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... passes for the oracle of an obscure club , would perhaps appear igno- rant , and confused , and vapid , and tedious , in a circle of men of genius . The only complete pro- tection against the appellation of fool , is to be the possessor ...
... passes for the oracle of an obscure club , would perhaps appear igno- rant , and confused , and vapid , and tedious , in a circle of men of genius . The only complete pro- tection against the appellation of fool , is to be the possessor ...
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... passes ; he admires the fashion of a buckle , and the metal of a tea - urn . If he experience any flights of fancy ... pass the rest of his life in a farm - yard . On the other hand the man of talent gives full scope to his imagination ...
... passes ; he admires the fashion of a buckle , and the metal of a tea - urn . If he experience any flights of fancy ... pass the rest of his life in a farm - yard . On the other hand the man of talent gives full scope to his imagination ...
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... pass over difficulties , and neglect essential preliminaries ; but then the nature of the thing would speedily recall them , and induce them to re- turn to examine the tracts which before had been overlooked . For this purpose it would ...
... pass over difficulties , and neglect essential preliminaries ; but then the nature of the thing would speedily recall them , and induce them to re- turn to examine the tracts which before had been overlooked . For this purpose it would ...
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... passes away life like a dream , has nothing to recollect , and leaves behind no traces that he was . His state is rather a state of vegetation , each day like the day before , than a state worthy of a rational being . All that is grand ...
... passes away life like a dream , has nothing to recollect , and leaves behind no traces that he was . His state is rather a state of vegetation , each day like the day before , than a state worthy of a rational being . All that is grand ...
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... passing there , of which I am ignorant ? The first point that a skilful artificer would study , is the power of his tools , and the nature of his materials . Without a considerable degree of knowledge in this respect , nothing will be ...
... passing there , of which I am ignorant ? The first point that a skilful artificer would study , is the power of his tools , and the nature of his materials . Without a considerable degree of knowledge in this respect , nothing will be ...
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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.