English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various Writers, and General Introductions to Each Period, Volumen4Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1895 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... respect even from those to whom his writings seem most barren of human interest . To him literary style was , so far as conscious effort went , a meaningless phrase ; he is correct and lucid only from the clearness of his own views ...
... respect even from those to whom his writings seem most barren of human interest . To him literary style was , so far as conscious effort went , a meaningless phrase ; he is correct and lucid only from the clearness of his own views ...
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... respects so much in contrast as Johnson . In Horsley we may find an example of what religious writing became in the latter part of the century , earnest and conscientious , rich in scholarship and robust in thought , but moving rather ...
... respects so much in contrast as Johnson . In Horsley we may find an example of what religious writing became in the latter part of the century , earnest and conscientious , rich in scholarship and robust in thought , but moving rather ...
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... respect of not a few of its highest qualities , above all in respect of absolute lucidity , unfailing vigour , and saving common sense . Just in so far as Gibbon was not so great a man as Johnson , does his style fall below Johnson's ...
... respect of not a few of its highest qualities , above all in respect of absolute lucidity , unfailing vigour , and saving common sense . Just in so far as Gibbon was not so great a man as Johnson , does his style fall below Johnson's ...
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... respect for the century of which he was the characteristic product . Lastly , in Burke we have to recognise not the politician only , instinct with sincerity , unfettered by convention , illimitable in range , and giving shape and ...
... respect for the century of which he was the characteristic product . Lastly , in Burke we have to recognise not the politician only , instinct with sincerity , unfettered by convention , illimitable in range , and giving shape and ...
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... respects there is not much which could properly be dealt with here at any great length . Berkeley was an almost perfect model of a Christian gentleman , a pattern of that sort of character which , though it may at one time be held ...
... respects there is not much which could properly be dealt with here at any great length . Berkeley was an almost perfect model of a Christian gentleman , a pattern of that sort of character which , though it may at one time be held ...
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Página 400 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 491 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 446 - For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people. Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Página 53 - That Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil. (2) That as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. From the beginning to the end of Christ's atoning work, no other power is ascribed to it, nothing else is intended by it, as an appeaser of wrath, but the destroying of all that in man which comes from the devil ; no other merits, or value, or infinite worth, than that of its infinite ability...
Página 377 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the State may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms. But i confess, possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much...
Página 576 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Página 363 - 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.
Página 76 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.
Página 170 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet: he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Página 191 - Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours...