Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1852 - 744 pagina's |
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Pagina 10
... course of the present year . There literature ; and literature was even with them , is a certain class of men , who , while they as , in the long run , it always is with its ene- profess to hold in reverence the great names mics . The ...
... course of the present year . There literature ; and literature was even with them , is a certain class of men , who , while they as , in the long run , it always is with its ene- profess to hold in reverence the great names mics . The ...
Pagina 24
... course of nearly two centuries . Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A great victory is won . Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost ! A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ...
... course of nearly two centuries . Mighty armies fight from sunrise to sunset . A great victory is won . Thousands of prisoners are taken ; and hardly a life is lost ! A pitched battle seems to have been really less dangerous than an ...
Pagina 40
... course of many gene- rations arrived . They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention . The only Latin poets whose writings exhibit much In France , that licensed jester , whose jin- gling MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS ...
... course of many gene- rations arrived . They thus almost wholly missed the period of original invention . The only Latin poets whose writings exhibit much In France , that licensed jester , whose jin- gling MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS ...
Pagina 43
... course of things , have effected a similar reform in the sonnet and the ode . The rigour of the victorious sectaries had relaxed . A dominant religion is never ascetic . The government connived at theatrical representa- tions . The ...
... course of things , have effected a similar reform in the sonnet and the ode . The rigour of the victorious sectaries had relaxed . A dominant religion is never ascetic . The government connived at theatrical representa- tions . The ...
Pagina 67
... course , as it seems to us , has To make the past present , to bring the dis- all the disadvantages of a division of labour , tant near , to place us in the society of a great and none of its advantages . We understand man , or on the ...
... course , as it seems to us , has To make the past present , to bring the dis- all the disadvantages of a division of labour , tant near , to place us in the society of a great and none of its advantages . We understand man , or on the ...
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Pagina 286 - 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.
Pagina 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and Intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment ; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this, — the People will assuredly...
Pagina 13 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a selfevident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learnt to swim ! If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Pagina 287 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 38 - Partridge gave that credit to Mr Garrick, which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling, that his knees knocked against each other. Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior upon the stage ? ' O la ! sir,' said he, ' I perceive now it is what you told me.
Pagina 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Pagina 278 - It has lengthened life ; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth ; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of...
Pagina 401 - Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
Pagina 16 - by the right of an earlier creation and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a. mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Pagina 16 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.