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... thought , which is as well adapted to the profundities of literature , as to the task of tracing the motives and intricacies of the human mind . Incontrovertibly showing , that similar causes will conduce to similar effects , and that ...
... thought , which is as well adapted to the profundities of literature , as to the task of tracing the motives and intricacies of the human mind . Incontrovertibly showing , that similar causes will conduce to similar effects , and that ...
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... thought or expression . When Robert Hall was asked how the speaking of Fox affected him , he answered , as that of Demosthenes would ; his words were like darts of fire . Longinus requires for the rapid operation of eloquence upon the ...
... thought or expression . When Robert Hall was asked how the speaking of Fox affected him , he answered , as that of Demosthenes would ; his words were like darts of fire . Longinus requires for the rapid operation of eloquence upon the ...
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... thoughts of the heart he chiefly writes , so explaining Scripture as to make men in love with holiness and its Author , and willing followers of that which is good . " The style of this Father is exactly characteristic of his man- ner ...
... thoughts of the heart he chiefly writes , so explaining Scripture as to make men in love with holiness and its Author , and willing followers of that which is good . " The style of this Father is exactly characteristic of his man- ner ...
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suited to the majesty of his thoughts ; the sentences do not fatigue the ear by length , nor puzzle the mind by involution , and great vividness and interest are given to the subject in discus- sion by frequent and unexpected ...
suited to the majesty of his thoughts ; the sentences do not fatigue the ear by length , nor puzzle the mind by involution , and great vividness and interest are given to the subject in discus- sion by frequent and unexpected ...
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... thought of this sequesterment from the tumult , the pleasures , the honours of life , this journey into a far country , this transmigration , so to speak , into an earlier century , only to return into our own , to purify and adorn it ...
... thought of this sequesterment from the tumult , the pleasures , the honours of life , this journey into a far country , this transmigration , so to speak , into an earlier century , only to return into our own , to purify and adorn it ...
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Página 279 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Página 41 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 153 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness, that he who feels contempt For any living thing hath faculties Which he has never used, that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 268 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Página 270 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues, which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age, had opened to him in vision, that when, in the fourth generation, the third prince of the House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation, which (by the happy issue of moderate and healing councils) was to be made Great Britain, he should see his son...
Página 268 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc.
Página 358 - An Act to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better Provision for the Residence of the Clergy...
Página 175 - My days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old ; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Página 273 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the greatest masters of the renowned ages.
Página 163 - Meantime Luke began To slacken in his duty; and at length He in the dissolute city gave himself To evil courses : ignominy and shame Fell on him, so that he was driven at last To seek a hiding-place beyond the seas. There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break the heart.