A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and intr. sketches by R. DemausRobert Demaus 1859 |
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Strana iii
... present work into four periods , for reasons which will be found explained in the Introductory Note . In accord- ance with this division the extracts are arranged in periods , broadly distinguished by obvious diversities of style , and ...
... present work into four periods , for reasons which will be found explained in the Introductory Note . In accord- ance with this division the extracts are arranged in periods , broadly distinguished by obvious diversities of style , and ...
Strana v
... present work subservient to a higher use than that of a mere reading - book . For it is conceived that the careful examination of extracts which contain opinions that have been disputed , the attempt to estimate the validity of the ...
... present work subservient to a higher use than that of a mere reading - book . For it is conceived that the careful examination of extracts which contain opinions that have been disputed , the attempt to estimate the validity of the ...
Strana vi
... present , will be most likely to look with indulgence upon its deficiencies . ABERDEEN , September 29 , 1859 . The Publishers have to express their obligations to Arch- bishop Whately , Charles Dickens , Esq . , Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ...
... present , will be most likely to look with indulgence upon its deficiencies . ABERDEEN , September 29 , 1859 . The Publishers have to express their obligations to Arch- bishop Whately , Charles Dickens , Esq . , Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ...
Strana xi
... present day . The beginning of it was characterized by intense mental activity , and by the abundance and excellence of its poetical literature . HISTORICAL SKETCH 393 Archdeacon Paley , Robert Hall , born 1743 , died 1805 412 born 1764 ...
... present day . The beginning of it was characterized by intense mental activity , and by the abundance and excellence of its poetical literature . HISTORICAL SKETCH 393 Archdeacon Paley , Robert Hall , born 1743 , died 1805 412 born 1764 ...
Strana xii
... Present State of Things 488 Austin Layard , Traces of the Ocean 490 born 1817 545 Discovery of the Great Lions at Nim- Henry Hallam , roud 545 born 1778 , died 1859 491 Lowering and Removing of the Great General View of the Advantages ...
... Present State of Things 488 Austin Layard , Traces of the Ocean 490 born 1817 545 Discovery of the Great Lions at Nim- Henry Hallam , roud 545 born 1778 , died 1859 491 Lowering and Removing of the Great General View of the Advantages ...
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Strana 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Strana 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Strana 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Strana 79 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Strana 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Strana 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Strana 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Strana 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Strana 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Strana 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.