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 Seiten |
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... give a fair view of the wealth and broad expanse of the writings of the British Essay- ists , beginning with Lord Bacon's " Essays , Civil and Moral , " and ending with the brilliant periodical contributions of Macaulay and Carlyle ...
... give a fair view of the wealth and broad expanse of the writings of the British Essay- ists , beginning with Lord Bacon's " Essays , Civil and Moral , " and ending with the brilliant periodical contributions of Macaulay and Carlyle ...
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... give alms to dogs and birds : insomuch , as Bus- bechius reporteth , a Christian boy in Constanti- nople had like to have been stoned , for gagging , in a waggishness , a long - billed fowl . Errors , indeed , in this virtue of goodness ...
... give alms to dogs and birds : insomuch , as Bus- bechius reporteth , a Christian boy in Constanti- nople had like to have been stoned , for gagging , in a waggishness , a long - billed fowl . Errors , indeed , in this virtue of goodness ...
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... give it in precept ; for there be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent coun- tenances . Yet this would be done with a demure also do use . abashing of your eye sometimes , as the Jesuits Another is , that when you have ...
... give it in precept ; for there be many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent coun- tenances . Yet this would be done with a demure also do use . abashing of your eye sometimes , as the Jesuits Another is , that when you have ...
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... Give good hearing to those that give the first information in business ; and rather direct them * Believed to have been Sir Amyas Paulet , Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to the court of France . in the beginning , than interrupt them in ...
... Give good hearing to those that give the first information in business ; and rather direct them * Believed to have been Sir Amyas Paulet , Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to the court of France . in the beginning , than interrupt them in ...
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... give it a hard phrase , those that want friends to open themselves unto , are cannibals of their own hearts . But one thing is most admirable , wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship , which is , that this ...
... give it a hard phrase , those that want friends to open themselves unto , are cannibals of their own hearts . But one thing is most admirable , wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship , which is , that this ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...