The Old BachelorF. Lucas, jun., 1818 - 216 páginas |
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... thing beyond mediocrity , I took the science from its basis , the law of nature ; and raised upon it an unusual and most extensive superstructure of national and civil , as well as municipal law . But my success by no means correspon ...
... thing beyond mediocrity , I took the science from its basis , the law of nature ; and raised upon it an unusual and most extensive superstructure of national and civil , as well as municipal law . But my success by no means correspon ...
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... thing but the contemplation of that vast and awful subject . Enthusiasm is the prominent feature of my character ; and it is not a matter of wonder , that , so excited , my ge- nius took a new direction ; that my abortive efforts to ...
... thing but the contemplation of that vast and awful subject . Enthusiasm is the prominent feature of my character ; and it is not a matter of wonder , that , so excited , my ge- nius took a new direction ; that my abortive efforts to ...
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... thing more rational in their place . Hence I am not dis- tinguished by the disgusting and loathsome neglect of my person on the one hand ; nor by the elaborate tidiness , formality and precision of my dress and appearance on the other ...
... thing more rational in their place . Hence I am not dis- tinguished by the disgusting and loathsome neglect of my person on the one hand ; nor by the elaborate tidiness , formality and precision of my dress and appearance on the other ...
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... thing better than a horde of wandering and pre- datory Arabs ? And who would suppose that this writer , from the proud and lofty tone with which he treats us , in- habited , himself , a country less perfect in its virtues than that ...
... thing better than a horde of wandering and pre- datory Arabs ? And who would suppose that this writer , from the proud and lofty tone with which he treats us , in- habited , himself , a country less perfect in its virtues than that ...
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... thing to bring her intellectual efforts into any sort of com- parison with that ( meaning , I suppose those ) of Europe . " I fancy that Mr. Hammond , Mr. Erskine and Mr. Rose , must have shrunk and shaken their heads , in token of dis ...
... thing to bring her intellectual efforts into any sort of com- parison with that ( meaning , I suppose those ) of Europe . " I fancy that Mr. Hammond , Mr. Erskine and Mr. Rose , must have shrunk and shaken their heads , in token of dis ...
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Página 106 - There was no ambition of eloquence, no effort to shine, in anything which came from him. There was nothing which made any demand either upon your allegiance or your admiration. His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch ; and his plainness and simplicity put you, at once, at your ease, and gave you the full...
Página 145 - What an august ! what an amazing conception, if human imagination can conceive it, does this give of the works of the Creator ! Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other...
Página 89 - I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Página 119 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia.
Página 16 - If I attack the vicious, I shall only set upon them in a body ; and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive from others, to make an example of any particular criminal.
Página 206 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Página 180 - The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain for a long time the /sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter and protection, after they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world.
Página 205 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 107 - He had commenced life with an attention so vigilant, that nothing had escaped his observation, and a judgment so solid, that every incident was turned to advantage. His youth had not been wasted in idleness, nor overcast by intemperance. He had been all his life a close and deep reader, as well as thinker ; and, by the force of his own powers, had wrought up the raw materials, which he had gathered from books, with such exquisite skill and felicity, that he had added a hundred fold to their original...
Página 107 - It seemed to be as much the effect of a systematic and salutary exercise of the mind, as of its superior organization. His wit was of the first order.