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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... Political Microcosm 12 Partridge on Valour Paternal Advice Mrs. Francis of Ryde · The Give - and - Take of Friendship The Qualifications of the Historian 12 12 12 · • 13 13 SAMUEL JOHNSON Critics . Good Humour . The Editor 13 14 14 ...
... Political Microcosm 12 Partridge on Valour Paternal Advice Mrs. Francis of Ryde · The Give - and - Take of Friendship The Qualifications of the Historian 12 12 12 · • 13 13 SAMUEL JOHNSON Critics . Good Humour . The Editor 13 14 14 ...
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... Political Conduct 379 385 Liberty 390 The Mistaken Methods , and the Resulting Crimes of the French Revolution 391 The Rights of Man • 398 The End of the Age of Chivalry 402 The Tendency of Democracy to excess in the Exercise , and in ...
... Political Conduct 379 385 Liberty 390 The Mistaken Methods , and the Resulting Crimes of the French Revolution 391 The Rights of Man • 398 The End of the Age of Chivalry 402 The Tendency of Democracy to excess in the Exercise , and in ...
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... Politics . 564 The Imagination in Science 566 WILLIAM BECKFORD W. J. Garnett · 571 A Dream in Kent 573 The Court of the Queen of Portugal 574 WILLIAM COBBETT J. Bonar . 577 Why leave England ? 580 The Crown Grub 581 PAGE The King's ...
... Politics . 564 The Imagination in Science 566 WILLIAM BECKFORD W. J. Garnett · 571 A Dream in Kent 573 The Court of the Queen of Portugal 574 WILLIAM COBBETT J. Bonar . 577 Why leave England ? 580 The Crown Grub 581 PAGE The King's ...
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... political strife . There remained the old force , remnants of the old collo- quial raciness , the fire and vigour of the old intensity . But single- ness of aim had gone ; each author became a rule to himself , aiming often at gaining ...
... political strife . There remained the old force , remnants of the old collo- quial raciness , the fire and vigour of the old intensity . But single- ness of aim had gone ; each author became a rule to himself , aiming often at gaining ...
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... political acts . He conquered the barbarous nations by his arms , and civilised them by his laws ; and having subdued the whole country as far as the ocean , and being saluted emperor by the soldiers , came away in all haste to Rome ...
... political acts . He conquered the barbarous nations by his arms , and civilised them by his laws ; and having subdued the whole country as far as the ocean , and being saluted emperor by the soldiers , came away in all haste to Rome ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith admiration ancient appear authority Battle of Hastings beauty Burke called character Church civil common constitution CONYERS MIDDLETON cried criticism David Hume dear death Dugald Stewart Duke of Bedford effect endeavour England English eyes father favour Frances Burney genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY give grace hand happiness heart honour Horace Walpole human humour ideas imagination imitation Johnson Jonathan Wild kind labour lady learning less letters liberty literary lived look Lord mankind manner means ment merit Michael Angelo mind moral nation nature never object observed opinion passions perhaps person philosophy poet poetry political principles prose reason religion rendered Scotland seemed sense sentiments society speak spirit style suppose taste temper things Thomas Warton thought Tibbs tion truth uncle Toby virtue Warren Hastings whole words write
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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.