Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres, Volume 3Bell and Bradfute, and Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh., 1811 - 838 pages |
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... proper stock of materials , an inferior genius can make greater progress , than a much superior one , to whom these materials are wanting . HENCE , in natural philosophy , astronomy , chemistry , and other sciences that depend on an ...
... proper stock of materials , an inferior genius can make greater progress , than a much superior one , to whom these materials are wanting . HENCE , in natural philosophy , astronomy , chemistry , and other sciences that depend on an ...
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... proper to observe , that there were some circumstances in ancient times very favourable to those uncommon efforts of genius which were then exerted . Learning was a much more rare and singular attainment in the earlier ages , than it is ...
... proper to observe , that there were some circumstances in ancient times very favourable to those uncommon efforts of genius which were then exerted . Learning was a much more rare and singular attainment in the earlier ages , than it is ...
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... proper object and end of history , from which may be deduced many of the laws relating to it ; and if this object were always kept in view , it would prevent many of the errors into which persons are apt to fall , concerning this ...
... proper object and end of history , from which may be deduced many of the laws relating to it ; and if this object were always kept in view , it would prevent many of the errors into which persons are apt to fall , concerning this ...
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... proper train . He will soon tire the reader , if he goes on record- > ing , in strict chronological order , a multitude of separate transactions , connected by nothing else , but their happening at the same time . THOUGH the history of ...
... proper train . He will soon tire the reader , if he goes on record- > ing , in strict chronological order , a multitude of separate transactions , connected by nothing else , but their happening at the same time . THOUGH the history of ...
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... proper materials for judgment , he should not be too prodigal of his own opinions and reasonings ... When an historian is much given to dissertation , and is ready to phi- losophise and speculate on all that he records , a suspicion ...
... proper materials for judgment , he should not be too prodigal of his own opinions and reasonings ... When an historian is much given to dissertation , and is ready to phi- losophise and speculate on all that he records , a suspicion ...
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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...