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... Speech is the great instrument by which man becomes beneficial to man ; and it is to the intercourse and transmission of thought , by means of speech , that we are chiefly indebted for the improvement of thought itself . Small are the ...
... Speech is the great instrument by which man becomes beneficial to man ; and it is to the intercourse and transmission of thought , by means of speech , that we are chiefly indebted for the improvement of thought itself . Small are the ...
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... speech or writing , to address the public ; for , without being master of these attainments , no man can do justice to his own conceptions . And so far are they from being of that kind , for which we are indebted to nature alone , that ...
... speech or writing , to address the public ; for , without being master of these attainments , no man can do justice to his own conceptions . And so far are they from being of that kind , for which we are indebted to nature alone , that ...
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... speech and reason . But although none be wholly devoid of this faculty , yet the degrees in which it is possessed , are widely different . In some men , only the feeble glimmerings of taste appear ; the beauties which they relish are of ...
... speech and reason . But although none be wholly devoid of this faculty , yet the degrees in which it is possessed , are widely different . In some men , only the feeble glimmerings of taste appear ; the beauties which they relish are of ...
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... speech , previous to the formation of society . For by what bond could any multitude of men be kept together , or be made to join in the prosecution of any common interest , until , by the assistance of speech , they could communicate ...
... speech , previous to the formation of society . For by what bond could any multitude of men be kept together , or be made to join in the prosecution of any common interest , until , by the assistance of speech , they could communicate ...
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... speech must have been poor and narrow ; and we are at full liberty to inquire in what manner , and by what steps , language advanced to the state in which we now find it . If we should suppose a period before any words were invented or ...
... speech must have been poor and narrow ; and we are at full liberty to inquire in what manner , and by what steps , language advanced to the state in which we now find it . If we should suppose a period before any words were invented or ...
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Page 302 - I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach Light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm...
Page 305 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 305 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Page 32 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 103 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 301 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Page 170 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Page 308 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 125 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 101 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.