Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Volumen3Bell and Bradfute, and Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh., 1811 - 838 páginas |
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... relating to them . This part of the work might easily be drawn out to a great length ; but I am sensible , that critical discussions , when they are pursued too far , become both trifling and tedious . I shall study , therefore , to ...
... relating to them . This part of the work might easily be drawn out to a great length ; but I am sensible , that critical discussions , when they are pursued too far , become both trifling and tedious . I shall study , therefore , to ...
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... relate to taste and fine writing , which is our object , the progress of society must , in equity , be admitted to have given us some advantages . For instance , in his- LECT . XXXV . THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS . 9.
... relate to taste and fine writing , which is our object , the progress of society must , in equity , be admitted to have given us some advantages . For instance , in his- LECT . XXXV . THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS . 9.
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... relating to it ; and if this object were always kept in view , it would prevent many of the errors into which persons are apt to fall , concerning this species of composition . As the primary end of history is to record truth , impar ...
... relating to it ; and if this object were always kept in view , it would prevent many of the errors into which persons are apt to fall , concerning this species of composition . As the primary end of history is to record truth , impar ...
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... relate , in a very distinct and beautiful manner , yet sometimes they do not give us a elear view of all the political causes , which affected the situation of affairs of which they treat . From the Greek historians , we are able to ...
... relate , in a very distinct and beautiful manner , yet sometimes they do not give us a elear view of all the political causes , which affected the situation of affairs of which they treat . From the Greek historians , we are able to ...
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... relates ; and to shew the advantages or disadvantages of every plan that was proposed and every measure that was pursued . Polybius excels in comprehensive political views , in penetration into great systems , and in his pro- found and ...
... relates ; and to shew the advantages or disadvantages of every plan that was proposed and every measure that was pursued . Polybius excels in comprehensive political views , in penetration into great systems , and in his pro- found and ...
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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...