The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... knowledge of business , and no idea except that their money now produces nothing , and ought and must be forced immediately to produce something . " I wish , " said one of this class , " for the largest immediate income , and I am ...
... knowledge of business , and no idea except that their money now produces nothing , and ought and must be forced immediately to produce something . " I wish , " said one of this class , " for the largest immediate income , and I am ...
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... knowledge , the first exercise of reason , and a taste for books , which is still the pleasure and glory of my life ; and though she taught me neither language nor science , she was certainly the most useful preceptress I ever had . As ...
... knowledge , the first exercise of reason , and a taste for books , which is still the pleasure and glory of my life ; and though she taught me neither language nor science , she was certainly the most useful preceptress I ever had . As ...
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... knowledge from the perusal of a book , than you expect so great a result from spinning a peg - top . You spin the top , and you read the book ; and then that scene of life is exhausted . In such studies , of all prose perhaps the best ...
... knowledge from the perusal of a book , than you expect so great a result from spinning a peg - top . You spin the top , and you read the book ; and then that scene of life is exhausted . In such studies , of all prose perhaps the best ...
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... knowledge which we loved . In this second education the childhood of Gibbon had been very defective . He had never been placed under any rigid train- ing . In his first boyhood he disputed with his aunt , " that were I master of Greek ...
... knowledge which we loved . In this second education the childhood of Gibbon had been very defective . He had never been placed under any rigid train- ing . In his first boyhood he disputed with his aunt , " that were I master of Greek ...
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... knowledge of the world was confined to the University ; his learning was of the last , rather than of the present age ; his temper was indolent ; his faculties , which were not of the first rate , had been relaxed by the climate ; and ...
... knowledge of the world was confined to the University ; his learning was of the last , rather than of the present age ; his temper was indolent ; his faculties , which were not of the first rate , had been relaxed by the climate ; and ...
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Page 37 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 53 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 196 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 37 - But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised...
Page 375 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Page 358 - ... and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies.
Page 391 - Helen thy Bridgewater vie, And these be sung till Granville's Myra die : Alas ! how little from the grave we claim ! Thou but preserv'st a face, and I a name.
Page 375 - He must see ordinary men as they appear in their ordinary business, and in their ordinary pleasures. He must mingle in the crowds of the exchange and the coffee-house.
Page 404 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 391 - Years following years, steal something every day, At last they steal us from ourselves away; In one our frolics, one amusements end, In one a mistress drops, in one a friend...