A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 páginas |
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... follow . When I see kings lying by those who deposed them , when I con- sider rival wits placed side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the ...
... follow . When I see kings lying by those who deposed them , when I con- sider rival wits placed side by side , or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes , I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the ...
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... follows : - On the 5th day of the moon , which , according to the custom of my forefathers , I always keep holy , after having washed myself , and offered up my morning devo- tions , I ascended the high hills of Bagdat , in order to ...
... follows : - On the 5th day of the moon , which , according to the custom of my forefathers , I always keep holy , after having washed myself , and offered up my morning devo- tions , I ascended the high hills of Bagdat , in order to ...
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... follow me . " " He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock , and placing me on the top of it , " Cast thine eyes eastward , " said he , " and tell me what thou seest . " " " I see , ' said I , " a huge valley , and a prodigious ...
... follow me . " " He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock , and placing me on the top of it , " Cast thine eyes eastward , " said he , " and tell me what thou seest . " " " I see , ' said I , " a huge valley , and a prodigious ...
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... follow it with the last thing in the world of which you would be re- minded . It is this that perplexes civil persons . The reason that there is such a general outcry among us against flat- terers , is , that there are so very few good ...
... follow it with the last thing in the world of which you would be re- minded . It is this that perplexes civil persons . The reason that there is such a general outcry among us against flat- terers , is , that there are so very few good ...
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... follows ? Or can there be any other than this - If I seek an in- terest of my own , detached from that of others , I seek an interest which is chi- merical , and can never have existence . How then must I determine ? Have I no interest ...
... follows ? Or can there be any other than this - If I seek an in- terest of my own , detached from that of others , I seek an interest which is chi- merical , and can never have existence . How then must I determine ? Have I no interest ...
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Página 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 400 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 400 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honour for his valour, and death for his ambition.
Página 445 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 416 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Página 436 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Página 4 - ... consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...
Página 399 - Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 399 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Página 436 - Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could...