My Novel: Or Varieties in English Life. By Pisistratus Caxton, Volume 2J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1865 |
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... read French , Leonard ! " asked Riccabocca . " I have not found French difficult , sir . Once over the grammar , and the language is so clear ; it seems the very language for reasoning . " " True , Voltaire said justly , ' Whatever is ...
... read French , Leonard ! " asked Riccabocca . " I have not found French difficult , sir . Once over the grammar , and the language is so clear ; it seems the very language for reasoning . " " True , Voltaire said justly , ' Whatever is ...
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... reading and writing were scarcely known : to wit , — patience and fortitude under poverty and dis- tress ; humility and ... Leonard , you are not satisfied with our Parson's excellent definitions , you have only to read what Lord Bacon ...
... reading and writing were scarcely known : to wit , — patience and fortitude under poverty and dis- tress ; humility and ... Leonard , you are not satisfied with our Parson's excellent definitions , you have only to read what Lord Bacon ...
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... LEONARD . That is true : we so understood it . PARSON . — Thus , when this great Lord Bacon erred , you may say that he erred from want of knowledge - the knowledge which moralists and preachers would convey . But Lord Bacon had read ...
... LEONARD . That is true : we so understood it . PARSON . — Thus , when this great Lord Bacon erred , you may say that he erred from want of knowledge - the knowledge which moralists and preachers would convey . But Lord Bacon had read ...
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... Leonard received the intelligence with a serious meekness , and thoughts ... Leonard Fairfield ? " " My friend , " quoth the Parson , with a touch of human conceit , " I ... read White's Natural History of Sel- VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE . 35.
... Leonard received the intelligence with a serious meekness , and thoughts ... Leonard Fairfield ? " " My friend , " quoth the Parson , with a touch of human conceit , " I ... read White's Natural History of Sel- VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE . 35.
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... read White's Natural History of Sel- borne ? " " No. " " Do so , and you will find that you need not go far to learn ... Leonard and herself . And it would have been in vain to have put before the good woman the worldly advantages which ...
... read White's Natural History of Sel- borne ? " " No. " " Do so , and you will find that you need not go far to learn ... Leonard and herself . And it would have been in vain to have put before the good woman the worldly advantages which ...
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Page 100 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 30 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator,...
Page 30 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 154 - Delaval, an old baronet, with a pedigree as long as a Welshman's, who had been reluctantly decoyed to the feast by his three unmarried daughters — not one of whom, however, had hitherto condescended even to bow to the host — now rose. It was his right, — he was the first person there in rank and station. "Ladies and Gentlemen...
Page 30 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and...