The EnquirerJ. Anderson, 1823 - 411 ページ |
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... less importance , generally speaking , that a child should acquire this or that species of knowledge , than that , through the me- dium of instruction , he should acquire habits of intellectual activity . It is not so much for the di ...
... less importance , generally speaking , that a child should acquire this or that species of knowledge , than that , through the me- dium of instruction , he should acquire habits of intellectual activity . It is not so much for the di ...
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... less a brute . If it lie in my own choice , I shall undoubtedly say , Give me at least the chance of doing uncommon good , and enjoying pleasures uncommonly various and exquisite . The affairs of man in society are not of so sim- ple a ...
... less a brute . If it lie in my own choice , I shall undoubtedly say , Give me at least the chance of doing uncommon good , and enjoying pleasures uncommonly various and exquisite . The affairs of man in society are not of so sim- ple a ...
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... less can you point out original and immutable differences . The whole therefore seems to be a gratuitous assumption . Genius appears to signify little more , in the first instance , than a spirit of prying observation and incessant ...
... less can you point out original and immutable differences . The whole therefore seems to be a gratuitous assumption . Genius appears to signify little more , in the first instance , than a spirit of prying observation and incessant ...
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... less likely , than the event I have been accustomed to witness . This is well known to those who are acquainted with the latest speculations and discoveries of phi- losophers . ESSAY IV . ] OF THE SOURCES OF GENIUS . 17.
... less likely , than the event I have been accustomed to witness . This is well known to those who are acquainted with the latest speculations and discoveries of phi- losophers . ESSAY IV . ] OF THE SOURCES OF GENIUS . 17.
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... less than eternal . The principal cause of this auspicious event was the study of the classics . Suddenly men were seized with the de- sire of rescuing them from the oblivion into which they had fallen . It seemed as if this desire had ...
... less than eternal . The principal cause of this auspicious event was the study of the classics . Suddenly men were seized with the de- sire of rescuing them from the oblivion into which they had fallen . It seemed as if this desire had ...
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352 ページ - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
374 ページ - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
353 ページ - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
354 ページ - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
91 ページ - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
373 ページ - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
339 ページ - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
351 ページ - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose, a mortal thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit, to venture and divulge unusual things of myself, I shall petition to the gentler sort, it may not be envy to me.
339 ページ - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...
144 ページ - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.