English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... perhaps in great measure to his consummate gifts as an academic teacher that his written work was enriched by a vein of ornament and eloquence . With something of the same training , and strongly affected by the same influence of ex ...
... perhaps in great measure to his consummate gifts as an academic teacher that his written work was enriched by a vein of ornament and eloquence . With something of the same training , and strongly affected by the same influence of ex ...
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... perhaps in the former than in the latter , where he is apt to follow the ancients in using English relatives as if they had the Latin distinctions of gender , number , and case to preserve their connection with the antecedent from ...
... perhaps in the former than in the latter , where he is apt to follow the ancients in using English relatives as if they had the Latin distinctions of gender , number , and case to preserve their connection with the antecedent from ...
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... perhaps the best summing up of his position in the history of English prose will be that he wrote with a remarkable combination of vigour and correctness , that he carried the unadorned style almost to its limit , and that while he ...
... perhaps the best summing up of his position in the history of English prose will be that he wrote with a remarkable combination of vigour and correctness , that he carried the unadorned style almost to its limit , and that while he ...
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... perhaps object that a man reduced by play may be put upon desperate courses , hurtful to the public . Suppose the worst , and that he turns highwayman ; such men have a short life and a merry . While he lives , he spends , and for one ...
... perhaps object that a man reduced by play may be put upon desperate courses , hurtful to the public . Suppose the worst , and that he turns highwayman ; such men have a short life and a merry . While he lives , he spends , and for one ...
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... perhaps may be apt to reply , he will still believe his senses , and never suffer any arguments , how plausible soever , to prevail over the certainty of them . Be it so , assert the evidence of sense as high as you please , we are ...
... perhaps may be apt to reply , he will still believe his senses , and never suffer any arguments , how plausible soever , to prevail over the certainty of them . Be it so , assert the evidence of sense as high as you please , we are ...
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Página 503 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 456 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Página 190 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 50 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Página 190 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Página 59 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Página 385 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
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Página 371 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Página 82 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.