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Pagina 349
... Novum Organum . The Life before us doubtless owes much of its value to the honest and generous enthusiasm of the writer . This feeling has stimulated his activity , has sustained his perseverance , has called forth all his ingenuity and ...
... Novum Organum . The Life before us doubtless owes much of its value to the honest and generous enthusiasm of the writer . This feeling has stimulated his activity , has sustained his perseverance , has called forth all his ingenuity and ...
Pagina 351
... Novum Organum . Nothing , we are sure , could have led Mr Montagu to depart so far from his master's precepts , except zeal for his master's honour . We shall follow a different course . We shall attempt , with the valuable assistance ...
... Novum Organum . Nothing , we are sure , could have led Mr Montagu to depart so far from his master's precepts , except zeal for his master's honour . We shall follow a different course . We shall attempt , with the valuable assistance ...
Pagina 371
... Novum Organum was slowly proceeding . Several distinguished men of learning had been permitted to see sketches or detached portions of that extraordinary book ; and , though they were not generally disposed to admit the soundness of the ...
... Novum Organum was slowly proceeding . Several distinguished men of learning had been permitted to see sketches or detached portions of that extraordinary book ; and , though they were not generally disposed to admit the soundness of the ...
Pagina 380
... Novum Organum ; and that extraordinary book had drawn forth the warmest expressions of admiration from the ablest men in Europe . He had obtained honours of a widely different kind , but perhaps not less valued by him . He had been ...
... Novum Organum ; and that extraordinary book had drawn forth the warmest expressions of admiration from the ablest men in Europe . He had obtained honours of a widely different kind , but perhaps not less valued by him . He had been ...
Pagina 392
... Novum Organum , Lib . 1. Aph . 81 . 66 Cogitata et visa . De Augmentis , Lib . 7. Cap . 1 . ** Novum Organum , Lib . 1. Aph . 81 . 11 Seneca , Epist . go . + De Augmentis , Lib . 1 . Advancement of Learning , Book 1 . Ib . , Lib . 2 ...
... Novum Organum , Lib . 1. Aph . 81 . 66 Cogitata et visa . De Augmentis , Lib . 7. Cap . 1 . ** Novum Organum , Lib . 1. Aph . 81 . 11 Seneca , Epist . go . + De Augmentis , Lib . 1 . Advancement of Learning , Book 1 . Ib . , Lib . 2 ...
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Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1919 |
Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1914 |
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Pagina 416 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Pagina 416 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Pagina 17 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrow-minded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them. A good father! A good husband! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution, tyranny, and falsehood!
Pagina 11 - God, the uncreated, the incomprehensible, the invisible, attracted few worshippers. A philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride...
Pagina 454 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Pagina 548 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Pagina 19 - But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinions subsides.
Pagina 359 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Pagina 23 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Pagina 192 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.