The Table Talk of John SeldenPress of C. Whittingham, 1818 - 180 pages |
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... give a bond as security for the loan of a manuscript . It was therefore left at the disposal of his executors , but he directed it not to be sold , they had intended bestowing it on the society of the Inner Temple , and it actually ...
... give a bond as security for the loan of a manuscript . It was therefore left at the disposal of his executors , but he directed it not to be sold , they had intended bestowing it on the society of the Inner Temple , and it actually ...
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... give light and authority in the decision of questions arising in a doubtful and hazardous state of the national affairs . ' ' After all , ' says one of his biographers , ' the most endearing part of Mr. Selden's character is elegantly ...
... give light and authority in the decision of questions arising in a doubtful and hazardous state of the national affairs . ' ' After all , ' says one of his biographers , ' the most endearing part of Mr. Selden's character is elegantly ...
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... give them the more life , and the smarter relish . It is possible the entertainment you find in them , may render you the more inclinable to pardon the presumption of Your most obliged , and Most humble Servant , RI . MILWARD . TABLE OF ...
... give them the more life , and the smarter relish . It is possible the entertainment you find in them , may render you the more inclinable to pardon the presumption of Your most obliged , and Most humble Servant , RI . MILWARD . TABLE OF ...
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... give them to whom he please . If a parliament make a law con- cerning leather , or any other commodity , you and I for example are parliament men , per- haps in respect to our own private interests , we are against it , yet the major ...
... give them to whom he please . If a parliament make a law con- cerning leather , or any other commodity , you and I for example are parliament men , per- haps in respect to our own private interests , we are against it , yet the major ...
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... give orders . Besides , suffragans were bishops , and they never claimed any juris- diction . 2. Anciently , the noblemen lay within the city for safety and security . The bishops houses were by the water - side , because they were held ...
... give orders . Besides , suffragans were bishops , and they never claimed any juris- diction . 2. Anciently , the noblemen lay within the city for safety and security . The bishops houses were by the water - side , because they were held ...
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Page 180 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 59 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Page 93 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Page 66 - I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss (') was an instance of early cultivation,...
Page 106 - talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh ! " — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, " Nay, you will always look like a gentleman ; but I am talking of being well or ill drest."
Page 26 - But is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. " So much so, sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it.
Page 22 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Page 146 - It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.
Page 150 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning ; must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Page 95 - I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. "Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.