Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousD. Appleton, 1860 - 744 páginas |
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... hundred studied arithmetic ; six hundred received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the ...
... hundred studied arithmetic ; six hundred received a learned education . The progress of elegant literature and of the fine arts was proportioned to that of the public prosperity . Under the despotic successors of Augustus , all the ...
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... hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to ...
... hundred thousand people . But there can be no doubt that he was a much less depraved man than Wild . The deed for which Mrs. Brownrigg was hanged sinks into nothing , when compared with the conduct of the Roman who treated the public to ...
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... hundred years . Instead of illus- The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their imagination , but by their reason . They far excel their pre- decessors in the art of deducing general prin- ciples from ...
... hundred years . Instead of illus- The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their imagination , but by their reason . They far excel their pre- decessors in the art of deducing general prin- ciples from ...
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... hundred other subjects . Mr. Southey very hospitably takes an opportu nity to lionize the ghost round the lakes , and directs his attention to the most beautiful points of view . Why a spirit was to be evoked for the purpose of talking ...
... hundred other subjects . Mr. Southey very hospitably takes an opportu nity to lionize the ghost round the lakes , and directs his attention to the most beautiful points of view . Why a spirit was to be evoked for the purpose of talking ...
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... hundred pounds a year , and his ten nearest neighbours pay fifty pounds each to the tax - gatherer , for the purpose of discharging the interest of the national debt . If the debt were wiped out , ( a measure , be it understood , which ...
... hundred pounds a year , and his ten nearest neighbours pay fifty pounds each to the tax - gatherer , for the purpose of discharging the interest of the national debt . If the debt were wiped out , ( a measure , be it understood , which ...
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Página 249 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 133 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos,...
Página 285 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...
Página 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Página 16 - Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet.
Página 12 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrow-minded, and a few of...
Página 17 - They went through the world, like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities, insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain, not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier.
Página 16 - We regret that a body, to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations, had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I., or the easy good breeding for which the court of Charles II.
Página 276 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...
Página 275 - To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble; but the latter was attainable.