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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... Principles in 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 Why leave England ? . The Crown Grub J. Bonar . 577 580 581 PAGE The ...
... Principles in 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 Why leave England ? . The Crown Grub J. Bonar . 577 580 581 PAGE The ...
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... principles of logical and lucid thought . It waged perpetual war against what was slipshod , inaccurate , and trivial . It sought out the treatment and the style best suited for each subject , and imposed models and 2 ENGLISH PROSE.
... principles of logical and lucid thought . It waged perpetual war against what was slipshod , inaccurate , and trivial . It sought out the treatment and the style best suited for each subject , and imposed models and 2 ENGLISH PROSE.
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... principles of reason and morality ; and to make it amiable , by making it plain , rational , intelligible to common understandings . As for those , who take the contrary way ; who either deny all natural law , or make it bend as they ...
... principles of reason and morality ; and to make it amiable , by making it plain , rational , intelligible to common understandings . As for those , who take the contrary way ; who either deny all natural law , or make it bend as they ...
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... Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710 , and the Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous in 1713. In the last named year he went to London , where Swift , who was then at the zenith of his influence , intro- duced him to the wits and the great ...
... Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710 , and the Dialogues of Hylas and Philonous in 1713. In the last named year he went to London , where Swift , who was then at the zenith of his influence , intro- duced him to the wits and the great ...
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... principles for the aptitude and contrivance , even of the most inconsiderable parts of the universe ? But laying aside matter and corporeal causes , and admitting only the efficiency of an all - perfect mind , are not all the effects of ...
... principles for the aptitude and contrivance , even of the most inconsiderable parts of the universe ? But laying aside matter and corporeal causes , and admitting only the efficiency of an all - perfect mind , are not all the effects of ...
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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.