New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 5C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... learning in the world . For I prefer the learning which is united with virtue to all the treasures of kings ; and if we separate from it propriety of conduct , what more doth the fame of letters bring us than a kind of infamy in ...
... learning in the world . For I prefer the learning which is united with virtue to all the treasures of kings ; and if we separate from it propriety of conduct , what more doth the fame of letters bring us than a kind of infamy in ...
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... learning confers upon man , I really deem none preferable to the instruction which letters afford us , that in the attainment of them we regard not the reputation they bring us , but their utility . Which precept , although some have ...
... learning confers upon man , I really deem none preferable to the instruction which letters afford us , that in the attainment of them we regard not the reputation they bring us , but their utility . Which precept , although some have ...
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... learning ; which , though they be not put forth by all the learned , yet , whoever studies with this view , I maintain may produce them in the highest perfection . 66 It matters not to the crop , whether man or woman sowed it ; and if ...
... learning ; which , though they be not put forth by all the learned , yet , whoever studies with this view , I maintain may produce them in the highest perfection . 66 It matters not to the crop , whether man or woman sowed it ; and if ...
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... learning ought to aim at ; and they will teach them to esteem the consent of God , and a good conscience , the best fruit of their labours . Thus placid and tranquil in themselves , they will neither be elated by the praise of the ...
... learning ought to aim at ; and they will teach them to esteem the consent of God , and a good conscience , the best fruit of their labours . Thus placid and tranquil in themselves , they will neither be elated by the praise of the ...
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... and virtue , shall become by their superior growth in learning and good manners , under your auspices , superlatively dear to me indeed . Farewell . At Court , Whitsun Eve . SIR THOMAS MORE TO HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET . You are LETTERS . 13.
... and virtue , shall become by their superior growth in learning and good manners , under your auspices , superlatively dear to me indeed . Farewell . At Court , Whitsun Eve . SIR THOMAS MORE TO HIS DAUGHTER MARGARET . You are LETTERS . 13.
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Page 200 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 202 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 17 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 247 - Man alone seems to be the only creature who has arrived to the natural size in this poor soil. Every part of the country presents the same dismal landscape. No grove nor brook lend their music to cheer the stranger, or make the inhabitants forget their poverty.
Page 134 - I have great love and regard towards you, and desire to win and gain your love and friendship by a kind, just, and peaceable life ; and the people I send are of the same mind, and shall, in all things, behave themselves accordingly...
Page 149 - I breed them all up to learning, beyond my fortune ; but they are too hopeful to be neglected, though I want. Be pleased to look on me with an eye of compassion : some small employment would render my condition easy.
Page 17 - I believe him to be a good man ; and that belief hath occasioned me to examine mine own conscience concerning his opinions.
Page 11 - Follow the steps of your master Christ, and take up your cross. Lay your sins on his back, and always embrace him. And as touching my death, rejoice as I do, good sister, that I shall be delivered of this corruption, and put on incorruption, for I am assured that I shall, for losing of a mortal life, win...
Page 11 - Lord: be penitent for your sins, and yet despair not: be strong in faith, yet presume not; and desire with St. Paul to be dissolved and to be with Christ, with whom, even in death there is life. Be like the good servant, and even at midnight be waking, lest when death cometh and stealeth upon you, like a thief in the night, you be with the...
Page 60 - I thank you for the last regalo you gave me at your musceum, and for the good company. I heard you censur'd lately at Court, that you have lighted too foul upon Sir Inigo, and that you write with a porcupine's quill dipt in too much gall. Excuse me that I am so free with you, it is because I am in no common way of friendship.