English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... never forgets his books . The simplicity is the effect of the highest art ; his narrative impresses us because it is arranged with the skill of a trained thinker , who never allows his induction to be slovenly or inexact , who knows ...
... never forgets his books . The simplicity is the effect of the highest art ; his narrative impresses us because it is arranged with the skill of a trained thinker , who never allows his induction to be slovenly or inexact , who knows ...
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... never mine ; and I cannot be charged with deserting what I had never professed . Be so good , sir , as to favour me with some account of this matter . I have a right , I think , to require at least this satisfac- tion . You are the only ...
... never mine ; and I cannot be charged with deserting what I had never professed . Be so good , sir , as to favour me with some account of this matter . I have a right , I think , to require at least this satisfac- tion . You are the only ...
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... never long succeeded in keeping vogue for anything that was bad , have sometimes been fatally lacking to that which was good . And even this did not exhaust his good luck . He fell in , at the very flush of his talent and energy , with ...
... never long succeeded in keeping vogue for anything that was bad , have sometimes been fatally lacking to that which was good . And even this did not exhaust his good luck . He fell in , at the very flush of his talent and energy , with ...
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... never dull or dry ; a felicity of ornament and illustration which never condescends to the merely popular or trivial , and is never used to cloak controversial feebleness ; an incapacity of petulance , and an omnipresence of good ...
... never dull or dry ; a felicity of ornament and illustration which never condescends to the merely popular or trivial , and is never used to cloak controversial feebleness ; an incapacity of petulance , and an omnipresence of good ...
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... never had any existence , not even in the imagination . But say you , it sounds very harsh to say we eat and drink ideas , and are clothed with ideas . I acknowledge it does so , the word idea not being used in common discourse to ...
... never had any existence , not even in the imagination . But say you , it sounds very harsh to say we eat and drink ideas , and are clothed with ideas . I acknowledge it does so , the word idea not being used in common discourse to ...
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Page 503 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 456 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Page 190 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 50 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Page 190 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow...
Page 59 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Page 385 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Page 590 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Page 371 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Page 82 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.