember | --If men did know what shining fetters , gilded pencil ; for that can speak to the understanding ; BEN JONSON . 39.
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Страница 72 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Страница 74 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Страница 122 - Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.' I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. ' At length,' said I, ' show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but...
Страница 406 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
Страница 23 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Страница 9 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Страница 311 - ... assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — • indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-brand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think.
Страница 238 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Страница 33 - ... judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Страница 136 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes...