Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Volumen3Bell and Bradfute, and Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh., 1811 - 838 páginas |
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... HENCE , in natural philosophy , astronomy , chemistry , and other sciences that depend on an extensive knowledge and observation of facts , modern philosophers have an unquestionable su- periority over the ancient . I am inclined also ...
... HENCE , in natural philosophy , astronomy , chemistry , and other sciences that depend on an extensive knowledge and observation of facts , modern philosophers have an unquestionable su- periority over the ancient . I am inclined also ...
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... Hence a mediocrity of genius is spread over all . But to rise beyond that , and to overtop the crowd , is given to few . The mul- titude of assistances which we have for all kinds of composition , in the opinion of Sir William Temple ...
... Hence a mediocrity of genius is spread over all . But to rise beyond that , and to overtop the crowd , is given to few . The mul- titude of assistances which we have for all kinds of composition , in the opinion of Sir William Temple ...
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... Hence he is a more pleasing writer , and gives a stronger impression of his subject ; though , in judgment and accuracy , much inferior to Thucydides . With digressions and episodes he abounds ; but when these have any connection with ...
... Hence he is a more pleasing writer , and gives a stronger impression of his subject ; though , in judgment and accuracy , much inferior to Thucydides . With digressions and episodes he abounds ; but when these have any connection with ...
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... Hence arise the primary qua- lities required in a good historian , impartiality , fidelity , gravity , and dignity . What I principally considered , was the unity which belongs to this sort of composition ; the nature of which I have ...
... Hence arise the primary qua- lities required in a good historian , impartiality , fidelity , gravity , and dignity . What I principally considered , was the unity which belongs to this sort of composition ; the nature of which I have ...
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... hence they are less attentive to convey all that knowledge with re- gard to domestic policy , which we , in distant times , would desire to have learned from them . Per- haps also , though in ancient ages men were abun- dantly animated ...
... hence they are less attentive to convey all that knowledge with re- gard to domestic policy , which we , in distant times , would desire to have learned from them . Per- haps also , though in ancient ages men were abun- dantly animated ...
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Página 167 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Página 178 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 169 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Página 179 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 152 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm...
Página 169 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Página 167 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 170 - ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And gross darkness the people: But the Lord shall arise upon thee, And his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Página 160 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done?
Página 264 - He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...