Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and American Authors, from Chaucer to the Present Day. The Whole Arranged in Chronological Order, with Biographical and Critical RemarksButler & Williams, 1845 - 372 páginas |
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... observation . The words , for the most part , are well chosen and pure , but the arrangement of them into sentences is intricate and harsh , and formed almost ex- clusively on the idiom and construction of the Latin . Much strength and ...
... observation . The words , for the most part , are well chosen and pure , but the arrangement of them into sentences is intricate and harsh , and formed almost ex- clusively on the idiom and construction of the Latin . Much strength and ...
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... observed for the Preservation of a Man's Estate . cers . AMONGST the other things of this world , take care of thy estate , which thou shalt ever preserve if thou ob- serve three things : first , that thou know what thou hast , what ...
... observed for the Preservation of a Man's Estate . cers . AMONGST the other things of this world , take care of thy estate , which thou shalt ever preserve if thou ob- serve three things : first , that thou know what thou hast , what ...
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... observed before , have any considerable share in the division . Now , let us but suppose that all our ancestors , who lived a hundred or two hundred years ago , were alive still , and pos- sessed their old estates and honours , what had ...
... observed before , have any considerable share in the division . Now , let us but suppose that all our ancestors , who lived a hundred or two hundred years ago , were alive still , and pos- sessed their old estates and honours , what had ...
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... observed to mean by the contrary character of good - nature , as it is generally bestowed . And first , when great ones vouchsafe this endearing eulogy to those below them , a good - natured man gene- rally denotes some slavish ...
... observed to mean by the contrary character of good - nature , as it is generally bestowed . And first , when great ones vouchsafe this endearing eulogy to those below them , a good - natured man gene- rally denotes some slavish ...
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... observation . Yet he that upon this pretence would confound the godly and the ungodly , may as well go about to lay heaven and hell together . Baxter's Judgment of his own Writings . Concerning almost all my writings , I must confess ...
... observation . Yet he that upon this pretence would confound the godly and the ungodly , may as well go about to lay heaven and hell together . Baxter's Judgment of his own Writings . Concerning almost all my writings , I must confess ...
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Página 238 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 39 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 69 - 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.
Página 30 - Which thing I also did in Jerusalem ; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme ; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Página 322 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti republican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 68 - But those frequent songs throughout the law and prophets beyond all these, not in their divine argument alone, but in the very critical art of composition, may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable.
Página 166 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these, O Mirza, habitations worth contending for?
Página 30 - Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision : 20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Página 72 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 38 - WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.