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... lived a hundred years later he would no more have committed this merely careless and inerudite fault than Gibbon would . Like all rules of general character , the balancing of the sen- tence has of course its difficulties and its ...
... lived a hundred years later he would no more have committed this merely careless and inerudite fault than Gibbon would . Like all rules of general character , the balancing of the sen- tence has of course its difficulties and its ...
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... lived , died , as fashions do . But beauty looks only a little less beautiful in the ugliest fashion , and so the genius and talent of the eighteenth century showed themselves only to a little less advantage because of their ...
... lived , died , as fashions do . But beauty looks only a little less beautiful in the ugliest fashion , and so the genius and talent of the eighteenth century showed themselves only to a little less advantage because of their ...
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... lived all his days at Oxford . That his melancholy or his conceit as an astrologer induced him to shorten his life is a mere legend TERRESTRIAL DEVILS . ERRESTRIAL devils are those Lares , Genii , Fauns , TER Satyrs , Wood nymphs ...
... lived all his days at Oxford . That his melancholy or his conceit as an astrologer induced him to shorten his life is a mere legend TERRESTRIAL DEVILS . ERRESTRIAL devils are those Lares , Genii , Fauns , TER Satyrs , Wood nymphs ...
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... lived here but in an hidden state of life , and , as it were , an abortion . Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial . CONSCIENCE . PAINT not the sepulchre of thyself , and strive not to beautify thy corruption . Be not an advocate for thy vices ...
... lived here but in an hidden state of life , and , as it were , an abortion . Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial . CONSCIENCE . PAINT not the sepulchre of thyself , and strive not to beautify thy corruption . Be not an advocate for thy vices ...
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... lived to see music come into request , since our nation came into right tune , and begin to flourish in our churches and elsewhere ; so that now no fear but we shall have a new generation skilful in that science , to succeed such whose ...
... lived to see music come into request , since our nation came into right tune , and begin to flourish in our churches and elsewhere ; so that now no fear but we shall have a new generation skilful in that science , to succeed such whose ...
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Page 192 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 59 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Page 173 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived...
Page 60 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 60 - To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forced and outward /\ union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 182 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 22 - THESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Page 212 - The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employment to which he is educated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades, success is almost certain ; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice to a shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes : but send him to study the law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such proficiency as will enable him to live by the...
Page 28 - So that the sum of all is : ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing. Yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it...
Page 327 - ... a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or a passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced these emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world...