A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and intr. sketches by R. DemausRobert Demaus 1859 |
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... mind to action , and the Reformation , which owed its origin to the revival of letters , contributed in its turn to disseminate still more widely that enlightenment and spirit of free inquiry which were essential to its own existence ...
... mind to action , and the Reformation , which owed its origin to the revival of letters , contributed in its turn to disseminate still more widely that enlightenment and spirit of free inquiry which were essential to its own existence ...
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... mind . In the ability to delineate character in all its shades , to pourtray man under the influence of all the passions , gentle and stormy , to which our nature is subject , Shakspere is admitted to be without a rival . His fame ...
... mind . In the ability to delineate character in all its shades , to pourtray man under the influence of all the passions , gentle and stormy , to which our nature is subject , Shakspere is admitted to be without a rival . His fame ...
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... mind , continue to be favourites with a large circle of readers . Jeremy Taylor , the most eloquent of British divines , lived during the stormy period of the civil wars and the Commonwealth . His works , characterized throughout by ...
... mind , continue to be favourites with a large circle of readers . Jeremy Taylor , the most eloquent of British divines , lived during the stormy period of the civil wars and the Commonwealth . His works , characterized throughout by ...
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... which have been highly lauded by Evelyn - no mean judge- give abundant evidence of a highly - cultivated mind , well acquainted with all the literature of the day . SELECTIONS . I. RICHARD HOOKER . RICHARD HOOKER was born.
... which have been highly lauded by Evelyn - no mean judge- give abundant evidence of a highly - cultivated mind , well acquainted with all the literature of the day . SELECTIONS . I. RICHARD HOOKER . RICHARD HOOKER was born.
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... mind he hath purchased by these words only , " " Behold , I will lay my hand on my mouth ; I have spoken once , yet will I not therefore maintain argument ; yet twice , howbeit for that cause further I will not pro- ceed . " Far more ...
... mind he hath purchased by these words only , " " Behold , I will lay my hand on my mouth ; I have spoken once , yet will I not therefore maintain argument ; yet twice , howbeit for that cause further I will not pro- ceed . " Far more ...
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Página 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Página 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Página 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Página 79 - 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. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Página 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Página 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Página 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Página 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.