Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 |
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... gives : He lives at ease that freely lives ! A noble heart may have none ease , Nor else nought that may him please , If freedom faileth : for free liking Is yearned over all other thing . Nor he , that aye has lived free , May not know ...
... gives : He lives at ease that freely lives ! A noble heart may have none ease , Nor else nought that may him please , If freedom faileth : for free liking Is yearned over all other thing . Nor he , that aye has lived free , May not know ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... give them occasion to please themselves in speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge ; but let his questions not be troublesome , for that is fit for a poser ; and let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak ...
... give them occasion to please themselves in speaking , and himself shall continually gather knowledge ; but let his questions not be troublesome , for that is fit for a poser ; and let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak ...
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... give , he looks about him , and says , Who sees me ? no alms nor prayers fall from him without a witness ; belike lest God should deny that he hath received them ; and when he hath done , lest the world should not know it , 24 JOSEPH HALL .
... give , he looks about him , and says , Who sees me ? no alms nor prayers fall from him without a witness ; belike lest God should deny that he hath received them ; and when he hath done , lest the world should not know it , 24 JOSEPH HALL .
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... give up their dead , and those which are alive in nature and dead in fear shall be forced from the rocks whither they went to hide them , and from caverns of the earth where they would fain have been concealed ; because their ...
... give up their dead , and those which are alive in nature and dead in fear shall be forced from the rocks whither they went to hide them , and from caverns of the earth where they would fain have been concealed ; because their ...
Términos y frases comunes
able affection appeared arts began better blessed body called character church common consider continued court death earth England English eyes face fall fear fire formed gave give greatest ground hand happy hath head heard heart heaven History hold honour hope human keep kind king knowledge labour land learning less liberty light live look Lord manner mind nature never night noble observed once opinion passed person play pleasure poor present reason received rest rich seemed shew side soon soul speak speech spirit stand success talk tell thankful things thou thought told took Trim true truth turned uncle whole wife writer wrote
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Página 33 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 35 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would...
Página 21 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 19 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Página 145 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Página 220 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Página 21 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 33 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 145 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Página 78 - Does life appear miserable, that gives thee opportunities of earning such a reward? Is death to be feared, that will convey thee to so happy an existence? Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.