Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...J.B. Lippincott, 1876 - 764 oldal |
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16. oldal
... least , is certain , that both Swift and Voltaire have been successfully mimicked , and that no man has yet been abie to mimic Addi- son . The letter of the Abbé Coyer to Pan- sophe is Voltaire all over , and imposed , during a long ...
... least , is certain , that both Swift and Voltaire have been successfully mimicked , and that no man has yet been abie to mimic Addi- son . The letter of the Abbé Coyer to Pan- sophe is Voltaire all over , and imposed , during a long ...
19. oldal
... least of all between equals , which was wont to be magnified . That that is , is between su- The truth of it is , a woman seldom asks ad - perior and inferior , whose fortunes may com- vice before she has bought her wedding clothes ...
... least of all between equals , which was wont to be magnified . That that is , is between su- The truth of it is , a woman seldom asks ad - perior and inferior , whose fortunes may com- vice before she has bought her wedding clothes ...
30. oldal
... least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him de- spair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his ...
... least actuated by it : whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him de- spair of coming at fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his ...
36. oldal
... least reason to believe England every fifty years since the time of Eliza- ions there is a metempsychosis . ANGLING . - ANTICIPATION . - ANTIQUITIES . [ An. It is an unaccountable vanity to spend all our time raking into the scraps and ...
... least reason to believe England every fifty years since the time of Eliza- ions there is a metempsychosis . ANGLING . - ANTICIPATION . - ANTIQUITIES . [ An. It is an unaccountable vanity to spend all our time raking into the scraps and ...
44. oldal
... least dangerous course left to a gov- ernment is to form that class into a standing army . It is scarcely possible that men can pass their lives in the service of one state , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its vic ...
... least dangerous course left to a gov- ernment is to form that class into a standing army . It is scarcely possible that men can pass their lives in the service of one state , without feeling some interest in its greatness . Its vic ...
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actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death delight desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers
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110. oldal - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
83. oldal - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
467. oldal - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
399. oldal - I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation.
32. oldal - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
343. oldal - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
387. oldal - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
82. oldal - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
454. oldal - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
462. oldal - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...