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... Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar : His style of speech was flowing and prince - like . For , if we note it 25 well , speech that is uttered with labor and difficulty , or speech that savoreth of the affectation of art and pre- cepts , or ...
... Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar : His style of speech was flowing and prince - like . For , if we note it 25 well , speech that is uttered with labor and difficulty , or speech that savoreth of the affectation of art and pre- cepts , or ...
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... Tacitus saith , They glared through their absences.1 - And for meanness of employment , that which is most traduced to contempt is that the government of youth 15 is commonly allotted to them ; which age , because it is the age of least ...
... Tacitus saith , They glared through their absences.1 - And for meanness of employment , that which is most traduced to contempt is that the government of youth 15 is commonly allotted to them ; which age , because it is the age of least ...
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... Tacitus wisely noteth when he saith , As fast as they be- 20 lieve one tale they make another ; so great an affinity hath fiction and belief . 2 This facility of credit , and accepting or admitting things weakly authorized or warranted ...
... Tacitus wisely noteth when he saith , As fast as they be- 20 lieve one tale they make another ; so great an affinity hath fiction and belief . 2 This facility of credit , and accepting or admitting things weakly authorized or warranted ...
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... Tacitus touched to the life : The godlike Nerva united and reconciled two things which used not to go together - government and 15 liberty . And in token of his learning , the last act of his short reign left to memory was a missive to ...
... Tacitus touched to the life : The godlike Nerva united and reconciled two things which used not to go together - government and 15 liberty . And in token of his learning , the last act of his short reign left to memory was a missive to ...
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... Tacitus . Used for ' would . ' Annals 13. 3 , slightly modified . 2 25. Speech that is uttered , etc. All prose style should be tried by this standard . 2 29. Holding of . Smacking of , pertaining to . The subject . As being unfree ...
... Tacitus . Used for ' would . ' Annals 13. 3 , slightly modified . 2 25. Speech that is uttered , etc. All prose style should be tried by this standard . 2 29. Holding of . Smacking of , pertaining to . The subject . As being unfree ...
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Page 125 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 42 - ... 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 and the relief of man's estate.
Page 41 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 141 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 85 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 42 - 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 31 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 139 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity : and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Page 72 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.
Page 29 - ... affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses...