A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A.C. McClurg, 1903 - 415 Seiten |
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... conversation and written letters afford an invaluable means of testing one's ideas by the ideas of others , if one has command of the me- dium of expression . Command of that medium , and the habit and practice of using it , I xiv Preface.
... conversation and written letters afford an invaluable means of testing one's ideas by the ideas of others , if one has command of the me- dium of expression . Command of that medium , and the habit and practice of using it , I xiv Preface.
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... conversation and business and social letter - writing . Therefore while we are reading essays for the intellectual pleasure that they give , we ought at the same time to be studying the method of each writer in using words , with a ...
... conversation and business and social letter - writing . Therefore while we are reading essays for the intellectual pleasure that they give , we ought at the same time to be studying the method of each writer in using words , with a ...
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... conversation raised to the level of per- manent literature . The addition to the possibil- ities of prose was one of the utmost importance , 1 The reader in looking over the dialogues of Plato will soon perceive that the lay characters ...
... conversation raised to the level of per- manent literature . The addition to the possibil- ities of prose was one of the utmost importance , 1 The reader in looking over the dialogues of Plato will soon perceive that the lay characters ...
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... conversation . He also picked up and recorded the epigrammatic or witty sayings of others . Realizing that some of these notes of his were excellent of their kind , he published them in the first edition of his " Essays . " In later ...
... conversation . He also picked up and recorded the epigrammatic or witty sayings of others . Realizing that some of these notes of his were excellent of their kind , he published them in the first edition of his " Essays . " In later ...
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... conversation of the wags and wits at the coffee - houses were com- municated to a much larger circle of friends . Addison , who had been brought up on the English Bible , was quick to see the value of this method . of literary ...
... conversation of the wags and wits at the coffee - houses were com- municated to a much larger circle of friends . Addison , who had been brought up on the English Bible , was quick to see the value of this method . of literary ...
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Seite xxv - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Seite xxvi - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite xxx - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Seite xxvi - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences...
Seite 256 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all selfabasement, penitence, gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Seite xxxi - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Seite 258 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Seite xxxviii - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Seite 64 - ... indefinable sweetness growing up to it —the tender blossoming of fat — fat cropped in the bud — taken in the shoot — in the first innocence — the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food — the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna — or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result or common substance. Behold him while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth, than...
Seite 255 - If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they felt assured that they were recorded in the Book of Life.