The British Prose Writers, Volume 1J. Sharpe, 1821 - British prose literature |
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... or the powers of his mind ; at that penetration which no depth could elude ; that comprehension for which no object was too large ; that vigour which no labour could exhaust ; that memory which no pressure of acquisitions could.
... or the powers of his mind ; at that penetration which no depth could elude ; that comprehension for which no object was too large ; that vigour which no labour could exhaust ; that memory which no pressure of acquisitions could.
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... mind , did this mighty genius first break the shackles of that scholastic philosophy , which long had crushed the human intellect ; and diverting the attention from words to things , from theory to experiment , demonstrate the road to ...
... mind , did this mighty genius first break the shackles of that scholastic philosophy , which long had crushed the human intellect ; and diverting the attention from words to things , from theory to experiment , demonstrate the road to ...
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... mind may be regarded as principally indebted for its present cultivation and refinement . Thus strongly recommended by their intrinsic worth , these Essays possess also an additional and accidental value , from the circumstance of their ...
... mind may be regarded as principally indebted for its present cultivation and refinement . Thus strongly recommended by their intrinsic worth , these Essays possess also an additional and accidental value , from the circumstance of their ...
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... mind ; and I might be with excuse confined to these contemplations and studies , for which I am fittest : so commend I you to the preservation of the Divine Ma- jesty . Your entire loving brother , From my chamber at Gray's Inn , this ...
... mind ; and I might be with excuse confined to these contemplations and studies , for which I am fittest : so commend I you to the preservation of the Divine Ma- jesty . Your entire loving brother , From my chamber at Gray's Inn , this ...
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... minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valuations , imaginations as one would , and the like , but it would leave ... mind , but the lie , that sinketh in and settleth in it , that doth the hurt , such as we spake of before . But ...
... minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valuations , imaginations as one would , and the like , but it would leave ... mind , but the lie , that sinketh in and settleth in it , that doth the hurt , such as we spake of before . But ...
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Page 162 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 165 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 19 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 89 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 45 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 62 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Page 96 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.