The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Band 34Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1855 |
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... learned editions of my labors , and bless the times with copious comments on the text . You shall see how they will fish up the heavy scoundrels who disregard me now . How will they bewail the times that suffered so much genius to be ...
... learned editions of my labors , and bless the times with copious comments on the text . You shall see how they will fish up the heavy scoundrels who disregard me now . How will they bewail the times that suffered so much genius to be ...
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... learned from it ; Johnson called it " mere fanciful performance ; " and Burke , in praising it , seems to have specified its pathos as its distinguishing merit . When Johnson said it was fanciful , he alluded , we presume , to the ...
... learned from it ; Johnson called it " mere fanciful performance ; " and Burke , in praising it , seems to have specified its pathos as its distinguishing merit . When Johnson said it was fanciful , he alluded , we presume , to the ...
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... learned his value , had ab- solute confidence in his talents and bravery , and it is certain that the young general had neglected nothing to make him worthy of this confidence . Before his departure he was known to be occupied at the ...
... learned his value , had ab- solute confidence in his talents and bravery , and it is certain that the young general had neglected nothing to make him worthy of this confidence . Before his departure he was known to be occupied at the ...
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... learned papers in the " Tatler , " and here was Foote's morning lounge ; while in the evening he sought the Bedford in Covent - bered dining with him in the Fleet within the garden , which had succeeded lately to the same year , in ...
... learned papers in the " Tatler , " and here was Foote's morning lounge ; while in the evening he sought the Bedford in Covent - bered dining with him in the Fleet within the garden , which had succeeded lately to the same year , in ...
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... learned men in Great Britain in seven years . Where now are the Oxfords and Halifaxes ? And then Foote introduced Mr. Cadwalla- der , the part which he played himself . Here was something in default of an Oxford or Halifax . Next to a ...
... learned men in Great Britain in seven years . Where now are the Oxfords and Halifaxes ? And then Foote introduced Mr. Cadwalla- der , the part which he played himself . Here was something in default of an Oxford or Halifax . Next to a ...
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Seite 148 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Seite 334 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 153 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 5 - THE MEMOIRS OF A PROTESTANT, CONDEMNED TO THE GALLEYS OF FRANCE FOR HIS RELIGION.
Seite 153 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 149 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Seite 152 - ... 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. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.
Seite 105 - Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Seite 19 - The king has lately been pleased to make me Professor of Ancient History in a royal Academy of Painting, which he has just established, but there is no salary annexed ; and I took it rather as a compliment to the institution than any benefit to myself. Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.
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