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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... 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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... thought is often imperfectly concealed behind the scaffolding of formality and conventional dignity of style . In Bentham we reach , perhaps , the ideal — not certainly a very inviting one - of prosaic , and even acrid logic . Narrow in ...
... thought is often imperfectly concealed behind the scaffolding of formality and conventional dignity of style . In Bentham we reach , perhaps , the ideal — not certainly a very inviting one - of prosaic , and even acrid logic . Narrow in ...
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... thought of his own age ; and in the richness of his imagination , in the perfection of his philosophic style , he attains to that uniqueness which is the chief attribute of genius . There is something of the same mental quality in the ...
... thought of his own age ; and in the richness of his imagination , in the perfection of his philosophic style , he attains to that uniqueness which is the chief attribute of genius . There is something of the same mental quality in the ...
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... thought , but moving rather with judicial formality and dignified reverence than by any instinct of enthusiastic piety . There are others again whom it is hard to classify , who are yet no less typical of the age . They form a long list ...
... thought , but moving rather with judicial formality and dignified reverence than by any instinct of enthusiastic piety . There are others again whom it is hard to classify , who are yet no less typical of the age . They form a long list ...
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... thought and of his vigorous grasp upon our literature , and traced the lines upon which its history must be written . Within the compass of an introduction such as this , it is not possible , nor even desirable , to pass in review all ...
... thought and of his vigorous grasp upon our literature , and traced the lines upon which its history must be written . Within the compass of an introduction such as this , it is not possible , nor even desirable , to pass in review all ...
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Página 497 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Página 450 - 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 44 - 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 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 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 379 - 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 584 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep...
Página 365 - 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 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...