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 Seiten |
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... turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth , to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ...
... turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth , to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ...
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... turn thee behind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise , certain Lao- diceans , † and lukewarm persons , think they may accommodate points of religion by middle - ways , and taking part of both , and ...
... turn thee behind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise , certain Lao- diceans , † and lukewarm persons , think they may accommodate points of religion by middle - ways , and taking part of both , and ...
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... turn , and no more ado . Certainly to men of great judgment bold persons are a sport to behold ; nay , and to the vulgar also boldness hath somewhat of the ridicul- ous for if absurdity be the subject of laughter , doubt you not but ...
... turn , and no more ado . Certainly to men of great judgment bold persons are a sport to behold ; nay , and to the vulgar also boldness hath somewhat of the ridicul- ous for if absurdity be the subject of laughter , doubt you not but ...
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... turn them to fitter for practice than for counsel ; and they new men , and they have lost their aim : so as the old rule to know a fool from a wise man , " Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos , et vide- bis , " doth scarce hold for them . And ...
... turn them to fitter for practice than for counsel ; and they new men , and they have lost their aim : so as the old rule to know a fool from a wise man , " Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos , et vide- bis , " doth scarce hold for them . And ...
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... turns to speak . Nay , if there be any that would reign , and take up all the time , let him find means to take them ... turn : as it is betwixt the greyhound and the hare . To use too many circumstances ere one come to the matter , is ...
... turns to speak . Nay , if there be any that would reign , and take up all the time , let him find means to take them ... turn : as it is betwixt the greyhound and the hare . To use too many circumstances ere one come to the matter , is ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...