The Warner Library, Volume 2Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer Warner Library Company, 1917 - Literature |
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... reason , it has been thought better rather to glance briefly at the work of La- place than to repeat the eulogies of his admirers . JOHN ARBUTHNOT ( 1667-1735 ) RBUTHNOT'S place in literature depends as much on his asso- ciation with ...
... reason , it has been thought better rather to glance briefly at the work of La- place than to repeat the eulogies of his admirers . JOHN ARBUTHNOT ( 1667-1735 ) RBUTHNOT'S place in literature depends as much on his asso- ciation with ...
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... reason I have chosen you for this important trust ; speak the truth , and spare not . That I might fulfill those , his honor- able intentions , I obtained leave to repair to and attend him in his most secret retirements ; and I put the ...
... reason I have chosen you for this important trust ; speak the truth , and spare not . That I might fulfill those , his honor- able intentions , I obtained leave to repair to and attend him in his most secret retirements ; and I put the ...
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... reason , as should him undo ; And that he , whosoe'er the thing had planned , Had counterfeited passing well her hand . With such vain hope he sought himself to cheat , And manned some deal his spirits and awoke ; Then prest the ...
... reason , as should him undo ; And that he , whosoe'er the thing had planned , Had counterfeited passing well her hand . With such vain hope he sought himself to cheat , And manned some deal his spirits and awoke ; Then prest the ...
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... reason , and so baffle his creditors before a jury . The young man , after much demur and the ludicrous failure of his father , who at first matriculates in his stead , consents . listens to the pleas of the just and unjust argument in ...
... reason , and so baffle his creditors before a jury . The young man , after much demur and the ludicrous failure of his father , who at first matriculates in his stead , consents . listens to the pleas of the just and unjust argument in ...
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... Reason plead the causes of the old and new education in person . Cleon and Brasidas are the pestles with which War proposes to bray Greece in a mortar ; the triremes of Athens in council assembled declare that they will rot in the docks ...
... Reason plead the causes of the old and new education in person . Cleon and Brasidas are the pestles with which War proposes to bray Greece in a mortar ; the triremes of Athens in council assembled declare that they will rot in the docks ...
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Popular passages
Page 1165 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 877 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Page 1166 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Page 877 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 1173 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Page 1176 - ... in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words: finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation. It was well said by Themistocles to the King of Persia, 'That speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad; whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs.
Page 987 - Away with cant, and let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone.
Page 1174 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.
Page 1168 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 1171 - 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.