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... tracing the gradual development of our language . On the whole , the Editor hopes that the " Class - Book of English Prose " may tend to promote a relish for the beau- ties of our highest literary productions ; and he is.
... tracing the gradual development of our language . On the whole , the Editor hopes that the " Class - Book of English Prose " may tend to promote a relish for the beau- ties of our highest literary productions ; and he is.
Pagina 6
... - Justice under Henry VI . In the midst of this dearth of learning , an event hap- pened which was destined in a few years to change the whole face of 66 HISTORICAL SKETCH . 7 the literary world , and to 6 HISTORICAL SKETCH .
... - Justice under Henry VI . In the midst of this dearth of learning , an event hap- pened which was destined in a few years to change the whole face of 66 HISTORICAL SKETCH . 7 the literary world , and to 6 HISTORICAL SKETCH .
Pagina 18
... whole of all kind of sickness that he has ; and they that dwell there , and drink often of that well , never have sickness , but appear always young . I have drunk thereof three or four times , and methinks I still fare the better ...
... whole of all kind of sickness that he has ; and they that dwell there , and drink often of that well , never have sickness , but appear always young . I have drunk thereof three or four times , and methinks I still fare the better ...
Pagina 24
... whole account you will find that the number of those by whose labours mankind is supplied is much less than you perhaps imagine ; then consider how few of those that work are employed in labours that are of real service , for we , who ...
... whole account you will find that the number of those by whose labours mankind is supplied is much less than you perhaps imagine ; then consider how few of those that work are employed in labours that are of real service , for we , who ...
Pagina 33
... whole body of the common- wealth , as if a man should wear his hose on his head , or a woman go with a sword and a buckler , every man would take it as a great uncomeliness , although it be but a trifle in respect of the other . This ...
... whole body of the common- wealth , as if a man should wear his hose on his head , or a woman go with a sword and a buckler , every man would take it as a great uncomeliness , although it be but a trifle in respect of the other . This ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.