A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and intr. sketches by R. DemausRobert Demaus 1859 |
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... Cause of Religion Injured by the General Inferiority of Evangeli- cal Writers Labour 501 Liberty 503 458 Comparison of Countries in Ancient and Modern Times 460 Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , born 1805 503 Robert Southey , Uncle Jack . 504 ...
... Cause of Religion Injured by the General Inferiority of Evangeli- cal Writers Labour 501 Liberty 503 458 Comparison of Countries in Ancient and Modern Times 460 Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , born 1805 503 Robert Southey , Uncle Jack . 504 ...
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... cause , and from its being the earliest work of any size in English prose . Sir John Mandeville , too , the first of our travellers , has left us an exceedingly amusing account of his various journeys during upwards of thirty years ...
... cause , and from its being the earliest work of any size in English prose . Sir John Mandeville , too , the first of our travellers , has left us an exceedingly amusing account of his various journeys during upwards of thirty years ...
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... cause of the Reformers ; plain and practical , they were always level to the comprehension of his audience , and their genuine good sense , earnest piety , and impressive quaintness , could not but exert a deep influence on the ...
... cause of the Reformers ; plain and practical , they were always level to the comprehension of his audience , and their genuine good sense , earnest piety , and impressive quaintness , could not but exert a deep influence on the ...
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... cause , which he materially aided by his vigorous satire of the ecclesiastics . His chief works are " The Three Estates , " " The Complaint , " " The Dream , " and " Squire Meldrum , " all of them largely tinctured with grossness and ...
... cause , which he materially aided by his vigorous satire of the ecclesiastics . His chief works are " The Three Estates , " " The Complaint , " " The Dream , " and " Squire Meldrum , " all of them largely tinctured with grossness and ...
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... cause . The first is this : he that hath great ire and wrath in himself , he weeneth alway he may do thing that he may not do . And secondly , he that is irous and wroth , he may not well deem ; and he that may not well deem , may not ...
... cause . The first is this : he that hath great ire and wrath in himself , he weeneth alway he may do thing that he may not do . And secondly , he that is irous and wroth , he may not well deem ; and he that may not well deem , may not ...
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Page 195 - Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 80 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 177 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 79 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 126 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds : but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 324 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Page 240 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.
Page 110 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 71 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Page 463 - FOR there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works : in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.