Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks on English composition1830 |
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... thing like vigour and originality . It is my intention to shew you , in this letter , how a Theme may be mechanically constructed , I had almost said , manufactured ; and I have no doubt it will occur to you , that a discourse , so ...
... thing like vigour and originality . It is my intention to shew you , in this letter , how a Theme may be mechanically constructed , I had almost said , manufactured ; and I have no doubt it will occur to you , that a discourse , so ...
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... books , without adding any thing to the general stock of improvement + . " * See Letter on Logic at the end of this volume . " L'étude de la métaphysique est indispensable . Elle ap- When the subject on which you are to write is 6 LETTER I.
... books , without adding any thing to the general stock of improvement + . " * See Letter on Logic at the end of this volume . " L'étude de la métaphysique est indispensable . Elle ap- When the subject on which you are to write is 6 LETTER I.
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E. Johnson. tion ; and if you cannot at first say any thing that is new , you will at least recollect something that is true . Your Essay may consist of seven distinct parts . 1st . State the proposition , or subject proposed for your ...
E. Johnson. tion ; and if you cannot at first say any thing that is new , you will at least recollect something that is true . Your Essay may consist of seven distinct parts . 1st . State the proposition , or subject proposed for your ...
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... THINGS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD , OR ADDUCE PROOF OF THAT WHICH IS SELF - EVIDENT , OR VERY GENERALLY ADMITTED . And ... thing that you discover for yourself is far more valuable than it would have been if imparted to you by another : on ...
... THINGS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD , OR ADDUCE PROOF OF THAT WHICH IS SELF - EVIDENT , OR VERY GENERALLY ADMITTED . And ... thing that you discover for yourself is far more valuable than it would have been if imparted to you by another : on ...
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... ing away , the experienced go to the grave , the L'écrivain original n'est pas celui qui n'imite personne , mais celui que personne ne peut imiter . CHATEAUBRIAND . ignorant succeed in their room , and every thing is 28 LETTER III .
... ing away , the experienced go to the grave , the L'écrivain original n'est pas celui qui n'imite personne , mais celui que personne ne peut imiter . CHATEAUBRIAND . ignorant succeed in their room , and every thing is 28 LETTER 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.