Nugæ Litterariae: Or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other ThemesRoberts brothers, 1896 - 344 páginas |
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... appears to have struck the Horeb - like rock of even his selfish soul , till the tender- ness gushed forth . Johnson , infirm and poor , had a com- panion still more infirm and poor , and blind withal , in old Mrs. Williams ; Northcote ...
... appears to have struck the Horeb - like rock of even his selfish soul , till the tender- ness gushed forth . Johnson , infirm and poor , had a com- panion still more infirm and poor , and blind withal , in old Mrs. Williams ; Northcote ...
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... appear to us singularly applicable to the recent anti - Italian outbreak of popular fury at New Orleans : " The Quakers will not see that there is a law of tempests in history as in Nature . . . . Civilization tends to corrupt men , as ...
... appear to us singularly applicable to the recent anti - Italian outbreak of popular fury at New Orleans : " The Quakers will not see that there is a law of tempests in history as in Nature . . . . Civilization tends to corrupt men , as ...
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... rest . deadness of perception thus induced promotes self - confidence and positiveness . Occasionally , at long intervals in the history of humanity , The very a person appears who wings his flight to the peaks 24 NUGE LITTERARIÆ .
... rest . deadness of perception thus induced promotes self - confidence and positiveness . Occasionally , at long intervals in the history of humanity , The very a person appears who wings his flight to the peaks 24 NUGE LITTERARIÆ .
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... appears who wings his flight to the peaks of greatness by an equal flapping of his wings ; but all the rest gain their motion like a mill - wheel , by a continued fall of water on one side . The want of balance , it has been truly said ...
... appears who wings his flight to the peaks of greatness by an equal flapping of his wings ; but all the rest gain their motion like a mill - wheel , by a continued fall of water on one side . The want of balance , it has been truly said ...
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... appears that the first casting into shape of Mr. King- lake's notes of Eastern travel was very far from that which was finally given to the world . It was kept in his desk almost as long as Wordsworth kept " The White Doe of Rylstone ...
... appears that the first casting into shape of Mr. King- lake's notes of Eastern travel was very far from that which was finally given to the world . It was kept in his desk almost as long as Wordsworth kept " The White Doe of Rylstone ...
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Página 42 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 212 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 223 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 318 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 138 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Página 148 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Página 233 - Yea, but he hath a great charge of children ; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not...
Página 49 - Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases ; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his own mind. Is it then saying too much if I say that man, by thinking only, becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains ?— festtdozzi.
Página 142 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 202 - If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where.