Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time: with an IntroductionH. G. Bohn, 1825 - 615 pages |
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... morals of the reader , and to embrace a series of passages which might rectify his opinions , inform his taste , and establish his principles . It is pre- sumed that if , in the course of education , the whole of this selection be ...
... morals of the reader , and to embrace a series of passages which might rectify his opinions , inform his taste , and establish his principles . It is pre- sumed that if , in the course of education , the whole of this selection be ...
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... morality . Who then can adequately measure the invaluable effects of this continual infusion of princi- ples so just , of ideas so magnificent , into the stream of public thought ? or question that much of the virtue , the intelligence ...
... morality . Who then can adequately measure the invaluable effects of this continual infusion of princi- ples so just , of ideas so magnificent , into the stream of public thought ? or question that much of the virtue , the intelligence ...
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... moral truth ; they embrace human nature in the past and the future , in its defects and excellences ; they supply principles for the government of empires , maxims for the regulation of common life , and seeds of thought which may ...
... moral truth ; they embrace human nature in the past and the future , in its defects and excellences ; they supply principles for the government of empires , maxims for the regulation of common life , and seeds of thought which may ...
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... moral and civil relations and duties of men ; records of the capacities and progress of the race to which they belonged ; reservoirs of political experience and practical wisdom . To these storehouses of ancient thought they freely ...
... moral and civil relations and duties of men ; records of the capacities and progress of the race to which they belonged ; reservoirs of political experience and practical wisdom . To these storehouses of ancient thought they freely ...
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... moral and religious truth in all their comprehensive relations ; places them in an end- less variety of lights ; confirms them by the strongest arguments , expands them by frequent illustration , and enforces them by energetic ...
... moral and religious truth in all their comprehensive relations ; places them in an end- less variety of lights ; confirms them by the strongest arguments , expands them by frequent illustration , and enforces them by energetic ...
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Page 87 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy, and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
Page 199 - I am now indented ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame memory and her siren daughters : but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 12 - But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
Page 451 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great original proclaim: Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 89 - 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 miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 61 - Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He tells the proud and insolent that they are but Abjects, and humbles them at the instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness.
Page 88 - To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business : it will be acknowledged, even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover...
Page 196 - John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 88 - For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore...
Page 86 - What is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief ; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.