A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 pages |
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... feel that this hath some hand in the effect , yet as far as I can perceive , the knowledge of man's nothingness , and God's transcendant greatness , with whom it is that I have most to do , and the sense of the brevity of human things ...
... feel that this hath some hand in the effect , yet as far as I can perceive , the knowledge of man's nothingness , and God's transcendant greatness , with whom it is that I have most to do , and the sense of the brevity of human things ...
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... feel all things else , and feel ourselves ? Now , whatever fancies men may have about our notions and ideas , that they may come into our minds from without , and be formed by external impressions , yet no man will be so absurd as to ...
... feel all things else , and feel ourselves ? Now , whatever fancies men may have about our notions and ideas , that they may come into our minds from without , and be formed by external impressions , yet no man will be so absurd as to ...
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... feel the full weight of those acci- dental evils which may befal him . When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation , I cannot but look upon it as a constant habitual grati- tude to the Author of nature . An inward ...
... feel the full weight of those acci- dental evils which may befal him . When I consider this cheerful state of mind in its third relation , I cannot but look upon it as a constant habitual grati- tude to the Author of nature . An inward ...
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... feel in their lately dis- covered faculties . A bee amongst the flowers in spring is one of the most cheer- ful objects that can be looked upon . Its life appears to be all enjoyment ; so busy and so pleased : yet it is only a specimen ...
... feel in their lately dis- covered faculties . A bee amongst the flowers in spring is one of the most cheer- ful objects that can be looked upon . Its life appears to be all enjoyment ; so busy and so pleased : yet it is only a specimen ...
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... feel all the poig- who were unjustly detained in prison during the preceding reigns should be set - Essays . free . Among the number who came to thank their deliverer on this occasion there appeared a majestic old man , who , falling at ...
... feel all the poig- who were unjustly detained in prison during the preceding reigns should be set - Essays . free . Among the number who came to thank their deliverer on this occasion there appeared a majestic old man , who , falling at ...
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Page 94 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 400 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 400 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love, joy for his fortune, honour for his valour, and death for his ambition.
Page 445 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 416 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original...
Page 436 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the...
Page 4 - ... consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...
Page 399 - Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Page 399 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page 436 - Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could...