Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... Perhaps the inference you draw from this pre- amble may be , that I am as unreasonable in asking you for an English Theme , as I should be in re- questing you to make a shoe without tools , ma- terials , or instructions ; and , if it ...
... Perhaps the inference you draw from this pre- amble may be , that I am as unreasonable in asking you for an English Theme , as I should be in re- questing you to make a shoe without tools , ma- terials , or instructions ; and , if it ...
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... perhaps be easier ; but twenty ideas rush through the mind while we are writing one ; and , as we cannot express them all in the connected and rapid manner in which they present themselves , we are obliged to pause while we choose among ...
... perhaps be easier ; but twenty ideas rush through the mind while we are writing one ; and , as we cannot express them all in the connected and rapid manner in which they present themselves , we are obliged to pause while we choose among ...
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... perhaps read them with the less distaste on that account ; and , I believe , it will generally be admitted , that whatever tends to render the argument more impressive , and the composition more lively , provided it be closely ...
... perhaps read them with the less distaste on that account ; and , I believe , it will generally be admitted , that whatever tends to render the argument more impressive , and the composition more lively , provided it be closely ...
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... perhaps a salutary enthusiasm , to which such contemplations lead every susceptible heart . I would rather witness a total eclipse of the sun than the ceremony of a coronation ; and have gazed upon a comet with a degree of interest ...
... perhaps a salutary enthusiasm , to which such contemplations lead every susceptible heart . I would rather witness a total eclipse of the sun than the ceremony of a coronation ; and have gazed upon a comet with a degree of interest ...
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... of patriotism , to trusting the more dispassionate , and perhaps more lenient judgment of Collatinus ; who might , in this instance , have rendered himself as popular , by shewing mercy , as Brutus hoped 48 ESSAY III .
... of patriotism , to trusting the more dispassionate , and perhaps more lenient judgment of Collatinus ; who might , in this instance , have rendered himself as popular , by shewing mercy , as Brutus hoped 48 ESSAY III .
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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.