Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 pagina's |
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Pagina 16
... better . He could call human beings into exist ence , and make them exhibit themselves . If we wish to find anything more vivid than Addi- son's best portraits , we must go either to Shak- speare or to Cervantes . But what shall we say ...
... better . He could call human beings into exist ence , and make them exhibit themselves . If we wish to find anything more vivid than Addi- son's best portraits , we must go either to Shak- speare or to Cervantes . But what shall we say ...
Pagina 35
... better said than by Bishop Warburton -as is reported - in the House of Lords , on the occasion of some angry dispute which had arisen between a peer of noble family and one of a new creation . He said that " high birth was a thing which ...
... better said than by Bishop Warburton -as is reported - in the House of Lords , on the occasion of some angry dispute which had arisen between a peer of noble family and one of a new creation . He said that " high birth was a thing which ...
Pagina 36
... better understood in the seventeenth century than in the sixteenth , and in the eigh- teenth century than in the seventeenth . But this constant improvement , this natural growth of knowledge , will not altogether account for the ...
... better understood in the seventeenth century than in the sixteenth , and in the eigh- teenth century than in the seventeenth . But this constant improvement , this natural growth of knowledge , will not altogether account for the ...
Pagina 57
... better than they had done . From the time of Pope to the present day the readers have been constantly becoming more and more numerous , and the writers , conse- quently , more and more independent . It is assuredly a great evil that men ...
... better than they had done . From the time of Pope to the present day the readers have been constantly becoming more and more numerous , and the writers , conse- quently , more and more independent . It is assuredly a great evil that men ...
Pagina 58
... better when he comes to the moderns . He gives us a catalogue of those whom he regards as the greatest writers of later times . It is sufficient to say that in his list of Italians he has omitted Dante , Petrarch , Ariosto , and Tasso ...
... better when he comes to the moderns . He gives us a catalogue of those whom he regards as the greatest writers of later times . It is sufficient to say that in his list of Italians he has omitted Dante , Petrarch , Ariosto , and Tasso ...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ... Samuel Austin Allibone Volledige weergave - 1880 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 110 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Pagina 83 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 399 - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
Pagina 32 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Pagina 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
Pagina 387 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Pagina 82 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Pagina 454 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Pagina 462 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...