English Prose: Selections, Volumen4Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1894 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... becomes a Duty incapable of Definition . 528 Government by Generalization 532 MADAME D'ARBLAY The Editor 537 Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars 541 Do. do . 543 Mr. Villars to Evelina . 547 Evelina to Miss Mirvan A Man of the Ton Pride and ...
... becomes a Duty incapable of Definition . 528 Government by Generalization 532 MADAME D'ARBLAY The Editor 537 Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars 541 Do. do . 543 Mr. Villars to Evelina . 547 Evelina to Miss Mirvan A Man of the Ton Pride and ...
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... becoming very weak he went to Oxford for change , and died in January 1753 , six months after his arrival there . His works were never completely published till twenty years ago , when they appeared at the Clarendon Press , under the ...
... becoming very weak he went to Oxford for change , and died in January 1753 , six months after his arrival there . His works were never completely published till twenty years ago , when they appeared at the Clarendon Press , under the ...
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... become hackneyed or exaggerated , and while it is still crisp and effective . He was born when Dryden and Tillotson and Halifax and Temple were still shaping the new English prose ; he reached the prime of early manhood when the great ...
... become hackneyed or exaggerated , and while it is still crisp and effective . He was born when Dryden and Tillotson and Halifax and Temple were still shaping the new English prose ; he reached the prime of early manhood when the great ...
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... become much more clear and easy ; the most shocking paradoxes and intricate speculations , in those sciences depending on the infinite divisibility of finite extension , which depends on that supposition . But what need is there to ...
... become much more clear and easy ; the most shocking paradoxes and intricate speculations , in those sciences depending on the infinite divisibility of finite extension , which depends on that supposition . But what need is there to ...
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... becomes the dupe of a man of mean birth and circumstance , who has more wit ; in this case what harm doth the public sustain ? Poverty is relieved , ingenuity is rewarded , the money stays at home , and has a lively circulation , the ...
... becomes the dupe of a man of mean birth and circumstance , who has more wit ; in this case what harm doth the public sustain ? Poverty is relieved , ingenuity is rewarded , the money stays at home , and has a lively circulation , the ...
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Adam Adam Smith admiration ancient appear authority beauty Belford called character Christ Church common considered conversation CONYERS MIDDLETON criticism David Hume death divine Duke of Bedford effect endeavour England eyes father favour genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give grace hand happiness hath heart heaven honour hope Horace Walpole human humour ideas imagination Johnson Jonathan Wild kind labour lady learning least less letters liberty literary lived look Lord mankind manner means ment merit metaphysical poets mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion passions perfect perhaps person philosophical poet poetry political Pompey principles reason religion SAMUEL RICHARDSON Scotland Scripture seemed sense sentiments society speak spirit style suppose taste temper things Thomas Warton thought tion Tom Jones truth uncle Toby vigour virtue whole William Law words writings
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Página 495 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 183 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 448 - 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 42 - Now, when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John, who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost (for as yet he was fallen upon none of them; only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Página 51 - 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 382 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them.
Página 580 - 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 74 - 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.