A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A. C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 Seiten |
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... live me . " Now , if these princes had been as a Trajan , or a Marcus Aurelius , a man might have thought that this had proceeded of an abundant goodness of nature ; but being men so wise , of such strength and severity of mind , and so ...
... live me . " Now , if these princes had been as a Trajan , or a Marcus Aurelius , a man might have thought that this had proceeded of an abundant goodness of nature ; but being men so wise , of such strength and severity of mind , and so ...
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... that a man hath , as it were , two lives in his desires . A man hath a body , and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is , all offices of life are , as it were , granted to him and his deputy , for he may Bacon 19.
... that a man hath , as it were , two lives in his desires . A man hath a body , and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is , all offices of life are , as it were , granted to him and his deputy , for he may Bacon 19.
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... two virtues con- tained in them ; one is , that with good wearing , they will last you fresh and sound as long as you live : the other is , that they will grow in the same Swift 39 The Three Brothers and their Coats [Sect II] •
... two virtues con- tained in them ; one is , that with good wearing , they will last you fresh and sound as long as you live : the other is , that they will grow in the same Swift 39 The Three Brothers and their Coats [Sect II] •
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... live to- gether in one house like brethren and friends , for then you will be sure to thrive , and not otherwise . " Here the story says , this good father died , and the three sons went all together to seek their fortunes . I shall not ...
... live to- gether in one house like brethren and friends , for then you will be sure to thrive , and not otherwise . " Here the story says , this good father died , and the three sons went all together to seek their fortunes . I shall not ...
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... live , and move , and talk , and perform all other offices of human life ? Are not beauty , and wit , and mien , and breeding , their inseparable proprieties ? In 1 Alluding to the word microcosm , or a little world , as man has been ...
... live , and move , and talk , and perform all other offices of human life ? Are not beauty , and wit , and mien , and breeding , their inseparable proprieties ? In 1 Alluding to the word microcosm , or a little world , as man has been ...
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Seite 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Seite 246 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Seite 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 7 - 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 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Seite 8 - Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies; like as diseases of the body, may have appropriate exercises.
Seite 281 - Events which shortsighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished, and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Seite 13 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Seite 20 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Seite 90 - ... indefinable sweetness growing up to it —the tender blossoming of fat — fat cropped in the bud — taken in the shoot — in the first innocence — the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food — the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna — or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result or common substance. Behold him while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than...