Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544; Subjects 571; Quotations, 8810J.B. Lippincott, 1880 - 764 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 76
עמוד 49
... language . a barbarous people . " In conversation with Sir " The boasted Athenians , " he said , " were barba- rians . The mass of every people must be bar- barous where there is no printing . " The fact was this : he saw that a ...
... language . a barbarous people . " In conversation with Sir " The boasted Athenians , " he said , " were barba- rians . The mass of every people must be bar- barous where there is no printing . " The fact was this : he saw that a ...
עמוד 53
... language and elegance of his style . He has , I think , a fine , easy , and diversified narrative , mixed with reflections , moral and political , neither very trite and obvious , nor out of the way and abstract ; which is , I think ...
... language and elegance of his style . He has , I think , a fine , easy , and diversified narrative , mixed with reflections , moral and political , neither very trite and obvious , nor out of the way and abstract ; which is , I think ...
עמוד 54
... language in verse before Boccace , who likewise received no little help from his master Petrarch ; but the reformation of their prose was wholly owing to Boccace . DRYDEN . Boccace lived in the same age with Chaucer , had the same ...
... language in verse before Boccace , who likewise received no little help from his master Petrarch ; but the reformation of their prose was wholly owing to Boccace . DRYDEN . Boccace lived in the same age with Chaucer , had the same ...
עמוד 65
... language , where he could spare or pass by a jest , was nobly censorious . No man ever spoke more neatly , more pressly , more weighty , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but ...
... language , where he could spare or pass by a jest , was nobly censorious . No man ever spoke more neatly , more pressly , more weighty , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but ...
עמוד 67
... language , and helps to convince by look and posture . JEREMY COLLIER . Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members , animated by a healthful constitution . Dryden's Dufresnoy , Pref . last but for a ...
... language , and helps to convince by look and posture . JEREMY COLLIER . Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members , animated by a healthful constitution . Dryden's Dufresnoy , Pref . last but for a ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
actions ADDISON admiration affections Aristotle atheist ATTERBURY beauty BEN JONSON better BURKE called cause character Christian Cicero COLTON conscience consider conversation death desire divine DRYDEN duty East India Bill Essay eternal evil eyes fear feel genius give greatest happiness hath heart heaven honour HOOKER Household Words human humour imagination JEREMY COLLIER JEREMY TAYLOR John Dryden JOHNSON judge judgment justice kind knowledge labour Lacon language learning liberty live LOCKE look LORD BACON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD MACAULAY man's mankind manner means ment Milton mind misery moral nature ness never object opinion ourselves passion perfection person Plato pleasure poet POPE principles reason religion ROBERT HALL sense society soul SOUTH Spectator spirit SWIFT Tatler temper things thought TILLOTSON tion true truth virtue WASHINGTON IRVING WATTS WHATELY whole wisdom wise writers
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 83 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragons' teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
עמוד 467 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
עמוד 47 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
עמוד 401 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
עמוד 351 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland...
עמוד 343 - But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory. God, who can only destroy our souls, and hath assured our resurrection, either of our bodies or names, hath directly promised no duration. Wherein there is so much of chance, that the boldest expectants have found unhappy frustration ; and to hold long subsistence, seems but a scape in oblivion. But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and...
עמוד 269 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
עמוד 399 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
עמוד 86 - There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language , no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
עמוד 410 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.