The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin; with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW. P. Nimmo & Company, 1881 - 536 páginas |
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... ground of truth , a hill not to be commanded , and where the air is always clear and serene and to see the errors , and wanderings , and mists , and tempests , in the vale below " so always , that this prospect before death is no such ...
... ground of truth , a hill not to be commanded , and where the air is always clear and serene and to see the errors , and wanderings , and mists , and tempests , in the vale below " so always , that this prospect before death is no such ...
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... ground , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or ...
... ground , than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye . Certainly virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are incensed or ...
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... ground , where it must first fill a pool . It is indifferent for judges and magis- trates for if they be facile and corrupt , you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife . For soldiers , I find the generals commonly , in their ...
... ground , where it must first fill a pool . It is indifferent for judges and magis- trates for if they be facile and corrupt , you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife . For soldiers , I find the generals commonly , in their ...
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... ground than upon a flat . And for the same reason , those * Tamerlane or Timour , Emperor of Samarcand , who died in the seventieth year of his age , A.D. 1405 , when preparing for the invasion of China . magnum alter alteri theatrum ...
... ground than upon a flat . And for the same reason , those * Tamerlane or Timour , Emperor of Samarcand , who died in the seventieth year of his age , A.D. 1405 , when preparing for the invasion of China . magnum alter alteri theatrum ...
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... ground too fast . There is nothing makes a man suspect much , more than to know little : and therefore men should remedy sus- picion , by procuring to know more , and not to keep their suspicions in smother . What would men have ? Do ...
... ground too fast . There is nothing makes a man suspect much , more than to know little : and therefore men should remedy sus- picion , by procuring to know more , and not to keep their suspicions in smother . What would men have ? Do ...
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Página 72 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 74 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter ? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
Página 122 - Think not man was made in vain, who has such an eternity reserved for him.' I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. ' At length,' said I, ' show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.' The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but...
Página 406 - Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air...
Página 23 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Página 9 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Página 311 - ... assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced. What could it proceed from ? — not from the burnt cottage — he had smelt that smell before — • indeed this was by no means the first accident of the kind which had occurred through the negligence of this unlucky young fire-brand. Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think.
Página 238 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 33 - ... judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Página 136 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes...