The juvenile Plutarch, accounts of the lives of celebrated children and of the infancy of persons who have been illustrious for their virtues, Part 11820 |
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accordingly acquainted ADMIRABLE CRICHTON admiration afterwards amusements Angoumois ardour Arminian arms Artenay astonished astronomical Baratier became Beckner born celebrated charms Chevalier Bouflers child Cowley Crichton cultivated distin divine Duke Duval Edward English equally excellent father fell France FRANCIS BACON French French language Gassendi gave genius geometry glory greatest Greek Grotius guished happy heart high distinction Holborn Hill honourable Horrox illustrious ingenious Italian JEREMIAH HORROX king kingdom knowledge Lady Jane Grey languages Latin Latin language learning letter literary Little Beauchateau London William Darton Luneville manner Marquis Marquis de Montcalm master mathematician mathematics ment mind Montcalm never Paris Pascal persons pleasure PLUTARCH presented prince procured pupil queen rank received religion remarkable rendered replied scholar sent ship studies surprise talents thing thither tion took transit of Venus truth tutor uncommon verse virtue virtuous Volney young Candiac youth
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Page 105 - are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great painter, had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise
Page 174 - The soul of man was made to walk the skies; Delightful outlet of her prison here ! There, disencumber'd from her chains, the ties Of toys terrestrial, she can rove at large; There freely can respire, dilate, extend In full proportion, let loose all her powers.
Page 109 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise : He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream that stopp'd
Page 105 - very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such, says Dr. Johnson
Page 170 - exasperated, against the aggressor, who attacked him with repeated blows. What a heart-rending sight ! How worthy of admiration ! On one side the American, trembling for his little girl, who seemed devoted to destruction ; on the other a generous mariner exposing his life for a child not his own ; and here the whole crew
Page 171 - drawn up; already they were more than fifteen feet above the surface of the water; already cries of joy were heard : " Here they are ! here they are! —they are saved !" Alas! no—they were not saved ! At least one victim was to be sacrificed.
Page 168 - continues to conduct himself with so much valour and prudence, I have no doubt of his obtaining a place much above that which I occupy." Little Volney was very sensible to the praises that he had so well deserved.
Page 72 - His friends insisted that the clouds were still, and that it was the moon which moved. He maintained, on the contrary, that the moon had no sensible motion, and that it was the clouds which
Page 105 - had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's Treatise on Painting.
Page 82 - then generously divided the prize which he had won among the widows whose husbands had been killed. The Duke of Mantua