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Pagina 40
... believe the stories of the second sight . If he had exam- ined the claims of the Highland seers with half the severity with which he sifted the evidence for the genuineness of Fingal , he would , we suspect , have come away from ...
... believe the stories of the second sight . If he had exam- ined the claims of the Highland seers with half the severity with which he sifted the evidence for the genuineness of Fingal , he would , we suspect , have come away from ...
Pagina 43
... believe , that the paltry quirks which are faintly heard through a storm of coughing , and which can- not impose on the plainest country gentleman , can proceed from the same sharp and vigorous intellect which had ex- cited their ...
... believe , that the paltry quirks which are faintly heard through a storm of coughing , and which can- not impose on the plainest country gentleman , can proceed from the same sharp and vigorous intellect which had ex- cited their ...
Pagina 66
... believe , almost entirely neglected , was then an old English mansion , built in the days of the Plan- tagenets and the Tudors . It stood on the brow of a hill which overlooks a narrow valley . The extensive woods which surround it were ...
... believe , almost entirely neglected , was then an old English mansion , built in the days of the Plan- tagenets and the Tudors . It stood on the brow of a hill which overlooks a narrow valley . The extensive woods which surround it were ...
Pagina 80
... believe Charles to have been , beyond all comparison , a worse and more dangerous king than his son . The Dutch were strangers to us ; the Scots a kindred people , speaking the same language , subjects of the same crown , not aliens in ...
... believe Charles to have been , beyond all comparison , a worse and more dangerous king than his son . The Dutch were strangers to us ; the Scots a kindred people , speaking the same language , subjects of the same crown , not aliens in ...
Pagina 83
... believe that there was . We believe that the contest in which the Parlia- ment was engaged against the king , was a contest for the security of our property , for the liberty of our LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN . 83.
... believe that there was . We believe that the contest in which the Parlia- ment was engaged against the king , was a contest for the security of our property , for the liberty of our LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN . 83.
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Pagina 357 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Pagina 40 - Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years * ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.
Pagina 399 - 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 399 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 399 - 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 399 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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.
Pagina 212 - C'est pure medisance : il ne 1'a jamais e"te". Tout ce qu'il faisait, c'est qu'il etait fort obligeant, fort officieux ; et comme il se connaissait fort bien en etoffes, il en allait choisir de tous les cotes, les faisait apporter chez lui, et en donnait a ses amis pour de 1'argent.
Pagina 46 - Sir Adam introduced the ancient Greeks and Romans. JOHNSON, " Sir, the mass of both of them were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous where there is no printing, and consequently knowledge is not generally diffused. Knowledge is diffused among our people by the newspapers.
Pagina 344 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Pagina 376 - ... the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to provide man with what he requires while he continues to be man. The aim of the Platonic philosophy was to raise us far above vulgar wants. The aim of the Baconian philosophy was to supply our vulgar wants. The former aim was noble ; but the latter was attainable.