The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 15-16 |
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... means below the dignity of a rational soul , to observe the pretty creatures flying in pairs , to mark the different passions in their in- trigues , the curious contexture of their nests , and their care and tenderness of their little ...
... means below the dignity of a rational soul , to observe the pretty creatures flying in pairs , to mark the different passions in their in- trigues , the curious contexture of their nests , and their care and tenderness of their little ...
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... means it often happens that the choleric inflict disproportioned punishments upon slight and sometimes imaginary offences : but the temperately revengeful have leisure to weigh the merits of the cause , and thereby either to smother ...
... means it often happens that the choleric inflict disproportioned punishments upon slight and sometimes imaginary offences : but the temperately revengeful have leisure to weigh the merits of the cause , and thereby either to smother ...
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... mean the mistaken honour which hath too often a place in generous breasts . Men of good edu- cation , though naturally choleric , restrain their wrath so far as to seek convenient times for vengeance . The single combat seems so ...
... mean the mistaken honour which hath too often a place in generous breasts . Men of good edu- cation , though naturally choleric , restrain their wrath so far as to seek convenient times for vengeance . The single combat seems so ...
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... means to throw an odium on the clergy of the church of England , from their being called by a name which they enjoy in common with heathens and impostors . The other is , his raking together and exaggerating , with great spleen and ...
... means to throw an odium on the clergy of the church of England , from their being called by a name which they enjoy in common with heathens and impostors . The other is , his raking together and exaggerating , with great spleen and ...
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... means to consider what he is going to say . He delivers , therefore , every thought as it first in- trudes itself upon him , and then , with all the free- dom you could wish , will examine it , and rally the impertinence , or evince the ...
... means to consider what he is going to say . He delivers , therefore , every thought as it first in- trudes itself upon him , and then , with all the free- dom you could wish , will examine it , and rally the impertinence , or evince the ...
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Page 189 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Page 189 - Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 189 - Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Page 189 - Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ' ' The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Page 19 - A new commandment I give unto you : That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one for another.
Page xxiv - He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up. Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best: there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.
Page 77 - What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Page 12 - Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind: which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm. him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material...
Page 257 - To those who have skill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced to correctness. Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely been attainable; but happily there remains the original copy of the Iliad...
Page 277 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.