The Bodleian Quarterly Record, Volume 4

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Bodleian Library, 1926

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Pagina 50 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
Pagina 279 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Pagina 248 - QM ' will be long and philosophical. I shall take that opportunity, which I judge to be a safe one, of propagating my principles, which I decline to do syllogistically in a poem. A poem very didactic is, I think, very stupid.
Pagina 219 - The volumes, whose title we have prefixed to these pages, have been prepared for the press by Lady Shelley, with the object of preserving from destruction the precious records in her possession. They comprise all the letters and other documents of a biographical character at present in the hands of Shelley's representatives.
Pagina 258 - In the first place, acquire early the Art of Detachment, by which I mean the faculty of isolating yourselves from the pursuits and pleasures incident to youth. By nature man is the incarnation of idleness, which quality alone, amid the ruined remnants of Edenic characters, remains in all its primitive intensity.
Pagina 246 - Biblical Extracts " in a day or two by the twopenny post. I confide them to the care of a person going to London. Would not Daniel I. Eaton publish them : Could the question be asked him in any manner ? I am also preparing a Volume of Minor Poems.
Pagina 247 - Spinosa you may or you may not be able to obtain. Kant is translated into Latin by some Englishman ; I would prefer that the Greek Classics should have Latin or English versions printed opposite.
Pagina 246 - Subjoined is a list of books which I wish you to send me very soon. I am determined to apply myself to a study that is hateful and disgusting to my very soul, but which is, above all studies, necessary for him who would be listened to as a mender of antiquated abuses. I mean that record of crimes and miseries, History.
Pagina 258 - The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty — these fifteen golden years of plenty, the anabolic or constructive period, in which there is always a balance in the mental bank and the credit is still good.
Pagina 258 - ... men above forty, and, while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are to-day. It is difficult to name a great and far-reaching conquest of the mind which has not been given to the world by a man on whose back the sun was still shining. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty...

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