Miscellaneous prose works, Volumen3 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 435 - Fourthly, your lordship should never be without some particulars afoot, which you should seem to pursue with earnestness and affection ; and then let them fall, upon taking knowledge of her majesty's opposition and dislike.
Página 200 - ... the morrow. We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful. We shall honour those who can teach us how to pluck the hour and the day virtuously and well, the delightful people who are capable of taking direct enjoyment in things, the lilies of the field who toil not, neither do they spin.
Página 387 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Página 379 - To be read by bare inscriptions like many in Gruter, to hope for eternity by enigmatical epithets or first letters of our names, to be studied by antiquaries, who we were, and have new names given us like many of the mummies, are cold consolations unto the students of perpetuity, even by everlasting languages.
Página 466 - He wore no girdle, cuffs, or band, so that his long hair and scanty short cassock made him look like the messenger of death. Each shoe might have served for an ordinary coffin. As for his chamber, there was not so much as a cobweb in it, the spiders being all starved to death. He put spells upon the mice, for fear they should gnaw some scraps of bread he treasured up. His bed was on the floor, and he always lay upon one side, from fear of wearing out the sheets ; in short, he was the superlative...
Página 211 - ... surrender; in either case he will not be a safe guide. A truly wise politician, espousing a cause with sincere devotion, will as sparingly as possible pledge himself against Circumstance and Time; for these are the great Powers of Mutability, which he must take into every prudent calculation if he. would do the best he can for his cause. The archer who would be sure of his mark must allow for the wind. Nevertheless, in every cause there are certain elementary principles not to be abandoned, and...
Página 92 - Christianity, genuine Christianity is contained in the gospels; it is the word of God; it requires, therefore, our veneration, and a strict conformity to it. Traditional Christianity, or that artificial theology which passes for genuine, and which we all profess, is derived from the writings of fathers and doctors of the church, and from the decrees of councils. It is therefore the word of men, and of men, for the...
Página 436 - I add one expedient more, stronger than all the rest; and, for mine own confident opinion, void of any prejudice or danger of diminution of your greatness ; and that is, the bringing in of some martial man to be of the Council ; dealing directly with her Majesty in it, as for her service and your better assistance ; choosing nevertheless some person that may be known not to come in against you by any former division. I judge the fittest to be my Lord Mouutjoy, or my Lord Willoughby.
Página 436 - ... and besides, well governed, is one of the best flowers of your greatness both present and to come ; it would be handled tenderly. The only way is to quench it verbis and not rebus. And therefore to take all occasions to the queen, to speak against popularity and popular courses vehemently ; and to tax it in all others : but, nevertheless, to go on in your honourable commonwealth courses as you do.
Página 495 - Pound's argument implicitly denies a traditional distinction between science and poetry. Customarily, the scientist speaks to a small community of fellow scientists, whereas the poet speaks to a more diverse audience. As Edward Bulwer-Lytton observes: "In science, address the few; in literature, the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgment on the...