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... kind of influence . It would have been easy to select smarter essays ; but after a few years one looks back with little pleasure on ill - natured writing . Anything of that kind has been excluded from this volume . A. K. H. B. March 13 ...
... kind of influence . It would have been easy to select smarter essays ; but after a few years one looks back with little pleasure on ill - natured writing . Anything of that kind has been excluded from this volume . A. K. H. B. March 13 ...
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... kind of crudity and unsettledness in the minds of those young persons who turn out ultimately the most eminent .— ( p . 405. ) How admirably true ! We heartily wish that many injudicious parents would lay this to heart . Who is there ...
... kind of crudity and unsettledness in the minds of those young persons who turn out ultimately the most eminent .— ( p . 405. ) How admirably true ! We heartily wish that many injudicious parents would lay this to heart . Who is there ...
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... kind merely as a training for patience and fortitude — this is a kind of discipline which man should not presume to attempt . If such trials prove a discipline not so much of cheerful fortitude as of resentful aversion and suspicious ...
... kind merely as a training for patience and fortitude — this is a kind of discipline which man should not presume to attempt . If such trials prove a discipline not so much of cheerful fortitude as of resentful aversion and suspicious ...
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... kind , except to intimate friends , selected by himself for the purpose , when he saw fit . His refusal to answer , however , pointed him out -which , as it happened , he did not care for - as the author . But a case might occur , in ...
... kind , except to intimate friends , selected by himself for the purpose , when he saw fit . His refusal to answer , however , pointed him out -which , as it happened , he did not care for - as the author . But a case might occur , in ...
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... kind of trifling , absurdity , and falsehood . Except as a mental discipline , we cannot conceive any- thing more thoroughly unprofitable than the attempt to become acquainted with the systems which those men to whom the name of ...
... kind of trifling , absurdity , and falsehood . Except as a mental discipline , we cannot conceive any- thing more thoroughly unprofitable than the attempt to become acquainted with the systems which those men to whom the name of ...
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Page 175 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too /far.
Page 226 - Raven', as most generally known. It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition - that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.
Page 123 - ... her bliss : She knows not what his greatness is, For that, for all, she loves him more. For him she plays, to him she sings Of early faith and plighted vows; She knows but matters of the house, And he, he knows a thousand things. Her faith is fixt and cannot move, She darkly feels him great and wise, She dwells on him with faithful eyes, ' I cannot understand : I love.
Page 241 - Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat was not the only object in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels, and staves.
Page 47 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 239 - I perceived that what seamen term the chopping character of the ocean beneath us, was rapidly changing into a current which set to the eastward. Even while I gazed, this current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed - to its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea, as far as Vurrgh, was lashed into ungovernable fury; but it was between Moskoe and the coast that the main uproar held its sway.
Page 240 - ... swaying to and fro with the immense sweeps and swelters of the whirl. Scarcely had I secured myself in my new position when we gave a wild lurch to starboard, and rushed headlong into the abyss.
Page 269 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 342 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced choir below. In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 92 - He either fears his fate too much or his desert is small. who dares not put it to the touch and win or lose it all...