Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and BaconGinn brothers, 1891 - 636 עמודים |
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TEXT-BK OF PROSE FROM BURKE WE <span dir=ltr>Henry Norman 1814-1886 Hudson</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
TEXT-BK OF PROSE FROM BURKE WE <span dir=ltr>Henry Norman 1814-1886 Hudson, Comp</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
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עמוד 584 - in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. That young men travel under some tutor or grave servant, I allow
עמוד 571 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs
עמוד 564 - and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates 6 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can
עמוד 621 - cometh to be sometimes improved, but seldom augmented. But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite
עמוד 583 - and as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation ; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute
עמוד 598 - the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly, lie that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory. He that questioneth much shall learn much, and content much, but especially if he apply his questions to the skill of the
עמוד 584 - the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant; the walls and fortifications of cities and towns ; and so the havens and harbours, antiquities and ruins, libraries, colleges, disputations, and lectures, where any are; shipping and navies ; houses and gardens of state and pleasure near great cities; armories, arsenals, magazines,
עמוד 587 - that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for, otherwise whatsoever is
עמוד 590 - and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna
עמוד 591 - Decimus Brutus had obtained that interest, as he set him down in his testament for heir in remainder after his nephew ; and this was the man that had power with him to draw him forth to his death: for when Ccesar would have discharged the Senate, in regard of some ill presages, and specially a