My Novel, Or, Varieties in English Life, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1860 |
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Pagina 475 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Pagina 472 - ... to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Pagina 216 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Pagina 473 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and...
Pagina 262 - A breath — a puff," cried Dr. Riccabocca — •" a thing without matter — without length, breadth, or substance — a shadow — a goblin of our own creating. A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom 'opinion' than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cross the churchyard at dark.
Pagina 404 - ... indulged them. Thus, it was amidst the saddest corruption of court manners that it became the fashion in Paris to sit for one's picture, with a crook in one's hand, as Alexis or Daphne. Just as liberty was fast dying out of Greece, and the successors of Alexander were founding their monarchies, and Rome was growing up to crush in its iron grasp all states save its own, Plato withdraws his eyes from the world, to open them in his dreamy Atlantis. Just in the grimmest period of English history,...
Pagina 462 - Yes ; but your knowledge-mongers at present call upon us to discard military discipline, and the qualities that produce it, from the list of the useful arts. And in your own Essay, you insist upon knowledge as the great disbander of armies, and the foe of all military discipline ! PARSON. — Let the young man proceed. Nations, you say, may be beaten by other nations less learned and civilized ? LEONARD. — But knowledge elevates a class. I invite the members of my own humble order to knowledge,...
Pagina 211 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Pagina 469 - Wnit a moment — let me think. Ah — I see, sir !" said Leonard. PARSON. — " If the cause be holy, do not weigh it in the scales of the market ; if its objects be peaceful, do not seek to arm it with the weapons of strife; if it is to be the cement of society, do not vaunt it as the triumph of class against clnss." LEONARD, (ingenuously.) — " You correct me nobly, sir. Knowledge is power, but not in the sense in which I have interpreted the saying.
Pagina 219 - The things which are impossible with men are possible with God :' that is, man left to his own temptations would fail; but, strengthened by God, he shall be saved.