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... less importance , generally speaking , that a child should acquire this or that species of knowledge , than that , through the me- dium of instruction , he should acquire habits of intellectual activity . It is not so much for the di ...
... less importance , generally speaking , that a child should acquire this or that species of knowledge , than that , through the me- dium of instruction , he should acquire habits of intellectual activity . It is not so much for the di ...
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... less a brute . If it lie in my own choice , I shall undoubtedly say , Give me at least the chance of doing uncommon good , and enjoying pleasures uncommonly various and exquisite . The affairs of man in society are not of so sim- ple a ...
... less a brute . If it lie in my own choice , I shall undoubtedly say , Give me at least the chance of doing uncommon good , and enjoying pleasures uncommonly various and exquisite . The affairs of man in society are not of so sim- ple a ...
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... less can you point out original and immutable differences . The whole therefore seems to be a gratuitous assumption . Genius appears to signify little more , in the first instance , than a spirit of prying observation and incessant ...
... less can you point out original and immutable differences . The whole therefore seems to be a gratuitous assumption . Genius appears to signify little more , in the first instance , than a spirit of prying observation and incessant ...
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... less likely , than the event I have been accustomed to witness . This is well known to those who are acquainted with the latest speculations and discoveries of phi- losophers . ESSAY IV . ] OF THE SOURCES OF GENIUS . 17.
... less likely , than the event I have been accustomed to witness . This is well known to those who are acquainted with the latest speculations and discoveries of phi- losophers . ESSAY IV . ] OF THE SOURCES OF GENIUS . 17.
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... less than eternal . The principal cause of this auspicious event was the study of the classics . Suddenly men were seized with the de- sire of rescuing them from the oblivion into which they had fallen . It seemed as if this desire had ...
... less than eternal . The principal cause of this auspicious event was the study of the classics . Suddenly men were seized with the de- sire of rescuing them from the oblivion into which they had fallen . It seemed as if this desire had ...
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Page 376 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 355 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 356 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Page 352 - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose...
Page 91 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 356 - If therefore ye be loath to dishearten utterly and discontent, not the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning, but the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre, or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
Page 31 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 394 - When Natural Religion has thus viewed both, ask her, which is the Prophet of God ? — But her answer we have already had, when she saw part of this scene, through the eyes of the centurion, who attended at the cross. By him she spoke, and said, 'Truly this man was the Son of God.
Page 355 - ... reading, steady observation, insight into all seemly and generous arts and affairs ; till which in some measure be compassed at mine own peril and cost, I refuse not to sustain this expectation from as many as are not loath to hazard so much credulity upon the best pledges that I can give them.
Page 367 - Now the best way in the world for a man to seem to be any thing is really to be what he would seem to be. Besides, that it is many times as troublesome to make good the pretence of a good quality, as to have it ; and if a man have it not, it is ten to one, but he is discovered to want it, and then all his pains and labour to seem to have it is lost.