The British Prose Writers, Volume 1J. Sharpe, 1821 - British prose literature |
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... example and patronage of a pedant king , then began to infect the purity of our composition , is in these days consulted only by the few . But these Essays , written at a period of better taste , and on subjects of immediate importance ...
... example and patronage of a pedant king , then began to infect the purity of our composition , is in these days consulted only by the few . But these Essays , written at a period of better taste , and on subjects of immediate importance ...
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... example ; and examine thyself strictly whether thou didst not best at first . Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place ; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory , but to direct ...
... example ; and examine thyself strictly whether thou didst not best at first . Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place ; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory , but to direct ...
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... example of God teacheth the lesson truly ; " He sendeth his rain , and maketh his sun to shine upon the just and the unjust ; " but he doth not rain wealth , nor shine honour and virtues upon men equally : com- mon benefits are to be ...
... example of God teacheth the lesson truly ; " He sendeth his rain , and maketh his sun to shine upon the just and the unjust ; " but he doth not rain wealth , nor shine honour and virtues upon men equally : com- mon benefits are to be ...
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... example of a dog , and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man , who to him is instead of a God , or " melior naturâ ; " which courage is manifestly such as that creature , without ...
... example of a dog , and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man , who to him is instead of a God , or " melior naturâ ; " which courage is manifestly such as that creature , without ...
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... examples of them . Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband ; Roxolana , Solyman's wife , was the de- struction of that renowned prince , Sultan Mustapha , and otherwise troubled his house and succession ; Edward the Second of ...
... examples of them . Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband ; Roxolana , Solyman's wife , was the de- struction of that renowned prince , Sultan Mustapha , and otherwise troubled his house and succession ; Edward the Second of ...
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Page 162 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Page 165 - 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. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 8 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 19 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 89 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 45 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 62 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 9 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below : so 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 20 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Page 96 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.