Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Volume 3Bell and Bradfute, and Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh., 1811 - 838 pages |
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... censure ; for to no human per- formance is it given , to be absolutely perfect . We may , we ought therefore to read them with a distinguishing eye , so as to propose for imitation their beauties only ; and it is perfectly consistent ...
... censure ; for to no human per- formance is it given , to be absolutely perfect . We may , we ought therefore to read them with a distinguishing eye , so as to propose for imitation their beauties only ; and it is perfectly consistent ...
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... ἄν τις ἐφίκοιλο καὶ δυνηθείη κατοπλευσας ἅμα καὶ το χρήσιμον και το τερπνόν , εκ της ιςορίας γαβείν . POLYB . Histor . Prim , otherwise be . For these reasons he is severely censured LECT . XXXV . 23 HISTORICAL WRITING .
... ἄν τις ἐφίκοιλο καὶ δυνηθείη κατοπλευσας ἅμα καὶ το χρήσιμον και το τερπνόν , εκ της ιςορίας γαβείν . POLYB . Histor . Prim , otherwise be . For these reasons he is severely censured LECT . XXXV . 23 HISTORICAL WRITING .
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Hugh Blair. otherwise be . For these reasons he is severely censured by one of the best critics of antiquity , Dionysius of Halicarnassus . Bellag * The censure which Dionysius passes upon Thucydides , is in several articles carried too ...
Hugh Blair. otherwise be . For these reasons he is severely censured by one of the best critics of antiquity , Dionysius of Halicarnassus . Bellag * The censure which Dionysius passes upon Thucydides , is in several articles carried too ...
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... gy and brevity ; but censures him on many occasions , not without reason , for harsh and obscure expression , deficient in smoothness and ease . of the whole is less violated by them , than LECT . XXXV . 25 HISTORICAL WRITING . '
... gy and brevity ; but censures him on many occasions , not without reason , for harsh and obscure expression , deficient in smoothness and ease . of the whole is less violated by them , than LECT . XXXV . 25 HISTORICAL WRITING . '
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... censure all the ancient historians as defective in political in- formation . No historians can be more instructive than Thucydides , Polybius , and Tacitus . Thucy- dides is grave , intelligent , and judicious ; always attentive to give ...
... censure all the ancient historians as defective in political in- formation . No historians can be more instructive than Thucydides , Polybius , and Tacitus . Thucy- dides is grave , intelligent , and judicious ; always attentive to give ...
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Page 167 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 178 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 169 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 179 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 152 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm...
Page 169 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 167 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 170 - ARISE, shine; for thy light is come, And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And gross darkness the people: But the Lord shall arise upon thee, And his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Page 160 - Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream-- Ay me! I fondly dream, Had ye been there; for what could that have done?
Page 264 - He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...