The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Kaiser, 1900 |
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... speak of the fitness of things . Alexander Smith says , in his essay on the " Writing of Essays , " - " The essay , as a literary form , resembles the lyric , in so far as it is molded by some central mood , -whimsical , serious , or ...
... speak of the fitness of things . Alexander Smith says , in his essay on the " Writing of Essays , " - " The essay , as a literary form , resembles the lyric , in so far as it is molded by some central mood , -whimsical , serious , or ...
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... speak , therefore , of physical causes , in regard to any of the phenomena of nature , we mean nothing more than the fact of a certain uniform connection which has been observed between events . Of efficient causes , or the manner in ...
... speak , therefore , of physical causes , in regard to any of the phenomena of nature , we mean nothing more than the fact of a certain uniform connection which has been observed between events . Of efficient causes , or the manner in ...
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... speak the truth , I do very much apprehend , by some of the last winter's productions , which had their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters : at least , a man may be very ...
... speak the truth , I do very much apprehend , by some of the last winter's productions , which had their sets of admirers , that our posterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters : at least , a man may be very ...
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... speaking of it both as a passion and as real fire , surprises the reader with those seeming resemblances or contradictions that make up all the wit in this kind of writing . Mixed wit , therefore , is a composition of pun and true wit ...
... speaking of it both as a passion and as real fire , surprises the reader with those seeming resemblances or contradictions that make up all the wit in this kind of writing . Mixed wit , therefore , is a composition of pun and true wit ...
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... speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and Æneas , " takes it up after him , even in the same age , and makes an ancient heroine of Virgil's new - created Dido ; dictates a letter for her just before her death to the ungrateful fugitive ...
... speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and Æneas , " takes it up after him , even in the same age , and makes an ancient heroine of Virgil's new - created Dido ; dictates a letter for her just before her death to the ungrateful fugitive ...
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Seite 233 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Seite 62 - THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care ; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye ; My noonday walks he shall attend, And all my midnight hours defend.
Seite 234 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Seite 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Seite 313 - Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Seite 309 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Seite 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Seite 72 - Square: it is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love, by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him. Before this disappointment, Sir Roger was what you call a fine gentleman, had often supped with my Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege,' fought a duel upon his first coming to town, and kicked bully Dawson in a public coffee-house for calling him youngster.
Seite 336 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Seite 389 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.