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... history of the Essay as a variety of prose literature . The annotation in this volume is brief and compact , intended merely to throw light on difficult passages . The selections are , it is hoped , of a representative character ; but.
... history of the Essay as a variety of prose literature . The annotation in this volume is brief and compact , intended merely to throw light on difficult passages . The selections are , it is hoped , of a representative character ; but.
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... light result of learning and meditation . " It is beyond the essayist's prov- ince to usurp the preacher's office or to play the part of tutor . He is quite content with a hint instead of a sermon , with a jest in place of a solemn ...
... light result of learning and meditation . " It is beyond the essayist's prov- ince to usurp the preacher's office or to play the part of tutor . He is quite content with a hint instead of a sermon , with a jest in place of a solemn ...
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... light upon me . " The Portuguese say that in a certain place of their conquest of the Indies , they met with soldiers , who had condemned themselves , with horrible exe- crations , to enter into no other composition but either to cause ...
... light upon me . " The Portuguese say that in a certain place of their conquest of the Indies , they met with soldiers , who had condemned themselves , with horrible exe- crations , to enter into no other composition but either to cause ...
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... is gone by , or it would be curious to inquire ( in a philosophical light merely ) what effect this process might have towards intenerating and dulcifying a substance , naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh 24 SELECTED ESSAYS.
... is gone by , or it would be curious to inquire ( in a philosophical light merely ) what effect this process might have towards intenerating and dulcifying a substance , naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh 24 SELECTED ESSAYS.
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... light Time , I used to weary out my head and eye- sight in by - gone winters . I walk , read , or scribble ( as now ) just when the fit seizes me . I no longer hunt after pleasure ; I let it come to me . I am like the man -that's born ...
... light Time , I used to weary out my head and eye- sight in by - gone winters . I walk , read , or scribble ( as now ) just when the fit seizes me . I no longer hunt after pleasure ; I let it come to me . I am like the man -that's born ...
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AGNES REPPLIER Al Sirat American humour appeared ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON athlete Bacon battle of Thapsus better called character CHARLES LAMB charm delight dream England English essayist essays father feel FRANCIS BACON gentleman give Guenever hand Hazlitt heart Heaven horses hour human humourist joke Julius Cæsar knowledge lady Lamb laugh laughter less literary literature live look manhood manner MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE mind Montaigne Montaigne's nature ness Nessus never night object once ourselves pass perhaps persons philosopher pleasure poor Postpaid prose ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Roman Saint Peter says school to college seems sense of study soul spirit student style sudden death talk teacher things THOMAS DE QUINCEY thou thought tion transition from school truth virtue whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wise words writer young youth
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Page 165 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 14 - 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.
Page 15 - 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, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 160 - And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant...
Page 15 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 16 - Bo-bo was in the utmost consternation, as you may think, not so much for the sake of the tenement, which his father and he could easily build up again with a few dry branches and the labour of an hour or two, at any time, as for the loss of the pigs.
Page 12 - Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than » for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business...
Page 22 - Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure — and for such a tomb might be content to die.
Page 20 - Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it.