Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... PASS NOT BY IT , TURN FROM IT , AND PASS AWAY . " 1st RULE . The above passage , taken from the Proverbs of Solomon , contains a most forcible warning against going wilfully into the way of temptation . In the preceding verse , we are ...
... PASS NOT BY IT , TURN FROM IT , AND PASS AWAY . " 1st RULE . The above passage , taken from the Proverbs of Solomon , contains a most forcible warning against going wilfully into the way of temptation . In the preceding verse , we are ...
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... Passing that way on the following day , he felt inclined to repeat his visit : yet he paused on the threshold , and began to question his own firm- ness . " What ! " said he , " can I not depend upon myself ? Am I so weak as to fear ...
... Passing that way on the following day , he felt inclined to repeat his visit : yet he paused on the threshold , and began to question his own firm- ness . " What ! " said he , " can I not depend upon myself ? Am I so weak as to fear ...
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... PASS AWAY . " I will anticipate your first objection to these rules , namely , that the observance of them would swell your essay quite beyond the regular bounds of a school theme ; which is usually comprised in fifteen or twenty lines ...
... PASS AWAY . " I will anticipate your first objection to these rules , namely , that the observance of them would swell your essay quite beyond the regular bounds of a school theme ; which is usually comprised in fifteen or twenty lines ...
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... passes in his own mind : this is beyond the reach of rules . But there are some general maxims for avoiding gross errors , which may be attended to with great ad- vantage . The first object of writing , says Longinus , should be the ...
... passes in his own mind : this is beyond the reach of rules . But there are some general maxims for avoiding gross errors , which may be attended to with great ad- vantage . The first object of writing , says Longinus , should be the ...
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... passing hasty censure upon that which you read , until time and cultivation have improved your judg- ment . Remember , that " ten censure wrong , for one who writes amiss ; " bring your own composi- tion , as closely as you can , to the ...
... passing hasty censure upon that which you read , until time and cultivation have improved your judg- ment . Remember , that " ten censure wrong , for one who writes amiss ; " bring your own composi- tion , as closely as you can , to the ...
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Page 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Page 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Page 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.