Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory NoticesClarendon Press, 1869 - 400 pages |
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... observation of her own laws ; if those principal and mother elements of the world , whereof all things in this lower world are made , should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our ...
... observation of her own laws ; if those principal and mother elements of the world , whereof all things in this lower world are made , should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our ...
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... observation . Read not to contradict and con- fute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and ...
... observation . Read not to contradict and con- fute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider . Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed , and some few to be chewed and ...
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... observation and industry . And his times being rather prosperous , than calm , had raised his confidence by success , but almost marred his nature by troubles . His wisdom , by often evading from perils , was turned rather into a ...
... observation and industry . And his times being rather prosperous , than calm , had raised his confidence by success , but almost marred his nature by troubles . His wisdom , by often evading from perils , was turned rather into a ...
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... observation . His style is vigorous and terse , enlivened by flashes of grotesque humour . 1. The Origin of Law . WITHOUT law , every thing is in such sort every man's , as he may take , possess , and enjoy , without wrong to any man ...
... observation . His style is vigorous and terse , enlivened by flashes of grotesque humour . 1. The Origin of Law . WITHOUT law , every thing is in such sort every man's , as he may take , possess , and enjoy , without wrong to any man ...
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... observe it . 6. History of the House of Commons . B. WHEN began first the House of Commons to be part of the King's great council ? A. I do not doubt but that before the Conquest some discreet men , and known to be so by the King , were ...
... observe it . 6. History of the House of Commons . B. WHEN began first the House of Commons to be part of the King's great council ? A. I do not doubt but that before the Conquest some discreet men , and known to be so by the King , were ...
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Page 314 - IF a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 11 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 94 - God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 294 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 303 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
Page 295 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are strong as links of iron.
Page 1 - MY father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the nttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.
Page 302 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 240 - The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord...
Page 363 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; Neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.