The British Prose Writers, Том 16J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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... wish there were many places of a thou- sand a year at Oxford , to keep first - rate men of learning from quitting the university . " Undoubt- edly , if this were the case , literature would have a still greater dignity and splendour at ...
... wish there were many places of a thou- sand a year at Oxford , to keep first - rate men of learning from quitting the university . " Undoubt- edly , if this were the case , literature would have a still greater dignity and splendour at ...
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... wish to attain , although , perhaps , he may not take the trouble necessary for attaining it . " Talking of a young man who was uneasy from thinking that he was very deficient in learning and knowledge , he said , " A man has no reason ...
... wish to attain , although , perhaps , he may not take the trouble necessary for attaining it . " Talking of a young man who was uneasy from thinking that he was very deficient in learning and knowledge , he said , " A man has no reason ...
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... wish could attain it , he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle . " He took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading , and combated the idle superficial notion , that knowledge enough may be acquired in conver- sation ...
... wish could attain it , he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle . " He took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading , and combated the idle superficial notion , that knowledge enough may be acquired in conver- sation ...
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... wish to know more about Mr. Ballow , Johnson said , " Sir , I have seen him but once these twenty years . The tide of life has driven us different ways . " In fact , whoever quits the creeks of private con- nexions , and fairly gets ...
... wish to know more about Mr. Ballow , Johnson said , " Sir , I have seen him but once these twenty years . The tide of life has driven us different ways . " In fact , whoever quits the creeks of private con- nexions , and fairly gets ...
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... wish to relieve them . When I am on my way to dine with a friend , and finding it late , have bid the coachman make haste , if I happen to attend when he whips his horses , I may feel unpleasantly that the ani- mals are put to pain ...
... wish to relieve them . When I am on my way to dine with a friend , and finding it late , have bid the coachman make haste , if I happen to attend when he whips his horses , I may feel unpleasantly that the ani- mals are put to pain ...
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Страница 110 - ... thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments ; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle ; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon 'Change ; a...
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Страница 7 - I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the foundation of lasting mischief; you make brothers and sisters hate each other.
Страница 132 - Well, Madam, and you ought to be perpetually watching. It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Страница 35 - Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet ,with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.' Goldsmith's abridgement is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius ; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling-, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining...
Страница 153 - Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Now I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant, ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine, which came in such a year ; it lies in such a corner* of the cellars.' I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things.
Страница 162 - A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Страница 60 - Yes, Sir." BOSWELL. " He has a singular talent of exhibiting character." JOHNSON. " Sir, it is not a talent, it is a vice ; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers : it is farce, which exhibits individuals.