Inaugural Discourse of Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P.: On Being Installed Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, Wednesday, April 6, 1825Printed at the University Press, by Andrew and John M. Duncan, 1825 - 51 páginas |
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Página 43 - As men will no longer suffer themselves to be led blindfold in ignorance, so will they no more yield to the vile principle of judging and treating their fellow creatures, not according to the intrinsic merit of their actions, but according to the accidental and involuntary coincidence of their opinions. The Great Truth has finally gone forth to all the ends of the earth, THAT MAN SHALL NO MORE RENDER ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR HIS BELIEF, OVER WHICH HE HAS HIMSELF NO CONTROL.
Página 22 - But the English writers who really unlock the rich sources of the language, are those who flourished from the end of Elizabeth's to the end of Queen Anne's reign ; who used a good Saxon dialect with ease, but correctness and perspicuity, — learned in the ancient classics, but only enriching their mother tongue where the Attic could supply its defects, — not overlaying it with a profuse pedantic coinage of foreign words, — well practised in the old rules of composition or rather collocation...
Página 42 - The more widely knowledge is spread, the more will they be prized whose happy lot it is to extend its bounds by discovering new truths, or multiply its uses by inventing new modes of applying it in practice. Their numbers will indeed be increased, and among them more Watts and more Franklins will be enrolled among the lights of the world, in proportion as more thousands of the working classes, to which Franklin and Watt belonged, have their thoughts turned towards philosophy ; but the order of discoverers...
Página 44 - The Great Truth has finally gone forth to all the ends of the earth, THAT MAN SHALL NO MORE RENDER ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR HIS BELIEF, OVER WHICH HE HAS HIMSELF NO CONTROL. Henceforward, nothing shall prevail upon us to praise or to blame any one for that which he can no more change 10 than he can the hue of his skin or the height of his stature.
Página 33 - Purgatorio; yet the poet is content with somewhat enlarging on a single thought — the tender recollections which that hour of meditation gives the traveller, at the fall of the first night he is to pass away from home, when he hears the distant knell of the expiring day. Gray adopts the idea of the knell in nearly the words of the original, and adds eight other circumstances to it, presenting a kind of...
Página 46 - And if the benefactors of mankind, when they rest from their pious labours, shall be permitted to enjoy hereafter, as an appropriate reward of their virtue, the privilege of looking down upon the blessings with which their toils and sufferings have clothed the scene of their former existence ; do not vainly imagine that, in a state of exalted purity and wisdom, the...
Página 37 - We may rest assured that the highest reaches of the art, and without any necessary sacrifice of natural effect, can only 40 be attained by him who well considers, and maturely prepares, and often-times sedulously corrects and refines his oration.
Página 14 - But though the more business-like manner of modern debate approaches much nearer the style of the Greek than the Latin compositions, it must be admitted that it falls short of the great originals in the closeness, and, as it were, density of the argument ; in the habitual sacrifice of all ornament to use, or rather in the constant union of the two ; so that, while a modern orator too frequently has his speech parcelled out...
Página 5 - ... impressions it thus receives,. to a degree unknown in after life ; while the distracting cares of the world, or its beguiling pleasures, cross not the threshold of these calm retreats ; its distant noise and bustle are faintly heard, making the shelter you enjoy more grateful ; and the struggles of anxious mortals embarked upon that troublous sea, are viewed from an eminence, the security of which is rendered more sweet by the prospect of the scene below.
Página 6 - ... the grosser pleasures of sense, whereof other men are slaves ; and so imbue yourselves with the sound philosophy of later days, forming yourselves to the virtuous habits which are its legitimate offspring, that you may walk unhurt through the trials which await you, and may look down upon the...