English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1896 - 257 strán (strany) |
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... honour will be lost ; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude . An elevated genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination : he remits his ...
... honour will be lost ; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude . An elevated genius employed in little things appears , to use the simile of Longinus , like the sun in his evening declination : he remits his ...
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... honour I would have , Not from great deeds , but good alone . The unknown are better than ill known . Rumour can ope the grave ; Acquaintance I would have , but when ' t depends Not on the number , but the choice of friends . X. Books ...
... honour I would have , Not from great deeds , but good alone . The unknown are better than ill known . Rumour can ope the grave ; Acquaintance I would have , but when ' t depends Not on the number , but the choice of friends . X. Books ...
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... honour , and some in honour's truckle bed ; some were bravely slain in battle on the field of honour , some in the storm of a counterscarp and died in the ditch of honour ; some here , some there ; -the bones of the bold and the brave ...
... honour , and some in honour's truckle bed ; some were bravely slain in battle on the field of honour , some in the storm of a counterscarp and died in the ditch of honour ; some here , some there ; -the bones of the bold and the brave ...
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... honour without merit ? And what can be called true merit but that which makes a person be a good man as well as a great man ? If we believe in a future state of life , a place for the rewards of good men and for the punishment of the ...
... honour without merit ? And what can be called true merit but that which makes a person be a good man as well as a great man ? If we believe in a future state of life , a place for the rewards of good men and for the punishment of the ...
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... honour . I was extolling his accom- plishments , when his mother told me that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he . " Betty " , said she , " deals chiefly in fairies and sprites , and ...
... honour . I was extolling his accom- plishments , when his mother told me that the little girl who led me in this morning was in her way a better scholar than he . " Betty " , said she , " deals chiefly in fairies and sprites , and ...
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Strana 3 - 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, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Strana 3 - Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Strana 3 - 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.
Strana 29 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Strana 41 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Strana 75 - I here fetched a deep sigh. Alas, said I, man was made in vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality ! tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius being moved with compassion towards me, bade me quit so uncomfortable a prospect. Look no more...
Strana 40 - ... a gentleman of Worcestershire, of ancient descent, a baronet, his name Sir Roger de Coverley. His great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance which is called after him. All who know that shire are very well acquainted with the parts and merits of Sir Roger. He is a gentleman that is very singular in his behaviour, but his singularities proceed from his good sense, and are contradictions to the manners of the world, only as he thinks the world is in the wrong.
Strana 234 - Then I told how for seven long years, in hope sometimes, sometimes in despair, yet persisting ever, I courted the fair Alice W n ; and, as much as children could understand, I explained to them what coyness, and difficulty, and denial meant in maidens — when suddenly, turning to Alice, the soul of the first Alice looked out at her eyes with such a reality of re-presentment, that I became in doubt which of them stood there before me, or whose that bright hair was...
Strana 74 - ... is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity. What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest...
Strana 211 - The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : The Devil grew well, the devil a monk was he...