A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Oxford University Press, 1913 - 573 pages |
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Page 15
... tell that still Dictator , his dream of his mother , signified his subjecting the world to himself . ' Tis now so out of use , that I think it not to be recovered . And were it not for the power of the Gospel , in crying down the vanity ...
... tell that still Dictator , his dream of his mother , signified his subjecting the world to himself . ' Tis now so out of use , that I think it not to be recovered . And were it not for the power of the Gospel , in crying down the vanity ...
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... tell us that ladders and scalary ascents signify preferment ; and while we consider the dream of Pharaoh , do teach us that rivers overflowing speak plenty , lean oxen , famine and scarcity ; and therefore it was but reasonable in ...
... tell us that ladders and scalary ascents signify preferment ; and while we consider the dream of Pharaoh , do teach us that rivers overflowing speak plenty , lean oxen , famine and scarcity ; and therefore it was but reasonable in ...
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... tell us ourselves . Luther was not like to fear a spirit in the night , when such an apparition would not terrify him in the day . Alexander would hardly have run away in the sharpest combats of sleep , nor Demosthenes have stood ...
... tell us ourselves . Luther was not like to fear a spirit in the night , when such an apparition would not terrify him in the day . Alexander would hardly have run away in the sharpest combats of sleep , nor Demosthenes have stood ...
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... tell us of mortal sins in dreams , arising from evil precogita- tions ; meanwhile human law regards not noctam- bulos ; and if a night - walker should break his neck , or kill a man , takes no notice of it . Dionysius was absurdly ...
... tell us of mortal sins in dreams , arising from evil precogita- tions ; meanwhile human law regards not noctam- bulos ; and if a night - walker should break his neck , or kill a man , takes no notice of it . Dionysius was absurdly ...
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... tell no tales . But the murder is not so soon drowned as the men . What is a brother by half - blood no kin ? A savage hath God to his father by creation , though not the church to his mother , and God will revenge his innocent blood ...
... tell no tales . But the murder is not so soon drowned as the men . What is a brother by half - blood no kin ? A savage hath God to his father by creation , though not the church to his mother , and God will revenge his innocent blood ...
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Page 68 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival...
Page 93 - ... sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrina sapientum templa serena...
Page 68 - I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, "Mirza," said he, "I have heard thee in thy soliloquies; follow me.
Page 3 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 155 - In barbers' shops and public-houses a fellow will get up, and spell out a paragraph, which he communicates as some discovery. Another follows with his selection. So the entire journal transpires at length by piece-meal. Seldom-readers are slow readers, and, without this expedient no one in the company would probably ever travel through the contents of a whole paper. Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. What an eternal time that gentleman...
Page 3 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore atheism did never perturb states; for it makes men wary of themselves, as looking no further: and we see the times inclined to atheism, as the time of Augustus Caesar, were civil times. But superstition hath been the confusion of many...
Page 149 - English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 153 - But where a book is at once both good and rare, where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine; such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess: no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.
Page 135 - O the cruelty of separating a poor lad from his early homestead ! The yearnings which I used to have towards it in those unfledged years ! How, in my dreams, would my native town (far in the west) come back, with its church, and trees, and faces ! How I would wake weeping, and in the anguish of my heart exclaim upon sweet Calne in Wiltshire ! To this late hour of my life, I trace impressions left by recollection of those friendless holidays.
Page 234 - And beyond is the land of Beulah, where the flowers, the grapes, and the songs of birds never cease, and where the sun shines night and day. Thence are plainly seen the golden pavements and streets of pearl, on the other side of that black and cold river over which there is no bridge.