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... young and heedless , vain and conceited , to lie open to conviction , and that I read and heard the arguments on both sides , rather to fill my head , than to rectify my heart , or fix my belief ; so that I must confess that I acted ...
... young and heedless , vain and conceited , to lie open to conviction , and that I read and heard the arguments on both sides , rather to fill my head , than to rectify my heart , or fix my belief ; so that I must confess that I acted ...
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... young growing corn , in shady lanes , by brooks and rivulets , in copses , meadows , and leafy woods . We would try and convince them of what they are so slow to learn , so unwilling to believe . Nay , more ; we are vain enough to ...
... young growing corn , in shady lanes , by brooks and rivulets , in copses , meadows , and leafy woods . We would try and convince them of what they are so slow to learn , so unwilling to believe . Nay , more ; we are vain enough to ...
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... young lady to the repeated requests of an empty fop . " I am rather inclined to believe , madam , " rejoined he , with a smirk , " that you are fishing for compliments . " " No , sir , " exclaimed the lady , " I never fish in so shallow ...
... young lady to the repeated requests of an empty fop . " I am rather inclined to believe , madam , " rejoined he , with a smirk , " that you are fishing for compliments . " " No , sir , " exclaimed the lady , " I never fish in so shallow ...
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... young and the very uneducated show themselves most keenly alive to the manifestation of the highest beauty , just as they keenly enjoy Shakspeare's plays . In both cases , the profound wisdom , and the profound skill , may be hidden ...
... young and the very uneducated show themselves most keenly alive to the manifestation of the highest beauty , just as they keenly enjoy Shakspeare's plays . In both cases , the profound wisdom , and the profound skill , may be hidden ...
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... young clergyman , modest almost to bashfulness , was once asked by a country apothecary , of a contrary character , in a public and crowded assembly , and in a tone of voice to catch the attention of the whole company , " how it ...
... young clergyman , modest almost to bashfulness , was once asked by a country apothecary , of a contrary character , in a public and crowded assembly , and in a tone of voice to catch the attention of the whole company , " how it ...
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Page 240 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 240 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Page 274 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 238 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 266 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Page 96 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 221 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Page 291 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Page 221 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Page 238 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.