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... Benefits of Politeness ......... 295 § . 2. Reciprocal Claims of Politeness and Sincerity ......... 305 XI . Of Learning ....... 317 XII . Of English Style . Introduction 332 351 360 § . 1. Age of Queen Elizabeth ......... 335 § . 2 ...
... Benefits of Politeness ......... 295 § . 2. Reciprocal Claims of Politeness and Sincerity ......... 305 XI . Of Learning ....... 317 XII . Of English Style . Introduction 332 351 360 § . 1. Age of Queen Elizabeth ......... 335 § . 2 ...
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... benefit to their possessor . They are a sort of ignis fatuus leading us astray ; a fever of the mind incompatible with the sober dictates of prudence . They tempt a man to the perpetration of bold , bad deeds ; and qualify him rather to ...
... benefit to their possessor . They are a sort of ignis fatuus leading us astray ; a fever of the mind incompatible with the sober dictates of prudence . They tempt a man to the perpetration of bold , bad deeds ; and qualify him rather to ...
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... benefit me . He does not know what benefit is . He does not understand the nature of happiness or good . He cannot therefore be very zealous to promote it . He applies as much ardour to the thought of giving me a trinket , as to the ...
... benefit me . He does not know what benefit is . He does not understand the nature of happiness or good . He cannot therefore be very zealous to promote it . He applies as much ardour to the thought of giving me a trinket , as to the ...
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... of reasoning , any acquaintance with the secrets of nature , any refinement of lan- guage , any elegance of composition , any love of all that can adorn and benefit the human race , ESSAY VI . ] OF THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . 33.
... of reasoning , any acquaintance with the secrets of nature , any refinement of lan- guage , any elegance of composition , any love of all that can adorn and benefit the human race , ESSAY VI . ] OF THE STUDY OF THE CLASSICS . 33.
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William Godwin. all that can adorn and benefit the human race , this is the source from which they ultimately flowed * . From the Greek and Roman authors the moderns learned to think . While they investigated with unconquerable ...
William Godwin. all that can adorn and benefit the human race , this is the source from which they ultimately flowed * . From the Greek and Roman authors the moderns learned to think . While they investigated with unconquerable ...
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Page 352 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 374 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Page 353 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 354 - ... honesty of one who hath but a common repute in learning, and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner, lest he should drop a schism, or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.
Page 91 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 373 - What he attempted, he performed; he is never feeble and he did not wish to be energetic; he is never rapid and he never stagnates. His sentences have neither studied amplitude nor affected brevity; his periods, though not diligently rounded, are voluble and easy.
Page 339 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 351 - For although a poet, soaring in the high region of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him, might, without apology, speak more of himself than I mean to do ; yet for me sitting here below in the cool element of prose, a mortal thing among many readers of no empyreal conceit, to venture and divulge unusual things of myself, I shall petition to the gentler sort, it may not be envy to me.
Page 339 - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if...
Page 144 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest : but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.