Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory NoticesClarendon Press, 1869 - 400 páginas |
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... knowledge of the subordinate and secondary causes of natural events ; they render none at all , but empty words . If you desire to know why some kind of bodies sink naturally downwards toward the earth , and others go naturally from it ...
... knowledge of the subordinate and secondary causes of natural events ; they render none at all , but empty words . If you desire to know why some kind of bodies sink naturally downwards toward the earth , and others go naturally from it ...
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... knowledge he had a most blessed and clear method of demonstrating what he knew , to the great ad- vantage of all his pupils ( which in time were many ) , but especially to his two first , his dear Edwin Sandys , and his as dear George ...
... knowledge he had a most blessed and clear method of demonstrating what he knew , to the great ad- vantage of all his pupils ( which in time were many ) , but especially to his two first , his dear Edwin Sandys , and his as dear George ...
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... learning , mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements , while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge ; till poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several ways , and hasten 92 JOHN MILTON .
... learning , mocked and deluded all this while with ragged notions and babblements , while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge ; till poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several ways , and hasten 92 JOHN MILTON .
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... we can pretend to modern knowledge by any we receive from the ancients ; nay it is possible , men may lose rather than gain by them ; may lessen the SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . 107 Giants in Wit and Genius exceptional productions Nature.
... we can pretend to modern knowledge by any we receive from the ancients ; nay it is possible , men may lose rather than gain by them ; may lessen the SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE . 107 Giants in Wit and Genius exceptional productions Nature.
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... knowledge of their own , for contenting themselves with that of those before them . So a man that only translates , shall never be a poet , nor a painter that only copies , nor a swimmer that swims always with bladders . So people that ...
... knowledge of their own , for contenting themselves with that of those before them . So a man that only translates , shall never be a poet , nor a painter that only copies , nor a swimmer that swims always with bladders . So people that ...
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Página 314 - IF a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Página 11 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Página 94 - God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 294 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Página 303 - 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. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Página 295 - 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 strong as links of iron.
Página 1 - MY father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Página 302 - 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. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Página 240 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Página 363 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.