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... live to about the same age . Lastly , there is often a striking similarity in their temper and disposition . It is easy to perceive how these observations will apply to the question of genius . If so many other things be heritable , why ...
... live to about the same age . Lastly , there is often a striking similarity in their temper and disposition . It is easy to perceive how these observations will apply to the question of genius . If so many other things be heritable , why ...
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... live upon a scanty provision , and was far removed from all the cus- tomary amusements of men of birth and fortune . If this train of circumstances had not taken place , would he ever have been the historian of the De- cline and Fall of ...
... live upon a scanty provision , and was far removed from all the cus- tomary amusements of men of birth and fortune . If this train of circumstances had not taken place , would he ever have been the historian of the De- cline and Fall of ...
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... live ; the mass of what went before , was too poor to be recollected with complacence . In reality each of these stages was an improvement upon that which went before ; and it is perhaps only at the last of them that he became , what ...
... live ; the mass of what went before , was too poor to be recollected with complacence . In reality each of these stages was an improvement upon that which went before ; and it is perhaps only at the last of them that he became , what ...
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... lives with the pe- rusal of the classics . Nothing is generally more easy than to discover by his style , whether a man has been deprived of the advantages of a literary education . A further argument in favour of the study of the Latin ...
... lives with the pe- rusal of the classics . Nothing is generally more easy than to discover by his style , whether a man has been deprived of the advantages of a literary education . A further argument in favour of the study of the Latin ...
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... live in a little world of my own of which he is no member ; and I scarcely think more of quarrelling with him , than a sailor does of bearing malice against a tempest . The consequences of these two modes of educa- tion are usually ...
... live in a little world of my own of which he is no member ; and I scarcely think more of quarrelling with him , than a sailor does of bearing malice against a tempest . The consequences of these two modes of educa- tion are usually ...
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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.