English Language and Literary Criticism: English prosePotter, 1883 |
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... observation of the style of expression employed by the greatest English writers can scarcely fail to lead to a finer appreciation of those pecul- iarities of discourse which lend beauty and strength and harmony and vivacity to our ...
... observation of the style of expression employed by the greatest English writers can scarcely fail to lead to a finer appreciation of those pecul- iarities of discourse which lend beauty and strength and harmony and vivacity to our ...
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... observation , he was by no means deficient in originality , and he sometimes produced independent records of great historical value . One of the earliest of these monastic chronicles is the work of Archbishop Turgot , entitled the ...
... observation , he was by no means deficient in originality , and he sometimes produced independent records of great historical value . One of the earliest of these monastic chronicles is the work of Archbishop Turgot , entitled the ...
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... observation , his audacity , and his good sense . They are just the sort of lively , dash- ing letters that we find in the correspondence of a modern . journal . There is the same modern tone in his political pamphlets ; his profusion ...
... observation , his audacity , and his good sense . They are just the sort of lively , dash- ing letters that we find in the correspondence of a modern . journal . There is the same modern tone in his political pamphlets ; his profusion ...
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... observation , an immense number of fables and legends which had been told him , and which , judging from his matter - of - fact tone and manner , he actu- ally believed to be true . Let us quote , for example , a brief passage which ...
... observation , an immense number of fables and legends which had been told him , and which , judging from his matter - of - fact tone and manner , he actu- ally believed to be true . Let us quote , for example , a brief passage which ...
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... observation , " says Hallam , " to distinguish it even from writings of the reign of Anne ; and where it differs from them ( I speak only of the secondary class of works , which have not much individuality of manner ) it is by a more ...
... observation , " says Hallam , " to distinguish it even from writings of the reign of Anne ; and where it differs from them ( I speak only of the secondary class of works , which have not much individuality of manner ) it is by a more ...
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Seite 344 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 417 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Seite 295 - 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 133 - His going forth is from the end of the heaven, And his circuit unto the ends of it : And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Seite 406 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Seite 520 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Seite 503 - 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.
Seite 384 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Seite 389 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Seite 74 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.